Background
Aditya Birla Group (ABG) is a USD 48 Bn Conglomerate with global footprint in businesses such as Textiles, Fashion, VSF, Metals & Mining, Cement, Chemicals etc. It is largest producer of Viscose rayon in the world and one of the major player in Fashion and Textile in India.
Challenge
ABG, with a focus on sustainability has taken up multiple initiatives to bring circularity and sustainability in the centre of its business processes. Recycling of materials and developing recycling ecosystems across its business segments is a key step in that direction.
Within its Fashion and Textiles business, ABG has several initiatives in recycling. However, textile recycling is an area of specific interest.
ABG is a big player in Viscose Staple Fibre and Viscose Fibre Yarn. ABG is into the textiles and fashion segment which uses these fibres and yarns.
ABG are looking for partners/technologies/innovations which can address the question of textile recycling of blended clothes in the following areas :
- Sorting pre and post-consumer waste for blended clothes (decolouring, sorting into various components/cotton separation and VSF, acrylic or any other fibres)
- Separation technology for extraction of cotton from blended fabric (cotton-polymer, cotton-lycra, cotton-elastane) to separate out cotton (cellulose)
What's in it for you?
A successful collaboration could mean, forming a partnership to co-develop and co-launch the idea to market or a scale-up opportunity with various engagement models.
This is a global challenge and ABG are willing to engage with Start-ups, Organizations or universities etc. and solutions are prefered at least at demo/pilot stage of development.