Reju, the Paris-headquartered textile-to-textile regeneration company, has selected the Chemelot Industrial Park in Sittard, Netherlands, for its first industrial scale regeneration centre.

The Reju Regeneration Hub One’s strategic location will enable the company to leverage existing infrastructure and industrial synergies to scale its operations efficiently.

The aim is to regenerate the equivalent of 300 million articles annually that would otherwise end up as textile waste, resulting in a production capacity of 50,000 tons of monomers per year that will then be repolymerized into Reju PET. This output will be transformed into Reju Polyester with 50% lower carbon emissions than virgin polyester.

“This is a major milestone for Reju,” said the company’s CEO Patrik Frisk. “Chemelot is the ideal environment for scaling our technology and integrating into a broader network of industrial power houses which are also focused on circularity. This is where we want to prove that textile-to-textile circularity at scale is achievable.”

Reju utilises proprietary technology originally developed by IBM Research.

“At Chemelot, we are committed to fostering sustainable innovation and enabling circular solutions across industries,” said Koos van Haasteren, CEO of Chemelot. “Reju’s Regeneration Hub One aligns with our mission to drive the transition toward a circular economy. By integrating its advanced textile recycling technology within our industrial ecosystem, we can help accelerate the reduction of textile waste and set new benchmarks for sustainability in the materials sector.”

The project will be subject to a final investment decision by the board of Technip Energies, the parent company of Reju.

Since its launch, Reju has opened a pilot Regeneration Hub in Frankfurt and partnered with Goodwill and Waste Management in the US to advance textile recycling in North America. It has also announced partnerships with textile recyclers Nouvelles Fibres Textiles in France and Cibutex in Amsterdam, along with textile collection specialist Rematrix in Italy.

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