Finnish textile innovator Infinited Fiber Company (IFC) has earned recycled content certification from third-party validation and verification company SCS Global Services for its Infinna fibre.
The certification recognises that IFC’s fibre contains a minimum of 99 percent post-consumer recycled content, validation which the company will be able to leverage when marketing its in-demand product.
“We use cotton-rich post-consumer textile waste as the sole raw material in the production of our regenerated Infinna textile fibre at our pilot facilities, and having validated external proof of this in the form of the SCS Global recycled content certification is a big milestone for us,” commented IFC Co-Founder and CEO, Petri Alava.
Infinited Fiber’s chemical recycling technology claims to turn cellulose-based raw materials, such as cotton-rich textile waste, into premium-quality regenerated textile fibre with the look and feel of cotton.
Infinna is biodegradable, contains no microplastics, and at the end of life, garments made with it can be recycled in the same process together with other textile waste.
SCS – which grants certification to any product containing at least five percent recycled content – independently verifies the sustainability credentials of products sold within the textile sector, and their seal of approval corroborates Infinited Fiber’s marketing claims.
“We’re thrilled to have received this recognition as it is something we can share with partners and collaborators as we work towards conserving natural resources, stopping waste from being wasted, and making textile circularity an everyday reality,” noted Alava.
Within the last 12 months alone, IFC has secured orders from Bestseller, Ganni and Zalando, amongst others, as brands continue to demonstrate their appetite to adopt more ‘sustainable’ materials.
Zalando and Infinited Fiber have also signed a letter of intent which will see Zalando provide raw materials to IFC in the future, which can subsequently be used as feedstock within the Finnish firm’s operations.
At present, IFC is building a new, bigger plant in its homeland from which it’s expected to produce upwards of 30,000 metric tonnes of Infinna fibre per year.
