Siptex, Swedish Innovation Platform for Textile Sorting, is the name of a research project and the name of the world’s first industrial-scale textile sorting plant.
The aim of the Siptex project was to create conditions for high-quality textile recycling through the establishment of automated textile sorting.
The Siptex plant, built during the project, uses near-infrared and visual spectroscopy (NIR/VIS) to sort textile waste in terms of fibre composition and colour.