Textile recycling has a huge potential as developed countries (particularly in Europe) are forcing textile brands to incorporate certain amount of post-consumer waste (regenerated fibres) in their end-products (apparel/garments). This is opening up exports market for the company.
The Ahmedabad-based Perfect Equipments Pvt Ltd – known for offering machineries for blow room, carding and textile waste recycling – highlighted its technological prowess in waste recycling at ITME 2022. “Presently, majority of recycled textile fibre are used in home textile and lower-end applications. We are focusing our efforts to use regenerated fibres again into wearables, thus offering big business opportunity as market for wearables is huge. This will help in achieving the goals of circular economy. We have already installed a few machines at our customers’ sites which are giving good results,†informed B Sankar, General Manager (Tech & Development), Perfect Equipments Pvt Ltd.
Textile recycling has a huge potential as developed countries (particularly in Europe) are forcing textile brands to incorporate certain amount of post-consumer waste (regenerated fibres) in their end-products (apparel/garments). This is opening up exports market for the company. “We have already exported machines to Europe. We are exploring other markets for recycling machine. At this expo, we have received orders for 2 projects in Bangladesh, where we have already supplied to few customers,†he added.
Perfect Equipments is also focusing on technology to open nonwoven trim waste. “While making nonwoven fabric, trim waste is generated. As there was no affordable technology available in India, people were throwing this waste. We offer technology to open this trim waste and use it along with virgin material,†opined Sankar.
Perfect Equipments had displayed samples of recycled materials at ITME 2022, which attracted a lot of attention from the visitors. The company showcased overhead travelling cleaner (in collaboration with Magitex) and carding machines of Bonino, Italy. Besides, the company displayed its automatic cot grinding, which has 11 international patents, at ITME. “The speed of production of this automatic cot grinder is more than double that of presently available machines in the market,†he said.
Besides recycling, Perfect Equipments, which is expanding its capacity to meet the growing demand for its products, is eyeing to tap technical textiles market. “We are working on developing machinery for technical textiles and also exploring opportunity to work with Bonino for offering solutions for technical textiles. We expect projects from technical textile to come our way as well,†added Sankar.