Specialist producer of fibre recycled from leather waste, Spinnova, has revealed that it will earn €2.5 million for its work on the proof-of-concept phase of the idea.

Finland-based Spinnova has been working since 2014 to perfect a technique based on fibre-suspension for producing useable fibres from wood pulp, a by-product from the paper industry. Earlier in 2021, it announced that it was able to use waste from the leather industry too, specifically wet blue shavings, to make fibres that can be spun into yarn and woven into material for shoe uppers and other products.

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