Renewcell/Inovafil/Saurer
(Source: Renewell/Saurer)
Visitors to the ITMA 2023 in Milan can experience what happens when 3 innovative companies which are all focusing on increasing sustainability in the textile value chain, meet, and decide to showcase how a new innovative sustainable fiber is turned into yarn. Renewcell’s circulose fiber, prepared by Inovafil for Saurer, is being spun simultaneously in 3 different spinning applications: air, rotor and on selected days also on ring, at the Saurer stand.
The ITMA 2023 motto “Transforming the World of Textiles” is well chosen, as the upcoming European Union (EU) directives as part of the EU textile vision 2030 set a framework for driving positive change and creating a more sustainable and resilient textile sector within the EU. The textile industry will look for new sustainable solutions and new business models.
One of the frontrunners in new textile recycling development is Renewcell AB, Stockholm/Sweden. Through its patented process, the company is able to recycle cellulosic rich textile waste, such as worn-out cotton clothes and production scraps, transforming it into a new material called Circulose which is then processed to fibers and spun into new yarn for textile production.
Inovafil Fiação, S.A., Vila Nova de Famalicão/Portugal, is one of the spinners in the early stages of commercialization. The company’s CEO Rui Martins set up a platform to promote partnerships for closed loop textile projects and to generate groundbreaking ideas for new textile applications. Inovafil uses Saurer’s Autocoro rotor spinning machine for recycled fibers.
For decades, sustainability has been an important part of Saurer's vision for the future. As the only manufacturer of spinning machinery for all 5 end-spinning application for staple fiber, Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG, Übach-Palenberg/Germany, is already prepared for processing recycled and regenerated fibers. When the company launched the new air-spinning machines Autoairo for field tests, it relied on Inovafil’s expertise for the continuous development. Recognizing the potential for highest processing efficiency, Inovafil was spinning viscose made with Circulose successfully on Autoairo.
Circulose = registered trademark
