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Recycling fibers from

garment waste into

technical textiles

Pureko to install a new Andritz eXcelle needle-punching line for the recycling of
garments. Founded in 2009, Pureko is one of the most important producers of
nonwovens in Poland. The company’s nonwoven products are mainly used for wadding;
they are free of chemicals, do not involve any health hazards, and are hypoallergenic.
Pureko’s products carry top certificates such as INTERTEK, FIRA, OEKO-TEX, and the
National Institute of Hygiene.

The final products will have fabric weights ranging from 300-500 gsm, and production
capacity will be up to 750 kg/h. Installation and start-up are scheduled for the third
quarter of 2021. This is the second ANDRITZ line to be supplied to Pureko, thus
demonstrating the strong partnership between both companies. Three years ago, Pureko
invested in a new, modern plant supplied by ANDRITZ Asselin-Thibeau to produce soft
nonwovens in the furniture, textile, and clothing industries. The new line will enable
Pureko to continue its ongoing growth.

Color Max won FabBRICK: An innovative company

the best product converting textile waste into

beautiful bricks
for ISPO 2021/22 Textile waste is a big problem around the globe. In with an ecological glue that Merlet developed herself,

sports category France, it's estimated to be around 4 million tons, and then pressed into a brick mold. This mold uses
mechanical compression to form the bricks, so it
that's just a fraction of what gets tossed globally; it
was 17 million tons in the United States three years
requires no energy beyond what a human worker needs
ago. Very little of that discarded clothing is collected
mold and set out to dry for two weeks before using.
for reuse or recycling, less than a third in France, and to press it down. The wet bricks are removed from the
Grand Textile specializes in functional fabrics and knits for sportswear, outdoor, and baselayers presented a
nylon & spandex fabric combining different yarns and treated with the patented "Color Max" finish. Due to the half of that (15%) in the U.S. At FabBRICK all creations are thought out and
different yarns on the face side, the color is absorbed differently during the dyeing process. The result is a handcrafted in workshop in the heart of Paris. Since
unique pattern and color combination. The Color Max finish is currently manufactured exclusively in Taiwan. Clarisse Merlet, a French architecture, came up with
the idea for FabBRICK, her award-winning company the creation at the end of 2018, the company had
that makes decorative and insulative bricks out of old already designed more than 40,000 bricks which
The fabric was awarded the best product for fall/winter 2021/22 at the ISPO Textrends in the category of street clothes. The basic component of the bricks is represent 12 tons of recycled textiles. Three
sports. Besides, Grand Textile focuses on sustainability: for example, the company expands the share of machines have been developed to make the project
recycled polyester yarns, and all chemicals are bluesign approved. In 2020, approximately 7.5 million meters of shredded clothing, which Merlet purchases bigger. The latest version has been duplicated five
pre-ground from a supplier in Normandy. Each brick
recycled poly fabrics were produced, an increase of 80 percent compared to the previous year. times, to be able to increase the production capacity.
uses the equivalent of two to three T-shirts' worth of The next step is to industrialize the manufacturing
material and, any kind can be used, including cotton,
The introduced functional fabric is made by a special dyeing process, with a unique pattern, and can be polyester, elastane, PVC, etc. The scraps are mixed process so that we will be able to recycle even more
applied to any material, maintaining the fabric's original soft hand. textile waste.

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