Lenzing

Lenzing, Austria

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No Known High Risk

1. Completion of CanopyStyle Third Party Verification Audits

1.1 Undertaking Annual Audits

1.2 Audits Public and Results Acted On

1.3 Audit Risk Results

2. Contribution to Conservation Legacies

2.1 Public support web/panels

2.2 International conservation

2.3 Influences Decision Makers

2.4 Legislated Protection

2.5 Extra Respon­sibilities

3. Innovation via New Alternative Fibers

3.1 Partnerships

3.2 R&D Investments

3.3 Scaling to Commercial Products

3.4 Targets & Timelines

3.5 10% of pulp is NG

3.6 Contributing to Collective Goal

3.7 Aggressively Increasing Commercial Scale

4. Adoption of Robust Forest Sourcing Policy

4.1 Policy Adoption

4.2 Policy Meets All CanopyStyle Criteria

5. Traceability, Transparency, and Sustainable Sourcing

5.1 Track & Trace System In-Place

5.2 Public Sharing of Supplier List

5.3 Conducts Due Diligence

6. Leaders in Supply Chain Shifts

6.1 Proactive outreach/ Inspires Leadership

6.2 FSC Preference

6.3 Forest Mapper Support

6.4 Using the Dissolving Pulp Mill Classification

7. Associated with High Risk of Sourcing from Ancient & Endangered Forests and other Controversial Sources

7.1 Risk is Known

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Sustainable Chemical Management

PARTICIPATION IN ZDHC: The company is an active participant in ZDHC, where all of their viscose and modal facilities have joined the ZDHC Supplier Platform and have access to the MMCF Module.

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CHEMICAL RECOVERY: All of the company’s MMCF viscose and modal facilities have reached at least the Progressive level in their chemical recovery parameters and limit value, according to Chapter 1: ZDHC MMCF Responsible Fibre Production Guidelines V2.2 (Evaluation will start in 2024)

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WASTEWATER: All of the company’s MMCF viscose and modal facilities have reached at least the Progressive level in their wastewater discharge parameters and limit values, according to Chapter 2: ZDHC MMCF Wastewater Guidelines V2.2 (Evaluation will start in 2024)

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AIR EMISSIONS: All of the company’s viscose and modal facilities have reached at least the Progressive level in their hazardous chemicals’ air emissions parameters and limit values, according to Chapter 3: ZDHC MMCF Air Emissions Guidelines V2.2 (Evaluation will start in 2024)

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Total:

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Risk of sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests

No Known High Risk

In 2023, Lenzing published its third CanopyStyle Audit, which confirmed that new sources were added, increasing the potential risk of sourcing wood from Ancient and Endangered Forests or other controversial sources. Lenzing has since committed to engage to address risk with these suppliers and/or reconsider sourcing decisions.

Lenzing’s new mill in Brazil sources FSC-certified plantation fibre, and does not contain any recently converted Ancient and Endangered Forests. The mill is able to provide FSC 100% pulp.

Key Improvements Required

  • Accelerate the use of Next Generation fibre solutions in order to meet or exceed the targets outlined in the Next Generation Vision for Viscose: 50% by 2030.
  • Continue to engage dissolving pulp suppliers, with Canopy’s support, to confirm low risk and/or risk mitigation measures and work towards elimination of all risk by 2025 to maintain dark green shirt.
  • Continue to use ForestMapper and complementary guidance documents such as the Dissolving Pulp Mill Classification to ensure no sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests.
  • Where virgin fibres are unavoidable and are not coming from key priority Ancient and Endangered Forests, procure higher volumes of FSC 100% certified inputs from sources that have achieved FSC Forest Management certification on the ground.

Areas where the company is showing leadership

Lenzing has maintained a dark green shirt in 2023, and has shown continuous leadership over the last number of years.

Sourcing:

  • Committed to address outstanding issues identified in its third audit, and has conducted extensive engagement with suppliers. Opened a mill in Brazil, which produces FSC 100% dissolving pulp – this is industry-leading, as most mill produce FSC Mix (which contains a mix of FSC certified and non-certified fibres).

Conservation:

  • Supported the call for implementing protection of at least 30% of the world’s Ancient and Endangered Forests by 2030, in a follow-up letter from MMCF producers to countries that are Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
  • Demonstrated an awareness of the status of Ancient and Endangered Forests in the countries from which they source, and efforts to protect them. 
  • Ongoing support for restoration and conservation projects in Austria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Next Gen Solutions:

  • Created the first commercially-available lyocell fibre containing 30% recycled pre-consumer content-based cotton waste, with up to 10% post-consumer content. In 2023, it expanded its Next Gen product line to include a standard viscose product with Next Gen fibres.
  • Maintains its target to reach 50% post-consumer recycled content by 2024.
  • Has established offtake agreements to support the increased use of recycled textile inputs to 100,000 tonnes by 2028.

Number of man-made cellulosic fibre and dissolving pulp mills + location and production volumes

Viscose staple fibre, lyocell, and modal

Lenzing produces a lyocell fibre with 20% to 30% pre-consumer recycled cotton called REFIBRA™ and can produce on demand in response to brand uptake.

The company owns nine mills: three viscose mills, four lyocell mills, and two dissolving pulp mills. Lenzing has built a new dissolving pulp plant in Brazil, jointly with Dexco  that has a capacity of 500,000 tonnes of viscose fibre per year.

Lenzing’s mills include:

  • Purwakarta  PT. South Pacific Viscose, Purwakarta, West Java, Indonesia. Capacity of 323,000 tonnes of viscose fibre.
  • Prachinburi, Sri Maha Phot District, Prachin Buri Province, Thailand. 100,000 tonnes of lyocell.
  • Lenzing Nanjing (100% ownership), Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Capacity of 178,000 tonnes of viscose fibre.
  • Lenzing, Vocklabruck, Austria. Capacity of 284,000 tonnes of viscose and modal.
  • Lenzing, Vocklabruck, Austria. Capacity of 74,000 tonnes of Lyocell (Tencel™, Veocel™).
  • Lenzing City, Vocklabruck, Austria. Capacity of 320,000 tonnes of dissolving pulp.
  • Heiligenkreuz, Baden, Austria. Capacity 90,000 tonnes of lyocell (TENCEL™, VEOCEL™).
  • Grimsby, Lincolnshire, UK. Capacity of 45,000 tonnes of lyocell (TENCEL™, VEOCEL™).
  • Mobile, Axis, Alabama, USA. Capacity of 51,000 tonnes of lyocell (TENCEL™, VEOCEL™).
  • Paskov, Frydek-Mistek, Czech Republic. Capacity of 285,000 tonnes of dissolving pulp.
  • Indianópolis, Minas Gerais, Brazil.  Capacity of 500,000 tonnes of dissolving pulp.
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