DENMARK, BJERRINGBRO, November 2024. Transparency and traceability are critical components of a sustainable textile sector. However, achieving both is not so simple. Thus, NewRetex is pleased to introduce Huginn, its cutting-edge MES (Manufacturing Execution System), which at last provides full data traceability, real-time production monitoring, and comprehensive business insights to the textile sorting and recycling sector. Huginn was created to satisfy market demands and legal obligations, including the necessity for product passports to provide traceability and transparency across the value chain. In addition to helping manufacturers increase the efficiency and sustainability of their operations, NewRetex’s solution assists companies in adhering to upcoming EU laws like the ECO Design Directives. The system gives a firm that sorts and recycles textiles all the data they need to track and improve production, create new sorting recipes, and, of course, accomplish complete traceability of every textile that is sorted and recycled.
What is the significance of traceability?
In order to satisfy the growing need to lower the sector’s carbon footprint and promote circularity, the textile industry is putting more and more emphasis on recycled materials. Tracking and confirming recycled elements in a final product, however, is frequently a significant obstacle for the sector. This is currently addressed by NewRetex, whose inventive MES was called after the legendary raven Huginn, who represents observation and thinking.It continually gathers, evaluates, and presents KPIs from the recycling and sorting procedures in real time. NewRetex provides accurate material and colour sorting together with completely automated data gathering and traceability by combining this cutting-edge system with their creative automated sorting technology. This innovative automated sorting technology was also what earned the company a GRS (Global Recycling Standard) certificate as one of the first textile sorting companies worldwide.
“We believe that the approach of this system, inspired by traceability systems used in the food and drug industries, is the missing link in realising a smoothly operating sorting business, while effortlessly complying to the demands and regulations of the future textile recycling market,” says Andreas Lehmann Enevoldsen, production development engineer at NewRetex and member of the team behind the development of the MES.
What advantages does the NewRetex MES offer?
Complete traceability: NewRetex MES enables full traceability from textile waste to finished fibre products for end users, ensuring compliance with regulations such as ECO Design guidelines and GRS certification. APIs provide smooth interaction with product passport systems, and automated reporting makes documentation simple.
Real-time data: Ongoing data gathering offers insightful information about each phase of the recycling and sorting procedure. This enables plant managers to maintain their inventory, streamline their sorting processes, keep an eye on production rates, and automatically create reports with data visualisations.
Web and mobile interfaces: Production workers may simply use their phones to access the system and use QR codes to register materials as they go through the factory. Supervisors or information screens can employ desktop interfaces.
Scalability: The system is flexible and built to change in response to market needs and technology advancements. Huginn may be used as a tool for large-scale value chain optimisation and material pooling since it supports multi-site operations.
With sustainability at the core of its purpose, NewRetex’s Huginn system is a cutting-edge solution that not only satisfies industry expectations today but also propels the shift to a data-driven circular economy. It sets a new standard in textile sorting and recycling. A crucial first step towards a closed loop is traceability and transparency. This stage has now been taken by NewRetex with their ground-breaking MES, Huginn.
CONCERNING NEWRETEX
A Danish firm called NewRetex A/S specialises in sorting textile waste utilising modern sensor, robot, and automation technologies in an AI-based and automated manner. NewRetex, one of the first completely automated textile waste sorting businesses in the world to get GRS accreditation, is dedicated to promoting sustainability and innovation in the textile sector.