A European producer of workwear fabrics, Klopman is promoting an innovative circular economy project that aims to achieve significant energy savings and localize the supply chain in Europe.
Renaissance Textile, together with its partners, including Klopman and TDV Industries, aims to conclude an agreement with its clients to receive and recycle their clothes at the end of their first life cycle. This will allow the production of new fabrics, made with an increasing amount of recycled fiber, which can be put back on the market. A key part of the process is the advanced technology of the company’s 12,000 sq m ndustrial building in Laval, France, where garments are grouped, sorted, and then transformed into raw material ready to be trimmed and woven.
The project has set several targets for 2024, the most significant of which are an expansion to three fabric fraying lines and a target to recycle 3,000 to 9,000 tons of fabric by 2024. All this will translate into an estimated saving of 430,000 tons of CO2 by 2026, equivalent to the planting of about 57 million trees.
