Green Machine: Post-consumer Blended Textile Separation and Recycling by Hydrothermal Treatment Phase II

• The whole process uses only heat, water and less than 15% of green chemical with a recovery rate of over 97% for polyester fibres in 2 hours.
• The technology of Green Machine has been applied in textile recycling and production. Monki, a fashion brand that focus on sustainability, is the first fashion brand to use textile materials made from the Green Machine in their collection. PT. Kahatex, an established textile manufacturer in Indonesia, has the first industrial scale system of the Green Machine operational there, with the processing capacity of 1.5 tons per day. While ISKO^TM, one of the world’s leading denim producers, acquired a licensing agreement for Green Machine.

• Green Machine offers a commercially viable and complete blended-textile recycling solution and the system is easy to construct and operate.
• Compared to the 67 GJ needed for producing every ton of PET, this eco-friendly Green Machine uses only 19 GJ to produce the same amount of separated polyester fibres, saving 70% of total production energy used. 

The separated fibres with no depolymerisation are ready for spinning and manufacturing of new fabric, while the cellulose powders, decomposed from the cotton, can be applied to functional products such as super-absorbency materials and regenerated cellulose fibres.