LENZING Group, a world-class global textile manufacturer providing regenerated cellulose fiber (regenerated cellulosic fibers) or special wood-based and environmentally friendly fibers for the needs of the textile and industrial industries non-wovenreleased Annual and Sustainability Report 2023 or the 2023 Annual and Sustainability Report for the first time.
The report entitled “Ready to join?” This is a form of the company’s commitment to social and environmental responsibility. Through this report, Lenzing invites all customers and partners to participate in transforming the textile industry and non-woven and create positive changes for the environment. The report “Ready to join? It is also available in digital form and can be downloaded via the website reports.lenzing.com.
“This annual report also invites everyone to find solutions together. Lenzing always strives to create more business sustainable and transforming the textile business model from that linear become circular, especially in the countries where we operate. To make this happen, further efforts from the entire industry are needed. Policies that support levels playing field for sustainability pioneers it is also important. We hope this report will provide useful information. I hope our innovative projects can inspire and encourage us all to re-establish business structures and processes. “Let’s bring positive change together,” said Stephan Sielaff, CEO of Lenzing Group.
Lenzing has invested more than EUR 200 million over the past few years to modernize production facilities in China and Indonesia. In 2023, the company will upgrade its machines to increase its production capacity for environmentally friendly fibers and significantly reduce its carbon footprint. Lenzing also succeeded in obtaining EU Ecolabel certification for two products, namely viscose fiber called Lenzing™ Ecovero™ and Veocell™ fiber which is produced in Indonesia.
In addition, Lenzing has succeeded in achieving progress in its efforts to realize sustainability and mitigate climate change on its sustainability and climate targets. For example, the company succeeded in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by up to 19% (for categories 1, 2 and 3) compared to 2021 and reduced specific sulfur emissions by up to 58% compared to 2014.
In order to support the policies contained in the Paris Agreement and limit global temperature rise to 1.5o Celsius, Lenzing has just prepared the latest corporate climate targets. These climate targets have been reviewed and recognized by the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), which is an independent international scientific institution in the field of climate change mitigation.
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With this, Lenzing becomes the world’s first regenerative cellulose fiber producer with a scientifically supported net-zero target. By 2030, Lenzing aims to reduce fiber and pulp factory production emissions (category 1) and emissions from energy (category 2) by up to 42%, as well as reduce indirect emissions in the supply chain (category 3) by up to 25%. This initiative started in 2021. All this is equivalent to a reduction in emissions of 1,100,000 tons (compared to the previous target of 700,000 tons).
Transformation towards a circular economy
In line with the “Better Growth” strategy, Lenzing also continues to encourage recycling activities to accelerate the transformation of the textile and nonwovens industry from a linear to a circular economic model. Lenzing has proactively developed and driven innovations over the years to provide economical and scalable solutions to the global textile waste problem.
Since 2021, Lenzing has collaborated with Södra, the manufacturer pulp from Sweden, to develop a new process for recycling used textiles that can be applied at an industrial level. This project is supported by a grant of EUR 10 million from the European Union (EU) and is part of the LIFE 2022 program.
In addition, Lezing has set a new standard in textile product development by expanding the use of Refibra™ technology which now includes Lenzing™ Ecovero™ fiber. Viscose fiber produced using Refibra™ technology contains up to 20% recycled material made from cellulose or polyester-cotton blends. With the success of this development and production scale-up, Lenzing™ Ecovero™ fiber produced using Refibra™ technology is now available to customers worldwide.
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