Under the agreement, NFT will supply Reju with secondary materials derived from used and unused textile waste for recycling and production of Reju Polyester.
The two companies have worked together to improve ways to collect and process textile waste generated from consumer and post-industrial waste. The agreement will support an open system that ensures 100% compliance for the recycled materials involved.
With the help of Technip Energies and the technical support developed through IBM research, Reju aims to create a global environment for textile recycling that checks the presence of PET plastics within textiles.
Currently, Reju is developing textile waste recycling systems on a large scale, starting with polyester. The result, known as Reju Polyester, is expected to have a carbon footprint that is 50% lower than that of conventional polyester and can be recycled indefinitely.
Reju’s production facility, called Regeneration Hub Zero, is operating in Frankfurt, Germany, and aims to produce Reju PET by 2025.
The equipment supplied by NFT will be manufactured at Reju’s Regeneration Hub Zero in Frankfurt and at future Reju locations throughout Europe.
Reju’s CEO Patrik Frisk said: “With the collection of textile waste in the European Union from 2025, it is important that we have risk management and cooperation to process what is collected and keep it from being lost or incinerated.”
The Waste Framework Directive (WFD) requires that, from 2025, all EU Member States establish systems for the collection of used clothing.
In 2020, the EU generated around 6.95 million tonnes of textile waste. Of this total, 82% consisted of post-consumer waste, while the remainder came from textile manufacturing processes or unsold goods.
NFT was established through a partnership between Tissages de Charlieu Groupe and Synergies TLC.
In November 2023, NFT and its partners established an industrial and research center dedicated to textile recycling. The conveyor line combines selective technologies from Pellenc ST and shredding lines from Andritz to process large amounts of post-industrial and post-consumer waste.
This process aims to solve the problems when turning waste into industrial fibers and materials for new recycling technologies like those used by Reju.
In addition, NFT supplies secondary materials to a wide range of industries including nonwovens, textiles, composites, plastics, and other textiles.
Furthermore, plans are already underway for NFT to set up a second processing plant that is expected to be completed in 2026. The facility is expected to handle 20,000 to 30,000 tons of textiles for purchase annually and create approximately 30 direct employment opportunities.
The directors of Nouvelles Fibers Textiles Eric Boël and Etienne Wiroth said: “Our partnership with Reju opens up a new way of doing things: circular, local, carbon neutral, and highly cooperative companies, especially companies that do well.”
In October, Reju partnered with Goodwill Industries International (GII) and WM, a provider of environmental solutions, to increase textile recycling services across North America.
“Reju, Nouvelles Fibers Textiles partner to support textile recycling in France” was originally created and published by Just Stylethe GlobalData type.
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