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Carbios teams up with Tomra

18/06/2024
Norwegian sorting technology developer Tomra has entered into a partnership with Carbios, a French biorecycling company for PET and polyester, to establish an “efficient stream” of textile waste collection in Northern Europe through its newly formed Tomra Textiles division.

Tomra’s Autosort machines use near-infrared light to identify the composition of textiles. They are said to be able to treat 4.5 tonnes per hour. A fully automated sorting plant for used textiles with four Autosort machines has been in operation in Sweden since 2021 as part of the Swedish Innovation Platform for Textile Sorting (SIPTex), a government-funded research project.

“The textile industry has been optimised for cost and efficiency for centuries. Closing the gap means scaling all the elements of a circular value chain – from collection to sorting to recycling technologies. Future recycling solutions depend on reliable access to feedstock. Through the collaboration with Carbios we hope to stimulate further investments needed to scale textile circularity,” declared Vibeke Krohn, head of Tomra Textiles.

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