The backbone material

Tex2Tex^®

Textile-to-textile recycled polyester from our Thermo-Mechanical Reactor^™.

Post-consumer and post-industrial textile waste, engineered back into virgin-grade pellets, fiber, yarn, fabric, and garments—without bottles.

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Process: TMR™ textile-to-textile recycled polyester
Outputs: Pellets - Staple Fiber - Filament - Spun Yarn - Nonwovens
Status: Commercial

Waste → reactor → market-ready materials

The problem

The global textile waste crisis

The world produces massive amounts of textile waste, yet there is nearly zero commercial-scale polyester textile-to-textile recycling. Current recycled polyester supply depends almost entirely on plastic bottles—not textile waste.

92M tons
Global textile waste
The world generates approximately 92 million tons of textile waste annually. Most is downcycled, incinerated, or landfilled.
41%
Downcycled or landfilled
A large share of global textile waste is downcycled, incinerated, or sent to landfill. Scaled textile-to-textile polyester recycling remains rare.
86%
Virgin polyester
86% of polyester is produced from virgin petroleum. Of the 14% that is recycled, 99% comes from PET bottles—not textiles.
10M ton
Feedstock shortage by 2030
The recycled polyester market faces a projected 10 million ton shortage of feedstock. Bottle RPET alone cannot meet growing demand from brands and regulators.

Why Tex2Tex^®

Six reasons brands switch.

From feedstock integrity to drop-in manufacturing—everything a sourcing team needs to move off bottle RPET.

01
No bottles. No downcycling.
Textile-in, textile-out. We don't compete with food-grade PET streams.
02
Cost competitive
Priced to scale alongside virgin polyester, not as a boutique premium.
03
79%
lower CO₂e vs virgin PET
Lowest LCA footprint
Lower impact than virgin PET, bottle RPET and chemically recycled PET. Independently verified.
04
Built at scale
Industrial reactor capacity, multi-tonne lots, repeatable supply.
05
Consistent quality
Validated quality performing at or above many of our leading brand customers' standards.
06
Plug-and-play
Drop-In solution for any supply chain, validated in 1000s of product.

The problem — from challenge to legislation

Less than 0.25% of polyester is textile-to-textile.

In 2024, global apparel polyester consumption grew from 71 to 78 million MT. Almost all of it is virgin. Minimum recycled content rules are now landing.

2024 Apparel Industry Polyester Consumption

0.24%RPET from Textile Waste / Ocean Plastic

Virgin Polyester88%
RPET from Bottles12%
RPET from Textile Waste / Ocean Plastic0.24%
Bio Polyester0.01%

Source: Textile Exchange Preferred Fiber & Materials Market Report 2025

Incoming legislation

Environmental Cost Label — France

Score based on 16 LCA indicators (GHG emissions, water use, biodiversity impact, microfibre release, chemical use). Voluntary Phase: 1 October 2025. Mandatory: April 2026.

Incoming legislation

ESPR — EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation

Will obligate textiles to meet minimum recycled content, durability, and transparency standards. Formally adopted 2027, compliance expected ~2028.

Tex2Tex^® is built for the regulation curve — minimum recycled content, traceable, certified, available now at 120 kt/yr.

Technology

What is Tex2Tex^®?

A proprietary thermo-mechanical recycling (TMR^™) process that transforms polyester textile waste into high-quality recycled PET pellets—without chemical inputs.

01
Collection
Post-industrial and post-consumer polyester textile waste is sourced from mills, brands, and collectors worldwide.
02
Sorting
Inputs are sorted by color, blend, and fiber type to deliver a consistent polyester feedstock.
03
Shredding
Sorted textiles are mechanically shredded into uniform fibers ready for thermo-mechanical processing.
04
Melting
Shredded fibers are melted without chemical solvents, preparing the polymer for reactor upgrading.
05
Gen II TMR™
The proprietary thermo-mechanical reactor depolymerizes and upgrades the melt—no chemical inputs required.
06
Filtration
Multi-stage filtration removes residual contaminants, bringing the melt to industrial spinning purity.
07
Pelletization
Purified molten PET is extruded and cut into uniform pellets ready for fiber spinning applications.