RECYCLE TEXTILES INTO SUCCESS

ANDRITZ TEXTILE RECYCLING TECHNOLOGIES

Textile recycling is a vital frontier for a more sustainable world. Clothing alone accounts for around 10 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity, and much of the pre- and post-consumer waste generated by the textile industry ends up incinerated or in landfill.

Technology can change this: ANDRITZ is at the core of the movement to provide industrially and economically viable solutions that bring circularity to the world of natural and synthetic fibers.

There is no single, catch-all route to textile recycling. ANDRITZ has a diversity of solutions and cooperating partners covering the value chain from recovery of fiber to production of new yarn.

Experts talk-Textile Recycling in a nutshell

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ANDRITZ focuses on attractive and feasible recycling solutions for pre- and post-consumer textile waste:

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Textile fiber preparation

ANDRITZ Recycling offers single equipment and complete conditioning systems based on shredding.

Upcycling Technology

Chemical recycling of textile waste is a emerging business area.

Mechanical recycling lines

ANDRITZ Laroche offers single equipment and complete mechanical recycling lines based on tearing.

Fibers to nonwoven

Complete nonwoven roll-good production lines to process

recycled fibers from textile waste.

Recycling of polycotton

CIRC/ANDRITZ in cooperation

Production of Infinna fibers

Infinited Fiber Company/ANDRITZ in cooperation turns any cellulose-rich raw material to InfinnaTM cellulose carbamate fibers.

Cooperation partners

In 2020 Infinited Fiber Company and ANDRITZ signed a cooperation agreement to develop the process and equipment solutions for Infinited Fiber Company’s textile fiber regeneration technology. The technology can turn any cellulose-rich raw material, including discarded textiles, used cardboard or rice/wheat straw, into Infinna™ cellulose carbamate fibers.

In 2021, the US recycling technology innovator CIRC and ANDRITZ signed a cooperation agreement to bundle each party’s expertise in the field of recycling of polycotton and to upscale CIRC’s recycling technology for commercial use.

Comprehensive testing and R&D

The ART Center (ANDRITZ Recycling Technology Center) in St. Michael, Austria, and ANDRITZ Laroche in France offer complementary recycling trials with a variety of raw materials on state-of-the-art machinery at industrial scale. The recycling pilot line at ANDRITZ Laroche premises is designed for mechanical recycling.

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Textile-to-Textile: The new opportunity

Consumer demand and textile industry targets are driving the circularity agenda, but it is technology that will actually make it happen. The world of textiles and the textile industry should be under no illusions about their responsibilities. The price of fast fashion is that making clothes accounts for around 10 % percent of CO2 emissions from human activity. Despite the need for circularity in our use of resources, the clothing industry has been fed by a distinctly linear value chain. Clothing is notoriously over-supplied, and while it might be resold, recycled into cloths or insulation, much of it ends up incinerated or in landfill. Textile-to-textile circularity has been conspicuously absent.