Tex-TCat™
Recycling Textile Waste into Valuable Chemicals

Transforming mixed textile waste into high-value chemicals, providing a solution to keep clothing out of landfills.

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Tex-TCat™ converts textile waste into useful chemicals (BTX), solving recycling challenges for low-quality fabrics, blends, and costly logistics.

Anellotech has demonstrated the lab scale conversion of cotton, nylon and polyester textiles into valuable chemicals.The Company is seeking funding partners to execute development plans leading to TCat-8 Demo plant studies to generate data for the commercial plant design.

PROBLEM

90M TONS

of textile is generated each year

>60%

of textiles are blended fabrics

<30% TONS

of clothing is recycled or reused

Comparing Textile Recycling Technologies

Feedstock
Compatibility

Output

Contaminant
Handling

Scalability

Cost

Mechanical

Single material textiles

Low grade fibers

Extensive sorting toremove items

Widely scaled but limitedto specific materials

Low operating costs butlimited product value

Chemical

Single material textiles

Monomers or regenerated fibers

Can tolerate some level of impurities

Growing but constrained by high costs

High CapEx and OpEx due to complex processes

All types of textiles, including blends and contaminants

High quality aromatics and olefins

Convert organics into BTX or inerts

Designed for large scaleoperation (<200 KTA)

Moderate cost, optimized for high value outputs

Feedstock
Compatibility

Output

Contaminant
Handling

Scalability

Cost

Mechanical

Single material textiles

Low grade fibers

Extensive sorting toremove items

Widely scaled but limitedto specific materials

Low operating costs butlimited product value

Chemical

Single material textiles

Monomers or regenerated fibers

Can tolerate some level of impurities

Growing but constrained by high costs

High CapEx and OpEx due to complex processes

Feedstock
Compatibility

Output

Contaminant
Handling

Scalability

Cost

All types of textiles, including blends and contaminants

High quality aromatics and olefins

Convert organics into BTX or inerts

Designed for large scaleoperation (<200 KTA)

Moderate cost, optimized for high value outputs

Anellotech’s Tex-TCat can be used to recycle a broad range of natural and synthetic textiles, individually or as blends:

Non-textile components, such as plastic/polymer buttons, labels, zippers, fasteners and thread are also acceptable feedstocks.

Metallic components (zippers) can be separated pre-process using mechanical means.

Four Reasons why Tex-TCat is a Game Changer

1

Converts both natural and synthetic fibers into chemicals for new textiles.

2

Operates at scale, processing up to 1M tons of textile waste yearly.

3

Profitable operations allow incentives for waste collection.

4

Global licensing ensures rapid technology adoption.