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TEXAID – a company established by charities
  
  • collects and recycles more than 21,000 tonnes of used textiles each year 
  • works with more than 450 grassroots groups and generates funding for six Swiss charities
  • recycles the largest proportion of used textiles in Switzerland and creates jobs
  • employs almost 100 people in Switzerland 
  • makes a major contribution to the sensible recycling of raw materials
  
  
TEXAID news
  
TEXAID – the Film

What happens to all those clothes, shoes and home textiles (that are) disposed of in the red and white TEXAID containers and bags? Let us take a look behind the scenes of Switzerland's only textile recycling company. Enjoy our video «TEXAID – the best way for used textiles» (15 min.). You can order the DVD for free by sending a mail to pr@texaid.ch or by phone +41 (0)41 874 54 07.

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Mainstay in Germany

TEXAID takes over the ORT Reinigungstextilien GmbH in Darmstadt/DE. The company specializing in the distribution of cleaning cloths made from used textiles to the industry will, among others, assume the product sale for TEXAID's own cleaning rag production at Eger/Hungary. ORT shall also collect used textiles in Germany in the future. Currently the company generates a turnover of about one million Euro and employs eight people.

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Own cleaning rag production in Hungary

Cotton clothes not wearable any more are a sought-after cleaning rag material for the industry. Therefore appropriate goods from the TEXAID sorting facilities are now cut into cleaning rags at the Hungarian Eger. 35 employees are producing 2,000 tons thereof a year. TEXAID has a share of 70 percent in the existing firm and in the medium term wants to complement the current rag production with a sorting plant similar to the one in Sofia/Bulgaria.

 

Europe's most modern sorting facility at TEXAID

As of 7 February 2008, the sorting team of Texaid is working at the most modern sorting facility in Europe. The textiles collected in the red/white bags and containers are individually classified via voice control, recorded by the computer and automatically transferred to the correct repository. The collection organization invested almost four million Swiss Franks in the modernization of the largest textile sorting plant in Switzerland. The goals are long-term job security and a fifty percent increase in capacity.

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