Transparency and traceability are critical components of a sustainable textile sector. However, achieving both is not so simple. Consequently, NewRetex is pleased to introduce Huginn, its cutting-edge MES (Manufacturing Execution System), which at last provides the textile sorting and recycling sector with full data traceability, real-time production monitoring, and comprehensive business insights. Huginn was created to satisfy market demands as well as legal needs, such as the requirement for product passports to provide traceability and transparency throughout the value chain. In addition to helping manufacturers increase the efficiency and sustainability of their processes, NewRetex’s solution assists companies in adhering to upcoming EU laws like the ECO Design Directives. The solution gives a textile sorting and recycling business all the data they need to track and improve output and create new sorting recipes.
Why is traceability important at all?
The textile industry is increasingly focusing on recycled materials to meet the growing demand to reduce the industry‘s carbon footprint and increase circularity. However, tracking and verifying recycled materials in an end product is often a major challenge for the industry. NewRetex now offers a solution for this: the innovative MES was named after the mythological raven Huginn, which stands for thought and observation. It continuously collects and analyses data and provides real-time KPIs from the sorting and recycling processes. By integrating this advanced system with their innovative automated sorting technology, NewRetex offers precise material and colour sorting with fully automated data collection and traceability. 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.
NewRetex‘s production development engineer Andreas Lehmann Enevoldsen, who is a part of the team behind the development of the MES, states: “We believe that the approach of this system, inspired by traceability systems used in the food and drug industries, is the missing link in realizing a smoothly operating sorting business, while effortlessly complying to the demands and regulations of the future textile recycling market.”
What are the benefits of the NewRetex MES?
Full 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. Automated reporting enables effortless documentation, and APIs ensure seamless integration with product passport platforms.
Real-time data: Continuous data collection provides valuable insights into every stage of the sorting and recycling process. This allows plant managers to optimise their sorting operations, monitor production rates, track their inventory and automatically generate reports with data visualisations.
Mobile and web interfaces: Production workers can easily access the system from their phones to register material moving through the factory using QR codes. Desktop interfaces can be used by supervisors or information screens.
Scalability: The system is adaptable and designed to evolve with technological advances and market demands. Multi-site operations are supported, allowing Huginn to become a tool for material pooling and value chain optimisation on a large scale.
With sustainability at the centre of the company‘s mission, NewRetex‘s Huginn system sets a new standard in textile sorting and recycling, offering an innovative solution that not only meets current industry demands but also drives the transition to a data-driven circular economy. Traceability and transparency is an important first step on the way to a closed loop. NewRetex has now taken this step with its innovative MES, Huginn.
ABOUT NEWRETEX
NewRetex A/S is a Danish company specialising in AI-based and automated sorting of textile waste using advanced sensor, robot and automation technologies. As one of the world‘s first fully automated textile waste sorting companies to receive GRS certification, NewRetex is committed to driving innovation and sustainability in the textile industry.
