Essaimons wins 2024 Refashion's Industrial Challenge
Created in 2021 on the initiative of PLAXTIL, ESSAIMONS is a social integration enterprise specializing in preparing plastic and textile waste for recycling.
ESSAIMONS' vision focuses on industry, the environment and inclusion. It works for a responsible future through recycling and vocational training. Based in Châtellerault, ESSAIMONS has a 1500m² workshop and employs 11 FTEs, the majority of whom are on integration schemes.
A WORD FROM THE CHAIRMAN
" The first challenge [...] is to ramp up production and move to industrial scale. We're going to install [...] the first optical sorting line for textiles dedicated to chemical recycling in France. The fact that we are supported by Refashion means that we are fully integrated into the industry, providing solutions both upstream (collectors-sorters) and downstream (textile-to-textile recyclers)."
Olivier Civil, President of Plaxtil and Essaimons
EcoTex LOOP PROJECT'S OBJECTIVES
Ensure the commissioning and industrial deployment of an automated spectral recognition sorting unit to prepare 10,000 to 12,000 tonnes of textiles per year, mainly for closed-loop recycling.
Type of CHF covered: Clothing and household linen, mostly cotton or polyester
Stage in the recovery chain: Sorting by spectral recognition (oversorting) and manual unraveling (material pre-processing)
Customer recycling technology: Chemical
Outlets (markets): Spinning / Recycled fiber
Final product: Over-sorted textiles composed mainly of cotton or polyester, untrimmed when necessary
