Ioncell makes clothing out of birch and recycled materials

Ilkka Kilpeläinen & Jari Laine / Ioncell

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Two Finnish universities are together developing Ioncell, a technology that produces textiles from birch or spruce trees, or even cardboard boxes. ...

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