Visit to the sustainable Lyocell factory of fiber manufacturer Altri in Portugal

On the outskirts of Porto, in the Portuguese town of Vila Nova de Famalicão, the Centre for Nanotechnology and Engineering Materials (CENTI) and the Textile Technology Centre of Portugal (CITEVE) are located side by side. These centres work together to promote Portuguese textiles as a benchmark for a new sustainable and circular European textile industry. This includes a pilot plant for the production of lyocell by the cellulose company Altri. It serves as a model for its controversial "Gama project", a lyocell macro plant it wants to build in the Spanish town of Palas de Rei.