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Transformación sostenible de la industria textil

¿Cómo puede la industria textil ser más sostenible? Adoptando modelos circulares, materiales de bajo impacto y una fabricación eficiente. Spinnova, una empresa digital de Finlandia, ha desarrollado una solución única en colaboración con Siemens, y, para ello, utilizó tecnología de la cartera de Siemenes Xcelerator.

Cómo resolver la brecha de fibras naturales

La industria textil se enfrenta a una creciente demanda de fibras naturales y de producción sostenible. Spinnova cumple con ambos requisitos con un proceso que utiliza un mínimo de agua y energía, evita los productos químicos dañinos y reduce el CO₂. La tecnología de Spinnova permite a los clientes producir fibra textil a partir de materias primas de celulosa mediante un proceso que imita la forma en que las arañas tejen sus telarañas. Este enfoque único da como resultado fibras que tienen un aspecto y un tacto similares a las fibras naturales.

A visual representation of a modern, sleek, and eco-friendly textile manufacturing process.

Faster ramp-up from piloting to commercial production

Siemens technology reduces Spinnova’s time to market

Tiempo de comercialización más rápido

Una simulación de fábrica completa modela todas las líneas, máquinas, áreas de producción, información de recetas y flujos de materiales. Estas optimizaciones acortan el tiempo de puesta en marcha y permiten la formación de los operadores antes de que comience la producción.

Siemens technology ensures consistent high quality of Spinnova’s fiber production

Calidad constante

Spinnova utiliza un gemelo digital del producto para investigar, diseñar, optimizar y alinear las formulaciones del producto final. Esto garantiza una calidad constante desde la materia prima hasta la fibra acabada.

Spinnova leverages IT-OT convergence for real-time data analysis, optimizing energy, reducing errors, and increasing uptime

Escalabilidad global

El objetivo de Spinnova es producir fibras sostenibles donde más se necesitan. Con la tecnología y la experiencia globales de Siemens, Spinnova está preparada para cambiar de forma radical la huella de la industria textil.

Sostenibilidad en acción

Juha Salmela from Spinnova holding a piece of fabric with a blurry background.

Turning wood pulp into fibers

Spinnova is transforming the way textiles are manufactured globally. According to the UN, the fashion industry generates 92 million tons of waste annually. Spinnova innovates and develops the breakthrough patented technology for making textile fibers that are much more sustainable compared to, for example, conventional cotton.

Spinnova’s technology enables customers – raw material producers, fiber producers, and textile industry players – to produce textile fiber from variety of cellulosic raw materials through a mechanical process that mimics how spiders weave their webs. This unique production process results in fibers that look and feel similar to natural fibers such as cotton and linen.

A digital-first, data-driven approach

As a sustainable Digital Enterprise, Spinnova offers fiber producing technology that has a low carbon footprint and hardly uses any water. With a digital-first mindset, the company combines the real and digital worlds with software and a harmonized automation system from the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio to design, realize and optimize its product and production processes.

Data is key, and our technology such as Industrial Edge enables Spinnova to converge IT and OT data to track KPIs like energy consumption in near real-time and make them transparent to customers and partners. At the Woodspin factory, Spinnova demonstrates its technology on an industrial scale.

Spinnova is a sustainable Digital Enterprise with a digital-first approach

Building a success story based on true partnership at eye level

The main challenge to producing their fiber on an industrial scale was the lack of existing technology. Spinnova had to develop ways to automate and control the processes, create quality metrics and set standards. Working with us, from the pilot to an industrial demonstration factory, helped overcome the technology hurdles and scale up production faster.

Spinnova uses our automation hardware, instrumentation, drives, motors, simulation software, engineering software, and Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) solutions. We developed the OT network in collaboration with Spinnova, and it is protected by our holistic cybersecurity concept to secure production and IP.

At Oxford University, I heard about the similarities between spider silk and nanofibrillated cellulose. I wanted to create the exact same flow of fibers that happens inside the spider, but only using wood fibers.
Juha Salmela, Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder, Spinnova