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Textiles Recycling Expo to present winners of first recycling awards


The first Textiles Recycling Awards will take place at the Textiles Recycling Expo in Brussels this month. Winners of the six awards categories will be announced at a ceremony hosted by Mariska Boer (left), President of Recycling Europe Textiles, and which will bring together industry leaders, innovators, recyclers, brands and policymakers from across the textile recycling sector. The awards recognise the individuals, companies and collaborative initiatives driving


progress towards a more circular textiles industry, said AMI, organiser of the event and publisher of TextilesLoop, when it revealed the following finalists.


Retailer of the Year Finalists: Mango


Armedangels (Social Fashion Company) Beyond Retro / Bank & Vogue


Product of the Year Finalists:


Alsico – Fitzroy


Teixits Torné – Transforming mixed- colour textile waste into high-value circular fabrics


Beyond Retro Ltd / Bank & Vogue – Coach x Bank & Vogue – Soho bag


Elis – Workwear to workwear FibreTrace – Material verification


technology for a circular textile industry


Textile Recycling Project of the Year Finalists:


Circ – Scaling textile-to-textile recycling with the world’s first commercial polycotton solution


Recover – From waste to fibre: Recover’s blueprint for circular textiles


BlockTexx – Scaling textile-to-textile recycling for blended fibres at commercial scale


Jiangsu Recycolor New Materials


Pedrosa & Rodrigues – Circlo industrial ecosystem engineering high quality circular knits


Award Sponsor: Redonate


Innovation in Recycling Technology Award


Finalists:


Jiangsu Reo-Eco Tech Group – BioCulus powered by Reo-Eco Enzymatic Recycling


Picvisa Machine Vision Systems – The integrated Picvisa and Girbau solution


MacroCycle Technologies – Circular textile at price parity through non- depolymerizing chemical recycling


Yuantian Biotechnology (Tianjin) – Enzymatic recycling technology


Renasens – Turning blended textile waste into high-quality recycled fibres


Rising Star Award Finalists:


Epoch Biodesign – Jacob Nathan


Matoha Instrumentation – Dr Hans Hon Sang Chan and Dr Martin Holicky


Beyond Retro / Bank & Vogue – Beyond Retro x Seasalt Collection


Green Worms – End Textile Waste Alliance


Tom Atkin – Fibre to Fibre, Finance 2 Fashion and Atkin Clothing


Textile Collection & Sorting Award Finalists: Saubermacher


Green Worms Waste Management Teciteca & Teci


Manuela Catania – Realm of Senses


Texet Benelux – Untagged Movement Award Sponsor: EVK


The Textiles Recycling Awards Ceremony is free to attend for all registered visitors to the Textiles Recycling Expo on 24–25 June at


Brussels Expo, Belgium. Visitors can register now for their free ticket to attend the exhibition, conference and awards ceremony here: https://events.amiplastics.com/textiles-recycling-expo


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