Pure, natural raw materials are always used in the production of Jokipiin Pellava Oy to ensure the environmentally friendly end products for consumers.
The company has established an environmental system control, which helps to control the industrial production in a way which does not disturb nature:
- Water is not used in the production in Jokipiin Pellava Oy, so there are no waste waters coming out from the process
- A by-product of modern weaving process, the residual ribbon, is sold further to carpet weavers to be used as raw material for rug carpets
- The fabric scraps from cutting are sold in our factory outlet to a very low price for hobby use
Fiber materials
All the products made by Jokipin Pellava Oy are environmentally friendly and they are manufactured without chemicals.
Organic linen
Jokipiin Pellava Oy’s raw material, linen yarn, is made from fine, long flax. Finnish summer is very light and this helps the flax plant to produce long and fine fibres.
Organic cotton
Jokipiin Pellava Oy uses also cotton yarn. All our cotton yarns are Ökotex-certified or “super organic” from hand picked cotton fibres with KRAV-certification.
Ökotex is well known sign for environmentally friendly textiles in Europe.
KRAV-certified linen
Some 20% of the yarn used by the company is KRAV-certified, ecological linen yarn, called NordLin. NordLin is cultivated in Finland with only natural fertilizers and no chemicals and no pesticides have been used against insects.
The hard, cold Finnish winter freezes the soil and kills the insects. This minimizes the harmful insects for flax plant and helps the organic farming.
The production process from field to linen yarn is free from chemicals. Since the production of Finnish KRAV-certified yarns are limited Jokipiin Pellava Oy uses other linen yarns as well, but all fibres are treated and spunn with the same manner after they have been harvested.
The process from field to linen yarn is free from all kind of chemicals.
Package materials
All the packing material used by the company are recycleable.
The main point in the packing is to use as little package material as possible. Gift boxes are made of unbleached mini-wellboard, that is very easy to recycle. All oil based details of the packages. like foils, are made for recycling.
Yarn suppliers ship their goods to Jokipii in big wellboard boxes. These boxes are re-used when Jokipii is shipping its end products to retailers or other customers. Adhesive tape is not used on the boxes but a glue laminated paper band that reacts with water. That helps the recycling of all the boxes.