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Hållbar omvandling av textilindustrin

Hur kan textilindustrin bli mer hållbar? Genom att anta cirkulära modeller, material med låg påverkan och effektiv tillverkning. Spinnova, ett digitalt företag från Finland, har utvecklat en unik lösning i samarbete med Siemens, med hjälp av teknik från Siemens Xcelerator-portföljen.

Hur man löser det naturliga fibergapet

Textilindustrin står inför en växande efterfrågan på naturfibrer och hållbar produktion. Spinnova möter båda med en process som använder minimalt med vatten och energi, undviker skadliga kemikalier och minskar CO₂. Spinnovas teknik gör det möjligt för kunder att producera textilfiber från cellulosaråvaror genom en process som efterliknar hur spindlar väver sina nät. Detta unika tillvägagångssätt resulterar i fibrer som ser ut och känns som naturliga fibrer.

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

Snabbare tid till marknad

En fullständig fabrikssimulering modellerar alla linjer, maskiner, produktionsområden, receptinformation och materialflöden. Dessa optimeringar förkortar idrifttagningstiden och möjliggör operatörsutbildning innan produktionen startar.

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

Konsekvent kvalitet

Spinnova använder en Digital Twin av produkten för att undersöka, designa, optimera och anpassa de slutliga produktformuleringarna. Detta säkerställer jämn kvalitet från råmaterial hela vägen till den färdiga fibern.

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

Global skalbarhet

Spinnova strävar efter att producera hållbara fibrer där de behövs som mest. Med Siemens globala teknik och expertis är Spinnova redo att fundamentalt förändra textilindustrins fotavtryck.

Sustainability i praktiken

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

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