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Textile Recycling: Infibrity’s 100% Circular Solution

Textile Recycling: Infibrity’s 100% Circular Solution

The impact of the textile industry in numbers

10% of global CO₂ emissions
come from the textile industry

93 billion m³ of water are consumed every year

1,074 billion kWh is the estimated global electricity consumption

Three Paths for Textile Recycling:

What Is the Real Solution?

Not every path is truly sustainable.
When a garment reaches the end of its lifecycle, it can follow three possible routes.
Only one of them allows real recovery, preserving material, quality, and the future.
The Infibrity logo symbolically represents these three scenarios:
Stylized letter “b” in light gray with a circular arrow loop; initial dark-gray vertical arrow pointing downward.

Partial Recycling

Fibers are shortened and reused to produce lower-quality materials (downcycling).
A step forward, but not true circularity.

Incineration for Disposal

Garments are burned to produce energy.
This reduces waste volume but generates emissions and destroys valuable resources.

Total Circularity

The fabric is reprocessed to recover 100% of the fiber, keeping its original properties intact and enabling repeated production cycles.
The only long-term sustainable model.

Our Patent: How Total Circularity Works

At the heart of Infibrity lies an innovation that makes it possible to regenerate a fabric completely—recovering the fiber without shortening or damaging it.
This preserves quality and allows the material to re-enter the production chain.
This patented technology is the result of years of research and is effectively applied today to stitch-bond nonwoven fabrics.

The process also removes finishes applied to the fabric, allowing it to be fully regenerated.
In practical terms, the same fabric can be regenerated multiple times before the fiber shows any meaningful difference compared to virgin fiber.

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Our Commitment to a Sustainable Textile Industry

We have structured our efforts along three main lines:

Net-Zero Impact: Clean Energy

Reducing the environmental impact of electricity consumption through the installation of photovoltaic panels.

Mitigating Consumption: Patented Efficiency

Lowering the environmental impact linked to gas use in finishing processes, thanks to a patented technology that optimizes energy efficiency in the most intensive stages.

Finding the Solution: From Recycled Fiber to Regeneration

Moving beyond traditional recycled fibers—where we have over 30 years of expertise—towards a material regeneration system, aligned with the EU’s forward-looking roadmap.

Pathways to a Circular Textile

There are several routes to producing a truly sustainable fabric:
extending a product’s life to reduce its impact;
designing it with recycled materials;
or regenerating it so it is made from fibers within the same supply chain.

Our Production Modes

We work along all three routes. As a result, Infibrity fabrics can be:

Sustainably Designed

Products created to last, be repaired, upgraded, or fully regenerated

Reused and Repaired

Giving objects a second life and preventing them from becoming waste

Materially Recycled

Recovering raw materials from end-of-life products to create new goods

Long-lasting

Engineered for durability and resistance to washing

Recycled

Made from fibers obtained through conventional recycling (e.g., PET bottles)

Regenerable (Circular-Ready)

Designed so that 100% of the fiber can be recovered once the textile reaches the end of its life

The Pillars of Sustainable Development

Sustainability is a balance between environment, economy, and society, with the goal of ensuring a livable and fair future for all.

Environmental Sustainability

Using natural resources responsibly to preserve ecosystems, reduce pollution, and combat climate change

Economic Sustainability

Promoting a lasting, efficient, and resilient economy that does not harm the environment and ensures long-term prosperity

Social Sustainability

Ensuring equity, human rights, access to education and healthcare, and dignified living conditions for all

Your Opinion Matters!

Just one minute of your time can make a difference: fill in our questionnaire and help us build a more sustainable future.

Sharing your views on sustainability and pollution is a meaningful gesture.
Through dialogue and the exchange of ideas, we can build greater collective awareness for a better future.

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1. Before today, were you aware that textiles can be regenerated at an industrial level to create new products?

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