Meet our European fibre to fibre textile recycling partners operating at scale
iinouiio
(an acronym for It Is Never Over Until It Is Over)
iinouiio are leading the way for wool recycling, working at scale to take post-consumer and manufacturers waste and convert it into a range of fibres, yarns and fabrics.
Their aim is to demonstrate and promote responsible textile materials and methods, breathing new life into discarded textiles, whilst demonstrating what is possible with wool and luxury fibre recycling in the UK.
In March 2022, they became part of Camira Group – a global fabric manufacturer with a far-reaching and longstanding commitment to environmental stewardship. This has enabled them to preserve and re-energise the heritage, corporate responsibility and commercial opportunities offered by the oldest textile circular economy that began in the UK over two hundred years ago.
OnceMore®
OnceMore® is a part of Södra Group, Sweden’s largest forest owners’ association, which has a world leading industry that processes forest raw material into renewable products.
OnceMore® produce high-quality dissolving pulp made of blended textile waste and wood from sustainably managed Swedish forests.
It is a chemical recycling process that first separates the cotton from the polyester. The cotton fibres are then combined with the renewable wood cellulose from their sustainably managed forests to create a high-quality cellulose pulp that can be used to make new textiles. The separated polyester is incinerated to create energy that drives the OnceMore® process.
Today, OnceMore® is produced from 20% recycled textile waste and 80% renewable wood, however the goal is to offer a pulp from 50% wood material and 50% recycled textile material.
OnceMore® is produced at one of Södra’s three Mill’s in the southern part of Sweden.
