Circularity & resources

Management Approach

Advancing circularity in the industry and within Lenzing itself is one of the three core principles of Lenzing’s “Naturally positive” sustainability strategy
Improved resource efficiency in order to stay competitive in terms of costs and upcoming legal requirements
Providing new business opportunities
Being prepared for upcoming societal challenges (climate change, resource scarcity, textile waste and recycling, etc.)

Creating new product offerings and business models to help the industry to change
Optimizing the eco-footprint of the Lenzing products
Optimizing the value Lenzing generates via the environmental responsible products it supplies
Lowering emissions by closing energy and material loops
Replacing products that cause end-of-life pollution (e.g. microplastics contamination) with biodegradable alternatives
Valorizing biorefinery products
Decreasing use of virgin raw materials
Driving innovation on recycling and optimizing closed loop processes
Joining forces and sharing know-how within partnerships for systemic change

Transitional risks due to changing legislation and stakeholder expectations (NGOs, customers)
Increasing ecological footprint due to less efficient production steps and waste streams

sCore TEN specialization strategy and net-benefit thinking are a guiding light for circular economy innovations
“Naturally positive” sustainability strategy with “Advancing circularity” as one of its three major principles and “Partnering for systemic change” focus area
Lenzing Group Environmental Standard
Lenzing Waste Management Guideline

Environmental management system based on ISO 14001:2015 (including risk assessment and internal audits to ensure effectiveness of the measures implemented)

Advancing circularity in the Lenzing Group
Strategy to grow with REFIBRA™ and Eco Cycle technology
Developing technologies for post-consumer cellulosic recycling
Establishing partnerships and collaboration to drive the circularity topic in the industry
Increasing Lenzing’s specialty and forward-solution portfolio (net-benefit products)
All sites need to comply with the Group Environmental Standards
Establishing best practices to improve waste management and reduce the risks related to waste management
Developing new biobased biorefinery products
Developing fiber applications to replace products that cause end-of-life pollution (e.g. microplastics contamination) with biodegradable alternatives
Enhancing the sustainability performance of the biobased biorefinery product portfolio (e.g. carbon neutral LENZING™ Acetic Acid Biobased)
Supporting, contributing to and implementing the EU Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) and EU Textile Strategy
Helping to reduce waste streams in the textile and nonwovens value chains

Strategic investments in pulp and fiber projects fully on track despite COVID-19
Collaboration signed with Södra to jointly install a process for post-consumer cellulosic recycling
Targets for textile recycling on track
Lenzing intensified its collaboration with leading stakeholders and initiatives
Partner in the newly founded Christian Doppler Laboratory for a recycling-based circular economy
Contribution to supply chain transparency to facilitate circular economy projects
Viscose defined as non-plastic in the European Single-Use Plastics Directive (SUPD) (Directive (EU) 2019/904)
Results of marine biodegradation study published

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