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Collaboration to further recycling & circularity

26/11/2024
Collaboration to further recycling & circularity
A new partnership has been formed between Reju, a start-up that has developed a textile-to-textile recycling solution for polyester, and Nouvelles Fibres Textiles (NFT), a company, also based in France, that is installing industrial scale collecting and sorting facilities to supply recyclers with traceable feedstock.

With a series of partners, including machinery makers Pellenc ST and Andritz, NFT inaugurated a first semi-industrial and automated used textile processing facility in November 2023.

Reju has based its technology on a chemical recycling process initially developed by IBM (VolCat), and is now a division of Technip Energies, a diversified engineering and energy group headquartered in France. Reju operates a demonstration plant in Frankfurt, Germany and plans to begin delivering recycled polyester next year.

“With the mandatory collection of textile waste 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,” commented Patrik Frisk, Reju CEO.

Reju’s recycling technology uses a volatile catalyst (thus its first name VolCat) to separate polyester from other fibres. “It is fast, clean and efficient,” Mr Frisk told sportstextiles.com. This, he suggests, makes it more economically viable than other chemical recycling solutions.

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