Michelin CGDE : Syntetica and Michelin’s Center for Sustainable Materials announce an unprecedented collaboration to accelerate the industrialisation of a pioneering nylon recycling technology

The global textile industry faces a major environmental challenge: today, less than 1 % of textiles are recycled. The majority of technical garments contain mixed synthetic fibres, making recycling complex, or even impossible, using conventional methods.

Syntetica has developed a proprietary, low-temperature chemical process capable of recycling nylon-rich mixed textiles directly, without pre sorting, to produce Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 of high purity, compatible with textile, automotive, and industrial applications.

The pilot at the CMD targets the recycling of several tonnes of textile waste from the initial phase, with a progressive scale-up towards industrial volumes for the future demonstrator facility from 2027.