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Based in Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Spinnova employs 10 experts. Spinnova’s patented technology is said to save water, energy and chemicals, making wood-based textile fibre significantly more ecological than cotton or the current man-made fibres. Spinnova’s objective is to globally commercialise pulp-based textile fibre. Spinnova is a Finnish wood fibre company that develops ecological technology for manufacturing pulp-based textile fibre.

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Edwin Keh Yee-man, chief executive of the publicly funded Hong Kong Research Institute for Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA), which developed the plant’s recycling system, said the move would put the city’s textiles industry back on the map and boost the “made in Hong Kong” mark. He said that, "We could have opened (this mill) in China, 10 times its current size," Also,"But we decided to do it in Hong Kong to prove two things – that we can solve our local textile waste problem locally, and that in such a small, compact city, sustainable (textile recycling) is feasible."

Related Keywords: block printing cluster, cluster production, common effluent treatment plant, ground water saving, Handicrafts Mega Cluster Mission, Ministry of Textiles, Nitra, textile environment policy, Textile industry in India, textile investments, textile recycling, textile waste, Union Textile Minister

Union Textile Minister, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, joined the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP) designed by NITRA at Ajrakhpur, Bhuj (Gujarat) on 18th March 2017.

The 150 KLD CETP project has been assigned to NITRA for implementation by Ministry of Textiles through Handicrafts Mega Cluster Mission (HMCM). NITRA designed a modern treatment scheme integrated with water reclamation for the CETP.

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Major fashion retailer H&M is on a mission to save fashion from ending up in landfills, and its closed-loop textile recycling initiative with I:CO is the first step in doing so. As the fashion industry is said to be the second dirtiest industry in the world, second only to big oil.

Related Keywords: Federation of Finnish Textile and Clothing Industries, Finland, landfill, liquefying textile waste, new method, Textile production, textile recycling, textile waste material, treatment method, VTT Technical Research Centre

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is currently developing methods for handling large quantities of textile waste material. New and efficient methods will be able to recover cellulose molecules, providing one way of resolving the limitations soon to be placed on the use of landfill sites. Such methods will also serve to promote the efficient use of materials. The liquefying of textile waste offers the opportunity to return large volumes of waste to textile production.