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Are performance apparel consumers ready for mono material garments? 73% of clothing ends up in landfill or is incinerated at the end of its useful life and only 1% of textiles are recycled into new fabrics. 28th May 2021 Report summary As pressures to recycle textiles and clothing continue to grow, problems are being encountered because recycling plants are unable to work with complex mixtures of fibres, dyes and finishing chemicals from which many garments are manufactured. The difficulties of...

First fully automated sorting plant in Sweden The new automated plant has a capacity of up to 4.5 tons per hour per line. 16th March 2021 Sysav Industri AB is now operating the world’s first fully automated sorting plant for textiles recycling in Malmö, Sweden. The plant has been built and designed by Stadler, headquartered in Altshausen, Germany, and integrates four Autosort units built by Tomra, of Asker, Norway. It is part of the government-funded Swedish Innovation Platform for Textile S...

STADLER and TOMRA provide the key to achieving a textile circular economy with the supply of a fully automated sorting plant for Sysav Industri AB The fully automated sorting plant for Sysav Industri AB is part of the Swedish Innovation Platform for Textile Sorting (SIPTex) government-funded project, which aims to develop a sorting solution tailored to the needs of textile recyclers and the garment industry. Delivered by STADLER and TOMRA the plant sorts pre-and post-consumer mixed textile wa...