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Polyester Reimagined: Rewin is shaping Tomorrow’s Textile Landscape
Rewin, a Swedish company in the recycling industry, is at the forefront of addressing the growing environmental challenges within the textile industry, where polyester constitutes 60% of newly produced textiles with a great climate impact. Recognizing the significant impact of fossil based polyester manufacturing, Rewin aims to revolutionize the sector with its unique fiber-to-fiber recycling technology.
Meeting the demand of Sustainable Textiles
Anders Arkell, Chief Technology Officer at Rewin, underscores the urgent challenge posed by today's low recycling rates for textiles and polyester:
– The production of polyester is a significant environmental challenge, and our goal is to minimize the industry's impact by recycling discarded polyester. Arkell also emphasizes the substantial increase in demand for recycled textiles from both industry and consumers.
Rewin's groundbreaking process, based on chemical recycling, is the key to transforming discarded textiles into high-quality, refined polyester ready for new production. This not only reduces the use of newly produced polyester, which requires substantial energy and natural resources, but also decreases textile waste.
Prioritizint Fiber-to-Fiber Recycling
Anders Arkell highlights the importance of prioritizing fiber-to-fiber recycling over using recycled polyester from PET bottles:
– Our solution creates a closed system for polyester within the textile industry, crucial for reducing dependence on virgin resources and promoting a sustainable circular economy," explains Arkell.
Concrete Goals for a circular future
The textile recycling industry in Sweden, as well as globally, has only just begun to explore its full potential. Rewin's concrete goal is to establish a test and demo facility for polyester recycling in the outskirts of Malmö, laying the foundation for a full-scale facility in Sweden over the next three to five years.
– Rewin is a pioneering force in the recycling industry. We have strong collaborations with partners from various sectors, and the opportunities are significant to successfully create something substantial, concludes Anders Arkell.
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Rewin is a companydetermined to solve the textile waste challenge. The textile and fashionindustry is facing a huge challenge ahead. The solution lies in cutting-edgetechnology that delivers cost-effective, energy-saving fiber-to-fiberrecycling. Simply put, renewed polyester.
The Production Demonstration for industry-scale polyester recycling is a project financed bythe Swedish Energimyndigheten, with Rewin and Wargön Innovation as projectmanagers. Wargön Innovation, a part of Innovatum AB, is funded by the EuropeanRegional Development Fund, Västra Götaland Region, Vänersborg Municipality, andFyrbodal Municipal Association.
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Wargön Innovation is an innovation hubsupporting entrepreneurs, companies and public sector in developing andcommercializing new circular products, processes and business models. Our mainareas of expertise are within circularity, bio-based materials and, above all,industrial textile sorting where we have a unique test and demo facility. In collaboration with us,innovators, businesses, academia, and the idea-driven sector can test newtechnologies and methods that facilitate circular business models and promote aresource-efficient textile and fashion industry
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