DENMARK, BJERRINGBRO, November 2024. Transparency and traceability are critical components of a sustainable textile sector. However, achieving both is not so simple. As a result, NewRetex is pleased to introduce Huginn, a revolutionary MES (Manufacturing Execution System) that at last provides full data traceability, real-time production monitoring, and comprehensive business insights to the textile sorting and recycling sector. 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 system gives a textile sorting and recycling business all the data they require to track and improve production, create new sorting formulas, and, of course, accomplish complete traceability of every cloth that is sorted and recycled.
Why is traceability important at all?
In order to satisfy the growing demand to lower the sector’s carbon footprint and promote circularity, the textile industry is putting more and more emphasis on recycled materials. Tracking and confirming recycled elements in a final product, however, is frequently a significant obstacle for the sector. This is currently addressed by NewRetex, whose ground-breaking MES was named after the legendary raven Huginn, a symbol of cognition and observation. It delivers real-time KPIs from the sorting and recycling processes after continuously gathering and analyzing data. NewRetex provides accurate material and color sorting together with completely automated data collection and traceability by combining this cutting-edge system with their cutting-edge automated sorting technology. As one of the first textile sorting companies in the world, the company received a GRS (Global Recycling Standard) certificate thanks to its creative automated sorting technology.
“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,” says Andreas Lehmann Enevoldsen, production development engineer at NewRetex and member of the team behind the development of the MES.
What are the benefits of the NewRetex MES?
Full traceability: For end customers, NewRetex MES provides complete traceability from textile waste to completed fiber products, guaranteeing adherence to laws like GRS certification and ECO Design requirements. Easy documentation is made possible by automated reporting, and product passport platforms are seamlessly integrated thanks to APIs.
Real-time data: Constant data collecting offers insightful information about each step of the recycling and sorting procedure. This enables plant managers to maintain their inventory, optimize their sorting processes, keep an eye on production rates, and automatically create reports that include data visualizations.
Mobile and web interfaces: Production workers may simply use their phones to access the system and use QR codes to register materials as they move through the factory. Supervisors or information screens can employ desktop interfaces.
Scalability: The system is flexible and made to change in response to market demands and technology advancements. Huginn can be used for large-scale value chain optimization and material pooling because it supports multi-site operations.
With sustainability at its core, NewRetex’s Huginn system raises the bar for textile sorting and recycling while providing a cutting-edge solution that not only satisfies industry standards today but also propels the shift to a data-driven circular economy. A crucial first step towards a closed loop is traceability and transparency. This stage has now been taken by NewRetex with its ground-breaking MES, Huginn.
