textile recovery

Project Re:Claim wins Plastics Industry Award 2024

The joint venture between the Salvation Army Trading Company (SATCoL) and Project Plan B, known as Project Re:Claim, uses an ISEC evo system from PURE LOOP to process used garments and textiles. The...

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Leading companies sign up for first Textiles Recycling Expo

The Textiles Recycling Expo has already received widespread support from key industry players ahead of its launch on 4 to 5 June 2025 at the Brussels Expo in Belgium. Many of Europe’s pioneering...

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PETCORE EUROPE: Leading the way in polyester textile circularity

PETCORE EUROPE, the foremost Brussels-based organization in the PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) value chain, is exceptionally well-positioned to lead the transition toward circularity in polyester...

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Issue 04/2024 Groundbreaking solution

A sustainable future in textile recycling

As the EU implement new regulations for the separate collection of textile waste, the Austrian company REDWAVE introduced a revolutionary advancement in textile recycling at IFAT 2024: REDWAVE TEX....

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Issue 04/2024

Increasing circularity of polyester textiles

CARBIOS and TOMRA Textiles announced the signing of an agreement to collaborate on establishing an efficient stream in Northern Europe from textile waste collection, sorting and preparation to...

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REDWAVE

REDWAVE, one of the leading providers of sorting technologies, announced the launch of REDWAVE TEX, a new flexible sorting solution designed specifically for the textile industry. Its aim is to...

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Complete ANDRITZ textile recycling line starts operating at Italian recycling specialist

ANDRITZ recently started up a new textile recycling line at Sfilacciatura Negro’s plant in Biella/Italy. Designed for processing post-consumer textile waste with automatic removal of hard parts, the...

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First automated textile waste sorting and recycling line in France inaugurated

France’s first industrial plant for automated sorting and recycling of textile waste was officially inaugurated at Nouvelles Fibres Textiles, Amplepuis, on November 30, 2023. The plant is the result...

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Issue 04/2023 PET fibre-to-fibre recycling

EREMA presented with INTAREMA® FibrePro:IV a new solution

Following their entry into the fibres and textiles sector, as announced at K 2022, recycling machine manufacturer EREMA launched the INTAREMA® FibrePro:IV – which has been specially developed for PET...

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Issue 03/2023 Textile circular economy

The sorting challenge

To this day, only a tiny fraction of discarded textiles is recycled. While the clothing industry has doubled production in the last 15 years, the time garments are worn has fallen by more than 30 %....

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