Sustainable textile systems: Co-creating resource-wise business for Finland in global textile networks
We need a sustainability revolution
in how we make, use and dispose of textiles.
The Finix project produces new scientific research on sustainability aspects of textile systems.
Based on that Finix helps co-creating resource-wise textile business in Finland in ways that promote global sustainable development.
Finix aims to make scientific breakthroughs in several core areas:
Producing textile fibers from recycled cellulose-based material through the Ioncell process, in the detection and removal of impurities from the material and providing a proof-of-concept of industrially viable textile-to-textile upcycling.
Producing a state-of art, feasible information system for storing and tracing the material information of textiles throughout their lifecycle.
Formulating new design strategies for different lifetimes of textiles, powered by new materials and digital innovations.
New breakthroughs in the area of managing circular economy, including a better understanding of service-intensive and systemic business models and business models under decreasing consumption as well as novel business ecosystems that balance the interests of private ownership and public resources.
Scrutinizing the sustainability impacts of the current and future textiles system, including the impacts of the studied material and digital innovations. Novel scientific knowledge on how proactive policies can support a transition to circular textiles system.
Currently worthless materials become valuable through sorting, treatment and processing technologies. They enable upcycling textile waste, using agricultural and other waste for fibre-making, and closing chemical loops.
Development of digital technologies for tracking and traceability make possible design for multiple lifetimes and new service-intensive business models.
With new forms of ecosystem governance, these make up a textile system, where fibres remain in circulation through long use lives.
Finix works in interaction with people, businesses, NGOs and public sector.
Finix aims at broadening stakeholders’ minds into thinking holistically about the entire life cycle of textiles and changing the way we value textiles.
Ioncell-menetelmällä tehdyn kuidun vetolujuus oli jopa 2,5-kertainen puuvillaan verrattuna. Kierrätetystä hampusta tehty Ioncell-neulos kesti hankausta kaksi kertaa kauemmin kuin hamppukangas.
Verkkotapahtumassa keskustellaan siitä, mitä kuluttajan olisi hyvä tietää tekstiileistä, erilaisista väriaineista sekä muoveista, ja kuinka materiaalivalinnat vaikuttavat tuotteiden kestävyyteen ja kierrätykseen. Entä mitä voimme vaatia yrityksiltä, kun haluamme nopeuttaa siirtymistä kohti kiertotaloutta?
Järjestämme kaksi Shades of Green -instrumenttiin tutustuttavaa ja kehitykseen osallistavaa työpajaa yritysten edustajille ja muille tekstiilimuodin vastuullisuuskysymysten kanssa toimiville.
Solid background in industrial and academic sustainability work. Expertise in sustainability strategies, life cycle approaches and the practical applicability of circular economy business models. Special interest areas cover transparency, digitalization, stakeholder dialogue and sustainability risk management.
Expertise in software engineering, systems engineering and data management, as well as digital transformation in industrial setting.
Areas of specialization: transition to sustainability, legal innovations, proactive law and proactive contracting, empirical research regarding contracting, value chain management, corporate social responsibility and legislative and regulatory research.
Managing Director of Heureka Science Center.
