Reju™, the progressive textile-to-textile regeneration firm, opened its first working unit – Regeneration Hub Zero – in Frankfurt, Germany.
The Reju Hub has been a major achievement for the corporate since its institution in Paris only a 12 months in the past. It’s poised to start deliveries on a worldwide scale and was constructed at an unprecedented tempo.
Reju to Cut back International Plastic Present in Textiles
Reju is a supplies regeneration firm targeted on creating progressive options for recycling polyester textiles and PET waste. With proprietary know-how, Reju goals to determine a round ecosystem for textile recycling and cut back the worldwide plastic present in textiles.
Owned by Technip Energies, a world-leading engineering and know-how firm, Reju makes use of know-how invented by IBM analysis. Reju is creating a brand new round system and infrastructure for recovering, regenerating and recirculating textile waste – at scale – beginning with polyester.
Technip Energies is a number one engineering and know-how firm dedicated to accelerating the vitality transition. The corporate operates in over 34 international locations and is a worldwide chief in sustainable chemistry, hydrogen options, and CO2 administration.
The mix of the experience of the staff Reju has recruited, and the proficiency of Technip Energies will allow Reju to increase at an unprecedented velocity and scale.
Reju will assure textile-to-textile traceability from textile waste that will in any other case be buried, burnt or dumped. The top product – Reju Polyester – has a 50% decrease carbon footprint than virgin polyester, contributing considerably to lowering the environmental impression of textile manufacturing. Reju is dedicated to bringing a product to market that’s demonstrably cleaner and could be regenerated infinitely, thereby selling a extra sustainable textile trade.
Reju joins forces with upstream companions to get better, acquire, and kind textiles. These companions play an important function in enabling our new construction, making a round textile system that doesn’t but exist. Their contributions are instrumental in our mission to revolutionise textile recycling.
Reju Revolutionises Textile Recycling in Frankfurt
Patrik Frisk CEO of Reju, mentioned, “We’re beginning with essentially the most pressing drawback in textile waste – polyester.”
He added, “The world produces 92 million tons of textile waste every year, but lower than 1% is recycled. It’s a system that extracts finite sources, creating textile waste with no accountability for end-of-life. Reju goes to vary that by unlocking a brand new system via important partnerships around the globe. We are going to construct infrastructure, scale know-how, adjust to rules and, ultimately, assist the textile trade evolve and allow a change in behaviour. Our Regeneration Hub Zero in Frankfurt is a major milestone, showcasing how this superior know-how addresses the worldwide textile waste drawback.”
Frisk, an trade veteran and former CEO of Below Armour Inc., CEO of Aldo Group and Govt of VF Corp., leads with Alain Poincheval, COO of Reju and a 35-year Govt of Technip Energies.
“Technip Energies brings over 65 years of engineering expertise. We’re current in 34 international locations,” mentioned Alain Poincheval. “It has confirmed its experience in accelerating local weather options, combining engineering and development capabilities with technological know-how because it drives in the direction of a much less carbon-reliant economic system of tomorrow’.