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Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto: End-of-life textile refinement plant to advance circular economy
Lounais-Suomen Jätehuolto (LSJH) builds a full-scale, end-of-life textile refinement plant in Turku, Finland. When the plant is ready, Finland will be the first country in the world where post-consumer textiles are obtained nationwide for reuse and recycling.
€5.2 m
in funding
20.5 m
total investment
2025
estimated start of operations
Key numbers
About the project
The refinement plant is aimed to process household end-of-life textiles that the local waste management companies have collected from their respective regions. LSJH is responsible for organising the collection within Southwest Finland as well as for coordinating and developing a national model of operation for the collection of post-consumer textiles. This will be done in collaboration with other municipality-owned waste management companies in Finland.
Impact of the project:
The end-of-life textile refinement plant is estimated to employ approximately 100 people by 2025. Based on the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland’s calculation, the new textile ecosystem is estimated to create as many as 17,000 new jobs in Finland.
Funding instrument Business Finland
Spinverse’s role
Specialised in innovation management and management consulting, Spinverse funding experts supported LSJH in preparing their successful funding application for Business Finland.
Collaboration with Spinverse during the project application phase was very smooth and for its part, helped us at LSJH to achieve this important milestone to accelerate the circular economy for post-consumer end-of-life textiles..
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