Advanced Textile Sorting Powered by Data: NewRetex develops and delivers fully automated textile sorting systems built on AI, sensor fusion, and real-time data processing. Our technology identifies and separates textiles by fiber composition, color, and quality, creating standardized, traceable outputs ready for recycling and production. From Fiber to Product-Level Sorting: Our systems go beyond material identification. Using advanced image recognition and machine learning, we classify textiles at product and style level, enabling automated sorting for reuse markets based on garment type and category to decrease manual sorting. This allows operators to extract higher-value fractions for resale, while simultaneously generating detailed data on product categories, reuse potential, and material flows. Data is the New Raw Material: Every item processed generates structured data. From fiber composition to product type and quality grading, our platform provides full transparency into textile streams, enabling documentation, traceability, and smarter decision-making across the value chain. Built for Industrial Scale: Our sorting lines are designed for high-capacity operations, helping waste management companies and recyclers handle growing textile volumes driven by EU regulation. From Sorting to Supply Chains: By combining technology, data, and material expertise, NewRetex bridges the gap between waste and new production, delivering reliable input for fiber-to-fiber recycling and high-quality reuse markets.
EURAMATERIALS
Based in Northern France, EuraMaterials is a French hub for sustainable competitiveness in materials and processes, with a strong focus on textiles. Since 2005, we support industrial, technological, and environmental transformations by mobilizing innovation in textiles and other materials, from R&D to industrialization, in France and across Europe. Our missions: Connect and support: We bring together companies, research centers, and technology platforms to foster collaboration, share expertise, and accelerate innovation. Turn ideas into solutions: We help transform concepts into innovation projects, prototypes, and industrial products, through engineering support, access to skills & know-how, and networks with a complete ecosystem. Enable growth: We support companies in financing research, project management, strategy, investments, … helping them to innovate and to develop sustainably. We actively foster collaboration between industry and research, enabling our members to find solutions, develop new technologies, and enter new markets. Our network includes companies and partners across Hauts-de-France, France, Europe, and internationally. We are particularly active in projects on: Technical textiles, textile recycling, and circular economy (e.g., RegioGreenTex, Re-Aps), Networking and standardization (e.g., EU-TEXTILE 2030 meta-cluster, European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing (ETP)), International cooperation (e.g., French-Japanese initiatives on advanced fibers ; Taiwan). By combining expertise, networks, and technological platforms, EuraMaterials helps its members innovate responsibly, scale sustainably, and transform the textile, materials, and manufacturing industries for the future.
Collective Circularity
Collective Circularity presents SortIQ: AI-powered sorting technology using smart glasses to identify textile brand, condition, and optimal destination in real time. Hands-free classification that transforms waste streams into revenue streams. We build circular recycling systems at scale, partnering with nonprofits, retailers, and manufacturers to prove sustainability isn’t just purposeful—it’s profitable. Experience live demos and see how we’re capturing the massive value hiding in textile waste.