Reju selects site for French textile recycling facility

France-based textile recycler Reju has selected Lacq, France, as the location for its next industrial-sized Regeneration Hub.

Reju says this facility will strengthen France’s leadership in circular, low carbon industrial innovation. The plant will employ Reju’s proprietary depolymerization technology to recycle postconsumer textiles from national waste streams into rBHET that will then be repolymerized into Reju polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

The project is subject to final investment decision by the board of Paris-based Technip Energies, the parent company of Reju, and will generate 80 direct jobs and more than 300 indirect jobs, Reju says.

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“This French Regeneration Hub builds on our strategy to industrialize a circular postconsumer textile-to-textile model,” Reju CEO Patrik Frisk says. “By leveraging France’s ambitious circular economy agenda and advancing our technology to new markets, we are reinforcing our mission to transform textile waste into valuable, circular resources.”

Through its French hub, Reju says it aims to build scalable circular infrastructure in France and Europe, enabling textile-to-textile traceability to close the loop on fiber use. The project aligns with Reju’s established operations, including Regeneration Hub Zero in Frankfurt, Germany; the announced site selection in Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands; and the recently announced U.S. hub in Rochester, New York.

The Regeneration Hub will be located on the Induslacq platform, owned by TotalEnergies.