Textiles were one of the first materials ever to be recycled, and there are well established mechanical recycling processes for natural fibers like cotton and wool. Today’s wide range of synthetic polymer-based and blended fibers makes manual sorting of textiles complicated, but scalable sorting solutions enable a circular economy for textiles and fashion.

Our textile sorting systems combine high precision near-infrared (NIR) and visual (VIS) spectrometry sensors to separate whole materials by color and type (cotton, polyester, wool, etc.). You benefit from high content compositions that are also sorted into light and dark colors to meet even the strictest feedstock requirements.

Cuttings and shredded textiles can be effectively sorted and purified with a combination of sensor-based sorting technologies. Whether sorting post-industrial materials or post-consumer textiles, our sorting systems offer exceptional quality standards – ideal for creating new products made from recycled fibers.

High throughput, automated sorting of shredded textiles instantly identifies impurities such as trims made of plastics, metal or other materials. Our high precision sorting systems remove unwanted fractions from the textile stream, resulting in high-quality recovered fabrics that can be prepared for either mechanical or chemical recycling processes.