The machine can now sort ~900 kgs of post-consumer textiles per hour, enabling a closed textiles loop. Today, the Fibersort consortium presents the market ready Fibersort machine to the industry; a cutting edge automated sorting technology that revolutionises textile to textile recycling of post-consumer textiles. Read More
The report has been published in March 2020 and is readily available for download! This is the final publication of the Fibersort Interreg NWE project. As such, it explores the key barriers and critical success factors for an effective market uptake of post-consumer recycled textiles and automated sorting technologies, such as the Fibersort, in the long term in North-West Europe. Read More
After updating the Fibersort with automated feed-in system and many more fractions, the machine is up and running once again! Read More
The report has been published in October 2019 and is readily available for download! This publication provides policy recommendations at regional, national and the European governments to allow the Fibersort, as well as other automated sorting technologies, to live up to their full potential. Read More
Technology updates, yarn development, presentations and speaking engagements, research on end-markets and on policy support to enable used textiles and automated sorting to live up to their full potential. Are you curious about what the project partners have been up to in the past months? Read More
In the textiles recycling landscape, more and more high-value recyclers are popping up and existing technologies are scaling up their production. To ensure Fibersorted post-consumer textile waste finds its way to these recyclers, the Fibersort project has mapped the high-value recyclers landscape, providing more insight into the current and potential end markets. The overview of high-value recyclers and the types of materials that they process are available open-source. Read More
This week, the quarterly Fibersort webinar for the Producer Network took place. Find out more about what happened in this article. Read More
October 2nd brought together all project partners once again at Smart Fibersorting facilities, where the quarterly partner meeting was hosted. Read More
The Fibersort is presented as a key step in the value chain to enable textile recycling in this article from the Wall Street Journal. Read More
In March 2019, project partner Procotex sent opened Fibersorted material to a spinner in Spain. After a few months, the first spools of wool yarn, with up to 60% recycled post-consumer Fibersorted textiles, have returned to Procotex... Read More
