US-based textile recycling technology provider CIRC has partnered Austrian technology group Andritz to commercialize CIRC’s patented textile recycling technology. As per Textile Today, Andritz will design and manufacture continuous processing equipment for CIRC facilities worldwide. CIRC technology can also separate and recover mixed polymer strands, including any blend of polyester and cotton.

Jorma Latva-Kokko, Vice-President-Mechanical Pulping, Andritz says Andritz will help CIRC capture a significant portion of the global circular textile market with its expansive engineering and equipment capabilities. Julie Willoughby, Chief Scientific Officer, CIRC adds, the Andritz team is working shoulder-to-shoulder with CIRC to implement its vision of a circular economy for textiles and beyond.

CIRC makes the technology to source nature’s raw ingredients and enables fashion brands to harness its proprietary technology that resources and re-harvests raw ingredients out of clothing waste. It aims to entirely eliminate the demand for raw ingredients needed to make clothing by creating new clothes entirely out of old ones.