The fully automated facility sorts textile waste by color and fiber type using near-infrared technology. The idea was to make it possible to give old clothes a new lease of life, as raw material for new textiles.
But the market for sorted textile waste has not developed at the pace predicted and in the future, producers will be responsible for taking care of textile waste. Therefore, the current owner, municipally owned Sysav, has decided to sell.
"In retrospect, you can say that Sysav was too early - the market and legislation have not kept up with the pace that we, and many with us, believed in 2019," says Malin Dahlroth, CEO of Sysav, in a press release .
