ExpertiseUpdated on 16 May 2025

Circular Textile Solutions: From Collection, Sorting and Recovery to Recycled Fibres

TexCycle TEAM

Textile recovery solutions company at TexCycle brand of Eurotex Ltd.

Varna, Bulgaria

About

Textile waste valorisation and circular textile solutions

Eurotex / TexCycle provide expertise in the collection, sorting for reuse, sorting for recycling, and mechanical recycling of post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste. The company operates full-scale facilities for textile sorting and mechanical recycling and has experience in ensuring the quality of recycled textile fibres.

Key expertise includes:

  • Municipal textile collection systems in Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece

  • Textile waste sorting systems for reuse and recycling, including quality control

  • Mechanical recycling of textiles into fibres suitable for further textile production and other industrial applications

  • Production of recycled textile fibres as secondary raw materials for nonwoven, insulation, and textile sectors

Proven experience and capacities:

  • More than 25 years of experience in the wholesale trade of second-hand clothing

  • Advanced know-how in sorting for reuse in line with the waste management hierarchy

  • Established and operational quality control systems

  • A product portfolio exceeding 300 categories, covering extra, first, and second quality items

  • A multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals in textile waste management

  • End-to-end textile recovery solutions, including collection, sorting, cleaning and repair, recycling, and support for sustainable textile solutions

Eurotex / TexCycle are interested in participating as a project partner, contributing to textile waste valorisation, circular materials development, pilot and demonstration activities, and market-oriented solutions within Horizon Europe and other relevant EU funding programmes.

Similar opportunities

  • Project cooperation

    Project Partnership for Circular Textile Technologies and Industrial Pilots

    TexCycle TEAM

    Textile recovery solutions company at TexCycle brand of Eurotex Ltd.

    Varna, Bulgaria

  • Project cooperation

    Looking for partners

    • Early idea
    • Expertise offered
    • Consortium seeks Partners
    • Data technologies | (AI based) process and system control technologies
    • Data technologies | (AI based) Material and Product Design, Decomposition and Separation
    • Enabling technologies | Industry 4.0 technologies (IoT, big data analytics) for monitoring and managing circular value chains
    • Enabling technologies | Life cycle assessment / Product life cycle management – e.g., Digital Twin / Digital Product Passport
    • Enabling technologies | AI-driven diagnostic systems, e.g., for assessing the viability of reused, remanufactured, and recycled components
    • Data technologies | (AI based) recognition systems (e.g. image recognition) to evaluate materials, components and products and determine the best use paths
    • Data technologies | Data ecosystems for the realisation of circular value creation exploiting the full potential of digitalisation – e.g., harnessing existing, purpose-built platform solutions.

    Laura Bies

    Lab Lead Smart Quality at August-Wilhelm Scheer Institut

    Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Project cooperation

    Textile Traceability

    • Already defined

    Erling Zandfeld

    Senior Advisor at Erling Karl Zandfeld

    Gothenburg, Sweden