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Wheat straw gets a wearable makeover

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heat straw, long regarded as agricultural waste, is getting a makeover as a unique
textile. The first knitted T-shirt, jacket and skirt were introduced in October 2019 at
the Textile Exchange Sustainability Conference in Vancouver, Canada. The pieces featured
the woven material on organic cotton warp.
The prototype textile is highly sustainable due to its extremely low environmental
impact from raw material extraction, processing and manufacture. Developed jointly
by Fortum, a European energy company, and Spinnova, a sustainable fiber technology
company, the textile provides an application for wheat straw, which is normally discarded
or even burned in the fields.
The two companies began by testing various biomasses. The straw was first processed
with highly sustainable fractionation technology, developed by Fortum's associate
company Chempolis Oy. Spinnova's technology, presently in a piloting phase, turns
microfibrillated cellulose directly into fiber mechanically without any dissolving or
harmful chemical processes. Fibers of the clothing were produced in Spinnova's pilot
facility in Finland.
The goal of the two companies is to establish sustainable fiber production in Fortum's
future biorefineries that will use residual biomasses such as agricultural waste. The
refineries will be based on fractionation technology, enabling highly resource-efficient
utilization of wheat straw. For more information, visit www.spinova.com.

The eco-friendly process to create fabric
from wheat straw, developed by Spinnova
and Fortum, can also be applied to various
biomasses without further technology
development. Photo: Spinnova.

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