Finland
Stora Enso’s formed fiber: Designed for the circular bioeconomy
Stora Enso believes that while circularity is vital, renewable materials will need to replace fossil-based materials to create a circular bioeconomy. PureFiber is Stora Enso’s next generation formed fiber product that can be produced in almost any ...
Touchpoint Oy: Sustainable workwear and closed loop service model
TouchPoint is a Finnish workwear company using eco-materials such as fabrics made from recycled raw materials, cutting waste or regenerated fibres and is utilizing surplus materials. TouchPoint offers full service model from design, managing the enti...
Spinnova: Bio-based textile fibre
Spinnova is a fibre technology company, developing textile fibre directly out of biomaterials without harmful chemical processes or dissolving. The raw material of the fibre is pulp that is made of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified wood or w...
Neste's Green Travel
In cooperation with Neste, Savonlinja is introducing a surcharge, called Green Journey, on the normal bus ticket price. The customer is free to decide the amount of this additional charge. Savonlinja will use the money collected through the Green Jo...
Infinited Fiber: New Sustainable Fiber Production Technology
Infinited Fiber (IFC) is a Finnish company developing and commercializing a patented Cellulose Carbamate technology. Cellulose Carbamate (CCA) technology enables producing cotton-like, sustainable fibre out of post-consumer textile waste, cardboard w...
Pumpa Upcycle - upcycled textiles made of waste
Instead of getting thrown away and burnt, useless textiles are received by Pumpa Design Oy and are upcycled into new products: dog/cat beds, grocery bags, bags and pouches in different sizes. Textile waste comes from waste collection companies / orga...
Fluid Intelligence
Fluid Intelligence Oy is a Finnish limited liability company led by a team of experienced oil specialists and machine learning experts. The company, a member of Cleantech Finland hub, has been quickly recognised as an established expert in the field ...
Finlayson's Rag Rugs
Finlayson business model is based on collecting used bed sheets and recycling them into rag rugs. The company began collecting home textiles in its shops, but also brought recycling within reach of customers by using its online store: customers who h...
Pure Waste Textiles’ fully recyclable clothes
Pure Waste Textiles manufactures completely recycled yarns, fabrics, clothing and accessories from the leftover material by the textile industry at its production plant in India, which is currently under construction. The company uses cutting waste f...
Biominerals Finland's earth alkalizing bio- and waste incineration fly ashes in ...
Hundreds of thousands tons of fly ashes from wood, field cultivation residues, peat and waste incineration processes are landfilled or applied in low value applications in Finland. Earth alkalising the fly ashes, formed inside the combustion proces...
Metsä Group's Industrial Symbiosis in the Forest Industry
An industrial ecosystem at Äänekoski, Finland concretizes the circular economy with valuable synergies. The industrial ecosystem in Äänekoski, Finland, generates added value by using wood-based and other resources wisely in cooperation with part...
VALTRA's remanufactured spare parts
VALTRA, a tractor manufacturer, has found ways of generating new growth from service-based business models typical of the circular economy by providing maintenance services across Europe. As part of this concept, Valtra has developed so-called remanu...
Metsä Group's Sidestreams Program in the Forest Industry
Metsä Group uses all raw materials as efficiently as possible. All materials do not end up in our end products but are industrial side streams. Industrial sidestreams are valuable raw materials that are efficiently used either by us or our business ...
Fortum Ekokem's Integrated Circular Economy village in Finland
A combination of waste sorting and recycling facilities which aims to increase the recycling and recovery rate of waste operates in Riihimäki, Finland. This unity is called the Circular Economy Village. It consists of a sorting facility of mixed was...
Dafecor’s recycling and reuse of industrial textiles
Dafecor is one of the few companies utilising textile waste on an industrial scale in Finland. Dafecor acts as a partner to several parties. It takes the leftover materials from textile production and waste textiles from the public sector, laundries ...
Kemira's industrial symbiosis in Sweden
Industry Park of Sweden (IPOS) is an industrial park owned and operated by Kemira in Helsingborg, Sweden. The business idea of IPOS is industrial symbiosis. In other words, by innovative resource co-operations create added value to reduce costs and e...
Metsä Group's Fresh Fibre Enables Fibre Circulation
The role of fresh forest fibre in circular economy and recycling loop. The key idea of circular economy is to use materials as efficiently as possible and more than once. In Europe, fibre-based packaging is one of the most efficiently recovered and r...
Borealis' off-spec polymers reuse program
Off-spec polymer is polymer that doesn’t meet the specifications that Borealis aims for its clients. This off-spec polymer is a result of production interruptions and might appear as powder (polymerisation unit), pellets or globs (extrusion unit). ...