Circle Economy to demonstrate textile sorting technology
20/02/2018
It claims the technology, which it calls Fibersort, is capable of distinguishing between the different fibres in a fabric. This would allow for large volumes of mixed post-consumer textiles to be sorted.
The company has received funding from the INTERREG North-West Europe programme, an arm of the European Commission’s European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), and the C&A Foundation to develop this technology.
The project’s partners, which include Valvan Baling Systems, Reshare, Procotex and Worn Again, will soon be testing the sorted materials in textile to textile recycling processes. They are also working with industry stakeholders to better understand the end-markets for sorted textiles and to optimise the technology.
They plan to launch a commercially viable Fibersort process into the market by September 2019.
In the meantime, the Fibersort partners have invited textile industry stakeholders to a demonstration of the technology on March 14.
Explaining this decision, they said: “Performance information will be shared with the industry for the first time, because the consortium knows that opening their doors and welcoming feedback and insight from the market is the best way to create lasting industry transformation.”
More details about the ‘Demo Day’ can be found here.
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