Sweden's largest forest-owners economic association (51,000 family-forest members), one of the world's leading dissolving and paper pulp producers. Co-developer of OnceMore® pulp with Lenzing, supplied into Portuguese fabric manufacturer Riopele for the Filippa K Re:sourced Crepe collection.
Södra is the largest forest-owners economic association in Sweden, with about 51,000 family forest-owner members and a fully integrated industrial footprint covering dissolving pulp, paper pulp, sawn timber, cross-laminated timber and bioenergy. The group is headquartered in Växjö in southern Sweden and runs pulp mills at Mörrum, Mönsterås and Värö.
The Portuguese corridor link runs through OnceMore®, a textile pulp jointly developed by Södra and Lenzing that combines roughly 50% recycled post-consumer blended-textile waste with about 50% renewable Swedish wood pulp. Lenzing converts OnceMore® into TENCEL™ x REFIBRA™ lyocell fibre, which is then woven by Portuguese fabric manufacturer Riopele (Famalicão) into the Re:sourced Crepe fabric Swedish fashion house Filippa K used to launch its SS24 collection — the first commercial fashion collection worldwide based on OnceMore® pulp.
For the Nordic-Iberian corridor, the Södra-Riopele leg matters because it is one of the few fully named, end-to-end Swedish-to-Portuguese industrial supply chains in operation. Swedish forestry feedstock, Austrian fibre processing, Portuguese weaving and Swedish brand placement — with every step publicly attributed.
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