Hyosung and Loop bet on T2T

18/09/2025

Korean textile conglomerate Hyosung and Canadian recycling tech company Loop industries are joining forces to scale up textile-to-textile recycled polyester. “We’ve made great progress with Loop,” said Simon Whitmarsh-Knight, speaking at a conference at Première Vision, with Adel Essaddam, Loop Industries operating officer, and co-inventor of Loop’s patented technology. “Our technology depolymerises polyester at low temperature and low pressure,” said Mr Essaddam, noting that this was a unique feature of the technology which gave it a higher yield and lower footprint. It also allows the company to take in blended waste that other recycling companies won’t want. The other components (elastane, cotton, nylon, etc) are filtered out, he told Sportstextiles.

Loop’s technology reverts polyester back into DMT and Meg (instead of the more common PTA and MEG). This is a deliberate choice, Mr Essaddam said as it avoided the complications of filtering PTA.

The company has been operating a plant in Terrebonne, Québec, for the past five years. “We have trialled 2,500 different types of feedstock there,” he said. Loop is currently building a large scale facility in India with a local partner, Ester, a polyester producer. This facility should be operational in 2028 and will have a capacity of 70,000 tonnes. It will have close access to feedstock, post-industrial and post-consumer, as well as a production line for rPET. Plans for a future facility in Europe are also in the works.

Image courtesy of Loop Industries / Hyosung

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Hyosung and Loop bet on T2T

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