Andritz Recycling

As an innovative technology supplier, ANDRITZ has also been a reliable partner for the processing industry in the megatrend of recycling for many years. Beyond the market opportunities, ANDRITZ also sees its technological commitment in the field of recycling as a responsibility for greater sustainability and careful use of the limited resources that our planet offers us. ANDRITZ Recycling is a cooperation between several technology areas of the ANDRITZ Group, consisting of ANDRITZ Pulp & Paper, ANDRITZ Nonwoven & Textile, ANDRITZ Feed and Biofuel, and others. One focus of this channel is on the area of technologies for the reprocessing of textiles. The world of textiles and the textile industry should be under no illusions about their responsibilities. The price of fast fashion is that making clothes accounts for around 10 percent of CO₂ emissions from human activity. But despite the need for circularity in our use of resources, the clothing industry has been fed by a distinctly linear value chain. Clothing is notoriously over-supplied, and while it might be resold, recycled into cloths or insulation, much of it ends up incinerated or in landfill. Textile-to-textile circularity has been conspicuously absent. ANDRITZ technology can help to stop growing these mountains of waste.