MYKITA and Alleima have joined forces in a new collaboration. The left-over steel scrap from the production of eyewear frames is now returned to Alleima to be recycled steel to be sold back to MYKITA.
Alleima bases its production on 83% recycled steel and in addition uses an electric arc furnace that runs almost entirely on fossil-free electricity. Alleima has been recycling steel for more than 100 years, which differs process-wise and is a more low-carbon process.
MYKITA is an independent eyewear design and manufacturing company combining handcraft with high technology. The Alleima-produced type of stainless steel that MYKITA uses is a highly recycled product: Approximately 90% of the content is recycled with 10% raw material added to achieve the medical grade quality that the products demand. Recently MYKITA started to explore the possibility to further optimse this material cycle aiming to achieve full circularity.
The metal scraps are now returned to the Alleima raw materials yard and goes directly back into the recycling process and to the steel grade MYKITA uses in their production.
