ANDRITZ has always been a pioneer in providing industrially and economically viable solutions that bring the circular economy to the world of textile fibers. Thus, ANDRITZ is not only a reliable supplier but also a knowledge provider. The company offers everything from automated textile sorting and textile fiber preparation to mechanical and chemical recycling and combined processes.
Automated Sorting Process
The latest development in the textile recycling area is the automated textile sorting process. This process is the result of an ambitious partnership between textile recycling company Nouvelles Fibres Textiles, waste sorting specialist Pellenc ST, and international technology group ANDRITZ, a specialist in textile recycling machinery and processes. Capable of automatically sorting garments by composition and color, the 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 automated textile sorting line can process textile waste to produce recycled fibers for the spinning, nonwovens, and composites industries.
Textile Recycling Processes
ANDRITZ has huge experience in the recycling of textiles, with both mechanical and chemical solutions. The mechanical tearing process has been developed by ANDRITZ Laroche for over a century. Thanks to this expertise and more than 2,000 reference projects worldwide, customers can process almost all types of pre-/post-consumer textile waste. Today, ANDRITZ offers a complete range of tearing equipment, from 50 to 3,000 kg/h, suitable for a large variety of textile materials, natural, animal, synthetic, artificial, and mineral fibers. This technology aims to preserve the original character of the fibers, e.g. cotton, by maximizing fiber length and strength.
In the area of chemical textile recycling, ANDRITZ is a key player in this evolving industry. Not only because of the expertise in chemical process technology, but also because the recycling processes can utilize the same equipment that ANDRITZ successfully uses in pulp and paper production. Chemical and mechanical processes are fully complementary in the drive to achieve the desired result, but the addition of chemical treatment is a game changer for textile-to-textile recycling.
ANDRITZ Has The Full Suite In Textile Recycling
ANDRITZ has huge experience in the recycling of textiles, with both mechanical and chemical solutions. Now with its expertise in sorting, complete lines from collected textiles to full recycling is possible, representing a revolution in circularity for the industry.
