Indorama Ventures joins T-REX Project

Global plastics and packaging material producer Indorama Ventures Public Co. Ltd., based in Bangkok, is joining the Textile Recycling Excellence (T-REX) Project, which aims to establish a harmonized European Union blueprint for the closed-loop sorting and recycling of household textile scrap to help the fashion industry transition to a more circular future.

According to Indorama, bringing together stakeholders from across the value chain will position the project at the forefront of sustainable innovation.

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Indorama will serve as the project’s designated spinning partner and will process the chemical recycled feedstock into polyester yarns and fibers through an extrusion process, ensuring the elimination of impurities. The company says its participation in the initiative also aligns with its goals of driving the circular economy and circular fashion industry through polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling and supply of recycled materials.

“Indorama Ventures has decades-long experience in manmade-fibers processes, especially in polyester, and we are committed to driving sustainable solutions and the use of circular feedstock across the value chain to help our partners achieve their sustainability goals,” says Diego Boeri, executive president of Indorama’s fibers business. “We look forward to leveraging our technical expertise to contribute towards the success of the textile-to-textile recycling within the T-REX Project.”

The T-REX Project launched in 2022 with the aim of creating a harmonized blueprint which will support the creation of a circular system for postconsumer textiles within Europe. The EU-funded project brings together a consortium of 13 players from across the value chain, along with research institutes, to transform end-of-use textiles from scrap into valuable feedstock and a commodity for new business models that can be adopted at scale.

Recycled yarn samples were first produced in 2023, and a lifecycle assessment is expected to be concluded by the spring of 2025, with project results expected to be announced in the summer.