kinnarps-sustainability-report-2023

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FOCUS AREA:

Raw materials and resources

2025 Goal

The utilisation rate of fabric

should be 85%.

82%

2020

83%

2021

83%

2022

83%

2023

analysis The utilisation rate of textiles reached the same

level as the previous two years at 83%. Due to this year’s large

order intake and the need to speed up production, we’ve not

succeeded in achieving the hoped-for increase in our textile

utilisation from the previous year. We’ve now added measures

in which we extend the calculation time in the software we use

in order to achieve the best possible optimisation. During the

next financial year, we’ll be installing a new cutting machine

with associated software, and we’ve started a joint project

with our machine supplier to cut and optimise even more

efficiently. In addition to the precision of the machines, there

are two main factors that affect the utilisation rate: which pat-

terns the fabric is to be cut out in and what the day’s mix looks

like. In other words, how many equivalent products are to be

manufactured in accordance with our client order-controlled

system. Leftover waste fabric is reused in our Re:fill padding

material or sent for recycling.

Textile resource

utilisation*

* Production in Skillingaryd