Bark™, the advanced textile remanufacturing company, and New Textile Fibers (NFT)a French company specializing in the recovery of used textiles, today announced a collaboration in the sourcing and recycling of textile waste to support the creation of a circular system in France. NFT will supply Reju with secondary raw materials obtained from used or unused textiles for recycling and processing into regenerated Reju Polyester™.
Reju and NFT will work together to expand infrastructure for the collection and processing of clothing and textile waste from post-consumer and post-industrial sources. Working with also enables an open supply chain and guarantees 100 percent traceability of recycled materials.
Reju is developing the infrastructure to regenerate textile waste on a large scale, starting with polyester. The final product – Reju Polyester™ – is said to have a 50% lower carbon footprint than virgin polyester and can be regenerated infinitely. Reju’s first demonstration plant – Regeneration Hub Zero – is now in operation in Frankfurt am Main and will enable the production of Reju-PET in 2025.
The materials supplied by NFT will be processed in Reju’s new Regeneration Hub Zero in Frankfurt, Germany and in the future Reju Regeneration Hubs in Europe.
NFT and its partners will open a unique semi-industrial site and research center for textile recycling in November 2023. The pilot plant is the first to combine Pellenc ST’s automated sorting technologies with Andritz shredding lines to process large volumes of post-industrial and post-consumer textile waste, eliminating hard spots and converting them into industrial-grade fibers and raw material for new ones Process recycling technologies such as Reju. NFT also supplies secondary raw materials to various industries, including nonwovens, insulation, composites, plastics and other textiles.
Patrik Frisk, CEO of Reju: “Reju and Nouvelles Fibers Textiles leverage innovation and collaboration to accelerate the transition to a circular textiles ecosystem. This valuable partnership demonstrates our shared commitment to solving the problem of textile waste and developing new ways to utilize the resources we have in local supply chains. With textile waste collection mandatory in the European Union from 2025*, it is imperative that we have scalable systems and partnerships in place to process the collected waste and divert it from landfills or incinerators. Together, Reju and NFT are building the technology and infrastructure to regenerate and reuse materials across industries and transform the way we use our resources.”
Eric Boël and Etienne Wiroth, co-directors of Nouvelles Fibers Textiles: “After 6 years of research and collaboration, Nouvelles Fibers Textiles is now ready to work with professionals who need to recycle their textiles. We have an innovative turnkey solution that converts heterogeneous waste textile streams into high-quality homogeneous raw materials while ensuring their traceability. Our partnership with Reju is paving the way for the perm industry: a more circular, more local, less carbon-intensive and more collaborative industry – essentially an industry that does good!”
*Read more about the European Union Waste Framework Directive (WFD) here.
About Reju Reju is a material recycling company focused on developing innovative solutions for recycling polyester textiles and PET waste. Reju, owned by Technip Energies and leveraging technology derived from IBM research, aims to create a global textile recycling ecosystem that addresses PET plastic in textiles. For more information, see https://www.reju.com/.
About NFT Tissages de Charlieu Groupe and Synergies TLC have joined forces to create Nouvelles Fibers Textiles: the first industrial infrastructure to use ANDRITZ automatic sorting and textile recycling solutions and Pellenc ST sorting technologies. It is capable of automatically sorting clothes by composition and color and can also remove hard spots and pre-frayed garments. At the end of the line, Nouvelles Fibers Textiles produces a secondary raw material intended for industries that use textile fibers (e.g., shredding/spinning, nonwovens, composites, etc.). Together with our partners ANDRITZ and Pellenc ST and all our customers, we carry out real production and applied industrial research to address the challenges of valorization and supply chain sustainability. Nouvelles Fibers Textiles is already laying the foundations of a second processing plant, planned for 2026, which will have an annual capacity of 20 to 30 thousand tons of post-consumer textiles and will create about thirty direct jobs.
The creation of Nouvelles Fibers Textiles is a major step forward in reducing the carbon footprint of the textile sector. Automated sorting was the last missing piece of a French circular economy system, paving the way for a complete ecosystem that brings together brands, social and solidarity economy actors, collector-sorters and industrial players from different sectors, all united around the To serve consumers who seek greater traceability and meaning in their donations and purchases.
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