PARIS, Nov. 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Reju™, the aspiring textile-to-textile regeneration corporate, and Nouvelles Fibres Textiles (NFT), a French corporate specialising within the healing of end-of-life textiles, as of late introduced a collaboration at the sourcing and recycling of textile wastefulness to assistance the development of a round ecosystem in France. NFT will provide secondary uncooked fabrics derived from impaired or new wastefulness textiles to Reju for recycling and manufacturing of regenerated Reju Polyester™.
Reju and NFT will collaborate to increase the gathering and processing infrastructure for attire and textile wastes from post-consumer and post-industrial resources. The collaboration will even permit for an revealed provide chain and contract 100% traceability of recycled fabrics.
Reju is creating the infrastructure to rush textile wastefulness and regenerate it at scale, inauguration with polyester. The tip product – Reju Polyester™ – is predicted to have a 50% decrease carbon footprint than virgin polyester and will also be regenerated infinitely. Reju’s first demonstration plant – Regeneration Hub 0 – is now operational in Frankfurt, Germany, and can come on series to allow the manufacturing of Reju PET in 2025.
Fabrics equipped by way of NFT can be processed at Reju’s brandnew Regeneration Hub 0 in Frankfurt, Germany and the generation Reju Regeneration Hubs in Europe.
NFT and its companions opened a singular semi-industrial website online and analysis middle for textile recycling in November 2023. The pilot series is the primary to mix Pellenc ST’s automatic sorting applied sciences with Andritz’ tearing traces to procedure prime volumes of post-industrial and post-consumer textile wastefulness, do away with crisp issues, and switch them into business grade fiber and uncooked subject matter feedstock for brandnew recycling applied sciences like Reju. NFT additionally supplies secondary uncooked fabrics to numerous industries together with non-wovens, insulation, composites, plastics, and alternative textiles.
Patrik Frisk, CEO of Reju: “Reju and Nouvelles Fibres Textiles are using innovation and collaboration to accelerate the transition to a circular textile ecosystem. This valuable partnership demonstrates our collective commitment to addressing the problem of textile waste and developing new ways to use the resources we have within local supply chains. With the collection of textile waste mandatory in the European Union starting in 2025*, it is imperative we have scalable systems and partnerships to process what is collected and keep it from landfills or incineration. Together, Reju and NFT are building the technology and infrastructure to regenerate and reuse materials across industries and change the way we use our resources.”
Eric Boël and Etienne Wiroth, Co-directors of Nouvelles Stories Textiles: “After 6 years of research and collaborative work, Nouvelles Fibres Textiles is now ready to collaborate with professionals who need to recycle their textiles. We have an innovative turnkey solution that transforms heterogeneous end-of-life textile streams into high-quality homogeneous raw materials while ensuring their traceability. Our partnership with Reju paves the way for the permindustry: a circular, more local, less carbon-intensive, and more collaborative industry—essentially, an industry that does good!”
*Learn extra in regards to the Eu Union’s Wastefulness Framework Directive (WFD) here.
About Reju
Reju is a fabrics regeneration corporate eager about developing cutting edge answers for recycling polyester textiles and PET wastefulness. Owned by way of Technip Energies and using generation originating with IBM analysis, Reju goals to determine a world textile recycling round ecosystem to handle PET plastic present in textiles. Be informed extra at https://www.reju.com/.
About NFT
Tissages de Charlieu Groupe and Synergies TLC have partnered to manufacture Nouvelles Stories Textiles: the primary business infrastructure deploying ANDRITZ’s automatic sorting and textile recycling answers, incorporating sorting applied sciences from Pellenc ST. It’s in a position to mechanically sorting clothes by way of composition and colour and too can take away crisp issues and pre-fray clothes. On the terminate of the series, Nouvelles Stories Textiles produces a secondary uncooked subject matter designed for industries that utility textile fiber (e.g., shredding/spinning, non-wovens, composite fabrics, and so on.). Along with our companions, ANDRITZ and Pellenc ST, and all our shoppers, we behavior real-world productions and carried out business analysis to handle the demanding situations of valorization and provide chain sustainability. Nouvelles Stories Textiles is already laying the rules for a 2nd subject matter preparation plant scheduled for 2026, which may have an annual capability of 20 to 30 thousand heaps of post-consumer textiles and can manufacture round thirty direct jobs.
The establishing of Nouvelles Stories Textiles represents a significant travel in lowering the carbon footprint of the textile sector. Automatic sorting used to be the endmost lacking piece of a French round economic system loop, paving the way in which for a whole ecosystem that brings in combination manufacturers, social and cohesion economic system actors, collectors-sorters, and business avid gamers from numerous sectors, all united to lend shoppers in the hunt for extra traceability and that means of their donations and purchases.
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