Selenis, a supplier of high-quality speciality polyester solutions, is partnering with Syre to establish a textile-to-textile polyester recycling plant in Cedar Creek, North Carolina, to be fully operational by mid-2025.

Selenis and Syre are both developing advanced recycling technologies that will be combined on a single site allowing for a cost efficient, industrial scale operation.

“We are excited about this journey with Syre as it allows us to further invest in the US market with existing asset expansion and bring the benefits of new technologies closer to customers,” says Selenis CEO Duarte Gil.

Syre launched in March this year with $100 million in Series A funding and a mission to establish multiple textile-to-textile gigascale plants producing circular polyester across the globe, reducing CO2e emissions by up to 85% compared to the production of oil-based virgin polyester.

“This is truly an important milestone on our journey to drive the great textile shift, with more than two years of planning now moving into action,” says Dennis Nobelius, CEO at Syre. “We call this establishment a blueprint plant since the work there will lay the foundation for Syre’s continued global expansion, with the process being mirrored and scaled up in our upcoming gigascale plants globally. When scouting locations for our plants, we have to carefully balance critical factors such as renewable energy, infrastructure, cost, and access to feedstock.”

The strategic partnership agreement will see the existing Selenis production plant in Cedar Creek expand as Syre builds an adjoining new plant to form a continuous production flow, covering processes from pre-processing depolymerization to polymerization and PET-chips production.

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