Partnership for textile recycling
A partnership to set up an industrial-scale automatic textile sorting line in France.
A partnership to set up the very first industrial-scale automatic textile sorting line in France combining automated sorting and recycling technology has been formed by international technology group Andritz with Pellenc ST and Nouvelles Fibres Textiles.
„We all shared our knowledge and expertise to promote on-the-ground circularity for textiles by full integration of the value chain. This guarantees traceability of recycled materials, mitigates the textile and composites industries’ environmental impacts and reduces their carbon footprint while creating meaningful jobs.“
The partners have knowledge from decades of experience: Pellenc ST, Pertuis Cedex/France, in sorting technologies, Andritz AG, Graz/Austria, and Nouvelles Fibres Textiles (newly founded by Les Tissages de Charlieu, SARL, Charlieu/France, and Synergies TLC, Albertville/France) in textile machinery and processes, post-consumer textile value chains from sorting to manufacturing.
The new textile sorting line being built is the first to combine Pellenc’s automated sorting technologies with Andritz’s recycling technologies. It will process post-consumer textile wastes to produce recycled fiber engineered for the spinning, nonwoven and composite industries. Starting operations in mid-2023, it will serve as a production line for Nouvelles Fibres Textiles, as an R&D line for the 3 partners, and as a test and demonstration center for their customers.
Nouvelles Fibres Textiles aims to become a reference in both industrial grade material production and industrial scale post-consumer textile sorting, thanks to innovative technologies with hard point removal providing pure fibers, selective colors, and differentiated fiber types.
Nouvelles Fibres Textiles’ partners also work closely together in R&D at the Andritz Laroche and Pellenc technical centers to keep pushing technical boundaries.
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