Recycled Polyester that Meets the Highest Industry Standards
Demand for recycled polyester is rising fast, yet supply remains limited, especially for fibers that truly close the loop. With our technology and partnerships with leading players such as Borgstena and National, we at Rewin are proving that textiles can become textiles again, at scale and with uncompromising quality.
Polyester is the world’s most used fiber, found in clothing, cars, and interiors alike. But its fossil origin gives it a heavy climate footprint. To meet sustainability goals, brands are pushing to use more recycled polyester, yet less than 1% of global textile waste is recycled fiber-to-fiber. Most “recycled” polyester still comes from PET bottles, not textiles.
Closing the Loop
Our patented chemical recycling technology changes that. We can break down even complex polyester blends, dyed, mixed, or contaminated, into pure building blocks for new fiber. The process tolerates impurities and enables true textile-to-textile recycling at scale.
Borgstena – Driving Circularity in Automotive
In the automotive industry, material performance is everything. Partnering with Borgstena, we’re enabling production waste from their operations, making them both a supplier of polyester waste and a potential user of our recycled material.
“We have rigorous demands on all the materials we use, especially when it comes to durability and safety. At the same time, we see the value in sustainable innovation and are impressed by Rewin’s recycled polyester, which matches virgin quality,” says Anneli Wärn, Material designer at Borgstena.
Together with Borgstena, we aim to demonstrate that recycled polyester performs equally well in even the most demanding applications – a quality already verified by several world-leading polyester producers.
Range and Versatility at National
Our collaboration with National, a Swedish international supplier of polymer-based parts for the automotive and transport manufacturing industries and brand OEMs. This partnership allows us to test the recycled material we develope across multiple product types, from furniture to car interiors, in textile, plastic, and composite applications.
“Rewin enables a much-needed feedstock to re-enter our value chain, and with coming developments in digital product passport, it will allow us to pre-requisite the recycled material standard that’s needed across materials in polyester. This is an important innovation that potentially offers resilience against destability and also saving resources on a large scale” says Johan Kullberg Development Technical Project Manager at National
From Swedish Pilot to Global Change
By combining our technology with Borgstena’s and National’s expertise and market reach, we are creating a full-scale circular system – from textile waste to finished product.
The result: high-quality recycled polyester that replaces virgin fiber, reduces emissions, cuts textile waste, and accelerates the shift to a truly circular textile industry.
“This is just the beginning,” says Henrik Wene, Co-founder at Rewin. “Once proven at scale, this model can expand globally – closing the gap between the need for and the supply of genuine textile-to-textile recycled polyester.”