• Colour Removal
• Separation of fibres from blends (separated fibres to be recycled via relevant methods
• Removal of coatings and disruptors (removed components - side flows) to be recycled via relevant methods

• Cutting in to pieces
• Removal of trimmings and hard parts
• Tearing and coarse opening
• Grinding (e.g. for chemical recycling methods)

A method where polymer structure is broken into its building blocks, monomers. Polymers can be then built back via re-polymerization. The formed polymeric materials are like new, virgin material and can be used to make fibres or other products.

A process of melting thermo-plastic synthetic fibres like PES, PA, PP and PE into polymer melt, which can be used to make new fibres or other products.

Chemical recycling is carried out by dissolution of fibres into polymer solution (polymers are chain-like molecules forming the fibre structure). Polymer solution can be used to spin new fibres or to make other products such as films.

A method, where textiles are recycled on fibre level using mainly mechanical processing. First textile products are cut to pieces, which are then processed by shredding and opening steps until textile structures (fabrics and yarns) are dismantled back to separate fibres.

Sideflow of mechanical recycling (short fibres) can be used as input material in other recycling methods.