Rieter is a supplier of systems for short-staple fiber spinning.

The company develops and manufactures machinery, systems and components used to convert natural and man made fibers and their blends into yarn.

Their technology knows how to enables pre- and post-consumer goods to be recycled in similar applications as yarn production, Using rotor or ring recycling system.

Climate change and environmental degradation are some of the main issues facing us today.

With barely 1% of garments being recycled and three quarters of the world’s clothing ending up in landfill.

One of the goals within the textile industry is to “close the loop,” which refers to recycling and reusing products without material loss, using less raw material and diverting waste away from landfill.

Rieter uses its technology to offer a recycling spinning system

for ring and rotor spinning lines that enables to spin fibers from used

garments and waste into yarns.

Fiber length is an important parameters after the tearing

process, as it determine which spinning process (ring or rotor) should be used.

A rotor spinning line recycling system makes it possible, for

example, to spin yarn up to Ne 20 with a blend of 75% post-consumer material

and 25% virgin cotton, or yarn up to Ne 30 with a blend of 87,5% pre-consumer

material and polyester.

However, a ring recycling system makes it possible, for example,

to spin ring yarn up to Ne 20 with a blend of 60% post-consumer material and

40% virgin cotton, or yarn up to Ne 30 with a blend of 60% pre-consumer

material and 40% polyester.

Rieter recycling system make many different applications, from socks to sweaters. Chinos and workwear out of recycled materials. 

An example of the Recycling journey from a second hand T-shirt

into a chino pant:

A second-hand T-shirt

has its material torn to tear fibers

and recycled into high-quality yarns

to produce a chino pant