Reju has announced plans for further large-scale chemical textile‑to‑textile recycling plants. The Technip Energies subsidiary is now set to build an industrial "regeneration hub" in Lacq, south‑west France. In late January, it also announced its intention to site a full-scale plant at the Eastman Business Park in Rochester, New York in the US.
As previously reported, the first plant designed to roll out the company’s proprietary technology at an economically relevant scale is being built in the Netherlands. Like the Dutch plant, the Lacq and Rochester facilities will recover BHET from the polyester fractions of post‑consumer textiles, which will then be repolymerised into PET. All three projects have a target output of 50,000 tonnes of BHET per year. In comments made to trade journalists last week, Reju CEO Patrik Frisk said that this marks the start of a scaling roadmap that is ultimately expected to deliver between 700,000 and 800,000 tonnes of global annual capacity. ...
