Textile-to-Textile-Recycling:

Driven by a deep commitment to quality, repairability, care, and second life, we do everything we can to keep our products in use for as long as possible. With textile-to-textile recycled materials, this ambition reaches a new level: new ORTOVOX products are created entirely from 100% post-consumer textiles. At the same time, we take circular thinking one step further by designing our products so they can be recycled again at the end of their life cycle.

One of our core objectives at ORTOVOX is to establish a true circular textile economy. With the RE:volution TS – our first circular and fully recyclable product from the MTB collection – we have brought this ambition to life for the very first time:

Recycling is not a new concept. We have all grown up separating glass, paper, and organic waste. In the textile sector, however, recycling is still not a widely established approach. Textile-to-textile recycling (T2T) converts cutting scraps, production waste, and discarded textiles into new fibers. Sounds good.

So why isn’t everyone doing it?
Recycled textile fibers depend heavily on the purity of the input material. While plastic bottles are made from a single type of plastic, many textiles consist of blended fabrics. In addition, there are seams, buttons, zippers, coatings, adhesives, and trims. This makes sorting and processing much more complex – and it is still often done manually. For product development, this means using as few different materials as possible and designing everything to be easily separable. For a highly functional ORTOVOX product, this is particularly challenging, because …