Infinited Fiber: regenerating cotton-rich textile waste into Infinna™ textile fibres

Infinited Fiber
Infinited Fiber
Organisation or Company
Infinited Fiber
Type of organisation or company
Business
Country
Finland
City
Espoo
Language for original content
English
Key Area
Secondary raw materials,
Innovation and investments
Project elaborated in partnership
No
Sector
Clothing and Fashion industry,
Industrial techniques,
Recycling,
Textiles, apparel and leather
Scope
International
Ongoing
Yes
Type of funding
Private-public
Description

Infinited Fiber is a fashion and textile technology group on a mission to make textile circularity an everyday reality. Its technology stops waste from being wasted by capturing the valuable resources in discarded textiles and regenerating them into new, high-quality textile fibres with the look and feel of cotton.

The new fibres are called Infinna™, a virgin-quality textile fibre regenerated 100% from cotton-rich textile waste. The fibres are made of cellulose – a building block of all plants – meaning they are biodegradable and contain no plastics. Infinna™ is versatile like cotton, making it a circular alternative to conventional virgin fibres for a whole range of fabrics from single jersey and French terry to denim and woven fabrics. Infinna™ is also well-suited for nonwoven applications such as soft hygiene products and wipes.

It can be used on its own for fabrics regenerated 100% from textile waste, and it blends beautifully with conventional fibres like cotton. No special equipment is needed to process it into yarns and fabrics. At the end of their lifecycle, textiles made with Infinna™ can be regenerated in the same process alongside cotton-rich textile waste.

Infinna™ also saves water: producing the fibres to make one t-shirt with Infinna™ takes almost 90% less water than producing a similar amount of conventional cotton.

The company is working to build the first commercial-scale circular Infinna™ fibre factory, with an annual production capacity of 30 000 metric tons of Infinna™.

Main activity field
Manufacturing
Other service activities
Professional, scientific and technical activities
Identified challenge (s)
Behavioural change (Difficulty to ramp-up production quickly enough to meet the massive demand for Infinna™ and the reliable supply of sufficient amount of high-quality sorted textile waste)
Lack of circular infrastructure
Quantity issues
Main results

By regenerating new Infinna™ textile fibres from textile waste, Infinited Fiber:

  • reduces the textile industry’s burden on the Earth's natural resources,
  • decreases the amount of textile waste ending up in landfills and incinerators,
  • enables the textile industry to raise the proportion of textile fibres created from pre- and post-consumer textile waste,
  • offers viscose producers a new, carbon disulfide-free circular textile fibre to add to their range through technology licensing,
  • provides the textile industry with a plastic-free and biodegradable, high-quality textile fibre that supports the shift from a wasteful, linear production model to a more sustainable circular one.