Circulose to Restart Ortviken Plant, Resume CIRCULOSE Pulp Shipments Q4 2026

Circulose will restart commercial-scale production at the Ortviken facility in Sundsvall, Sweden and plans to resume shipments of its CIRCULOSE® recycled cotton pulp in Q4 2026. The announcement names the Ortviken plant as the site for the production restart and sets a clear delivery window of October–December 2026 for resumed pulp shipments.

The company made the declaration on February 16, 2026, identifying the Ortviken facility, originally built and operated under the Renewcell name, as the infrastructure backbone for the restart. Circulose framed the effort as a return to commercial-scale output at the Sundsvall site, reviving the industrial capacity tied to the Renewcell-built plant.

The timetable ties the production restart to an operational window that would place first renewed shipments roughly eight to ten months after the February 16, 2026 announcement. Circulose’s target of Q4 2026 for CIRCULOSE® recycled cotton pulp shipments creates a hard milestone for customers and supply-chain partners tracking availability from the Ortviken plant in Sundsvall.

If Circulose meets the Q4 2026 schedule, the Ortviken facility will resume exporting CIRCULOSE® pulp from the site that Renewcell originally established and operated. That outcome would return the Sundsvall plant to commercial-scale activity and reinstate CIRCULOSE® recycled cotton pulp deliveries in the October–December 2026 quarter, marking a measurable restart date for the product line.