ExpertiseUpdated on 16 May 2025
Circular Textile Solutions: From Collection, Sorting and Recovery to Recycled Fibres
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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:
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Municipal textile collection systems in Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece
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Textile waste sorting systems for reuse and recycling, including quality control
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Mechanical recycling of textiles into fibres suitable for further textile production and other industrial applications
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Production of recycled textile fibres as secondary raw materials for nonwoven, insulation, and textile sectors
Proven experience and capacities:
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More than 25 years of experience in the wholesale trade of second-hand clothing
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Advanced know-how in sorting for reuse in line with the waste management hierarchy
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Established and operational quality control systems
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A product portfolio exceeding 300 categories, covering extra, first, and second quality items
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A multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals in textile waste management
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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.
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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
- 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
- Already defined
Erling Zandfeld
Senior Advisor at Erling Karl Zandfeld
Gothenburg, Sweden