fibersort Valvan Baling Systems introduces the FIBERSORT. A new technology that enables the recycling industry to identify and separate textiles based on fiber type. Before today, valuable pure fabric was necessarily down cycled during the textile recycling process. Now, the FIBERSORT allows you to automatically sort this pure fabric, based on fiber type into different categories. The scanning technology we use is NIR Spectroscopy. This is a spectroscopic technique based on molecular absorptions measured in the Near Infrared part of the spectrum. This technique is sensitive to organic constituents and since all textile is organic, there is no limit to the types of fiber that can be recognized. Since this process requires a feed of one piece at a time, the supply of the textiles to the system must also be piece by piece. This can be done manually by an operator that takes the items from a pile and puts them piece by piece on a conveyor belt. There is no limit to the types of fiber that can be rec ognized.

a major leap forward into sustainable textile recycling The FIBERSORT capacity is currently at 1 piece per second, but by further testing and optimizing, we expect to increase the capacity even more. After the NIR scan, the spectrum is analyzed and compared with an extensive database of textiles to determine the fiber type: cotton, wool, acrylic, polyester and even a blend of the these fibers. The technology can be adapted to include other organic fibers after extensive testing with textiles of the required fiber type. A test stand is available in our premises. When the type of fiber is determined,...