STOCKHOLM – Renewcell, the Swedish textile-to-textile recycling pioneer, is already in a sold-out situation.

The company only commenced construction of its first plant in July 2021 and inaugurated it in November this year, but during December it has sold the last of its planned annual 60,000 tons of production in 2025.

During 2021, the company announced a long term commercial collaboration with Kelheim Fibres and has now signed an agreement with Lenzing, which will purchase up to 80,000 to 100,000 tons of Renewcell’s 100% recycled textile Circulose dissolving pulp over a five-year period,

Circulose is made from 100% textile waste such as old jeans and production scraps into dissolving pulp which can be turned into new high-quality textiles and nonwovens.

“We’re only getting started,” said Patrik Lundström, CEO of Renewcell. “With the support of our partners we’ll scale to recycle the equivalent of 1.8 billion t-shirts by 2030 initially by doubling the recycling capacity at our first plant in Sweden.”