First French Plant For Sorting & Recycling Of Textile Waste
France based textile recycling company Nouvelles Fibres, has started the country’s first industrial plant for automated sorting and recycling of textile waste.
The plant is the result of a partnership between textile recycling company Nouvelles Fibres Textiles, waste sorting specialist Pellenc ST and Andritz, a specialist in textile recycling machinery and processes.
Capable of automatically sorting garments by composition and colour, the new line meets the needs of both post-consumer and post-industrial waste markets.
“The line also removes hard parts such as buttons and zippers to prepare the material for further processing in an Andritz tearing machine,” the German company said in a press release.
The automated textile sorting and recycling line will process textile waste to produce recycled fibres for the spinning, nonwovens, and composites industries.
Automated sorting was the last missing link needed to develop a complete ecosystem in France, where textile producers from different sectors are working together towards a textile circular economy.
This partnership is a clear contribution to tackling the challenge of textile waste in the EU.
The EU’s strategy for sustainable and circular textiles aims to ensure that by 2030 textile products are made to a great extent of recycled fibers and incineration and landfilling of textiles are minimized.
