TexRestore – Industrial restoration of textile products for a competitive and resilient Swedish manufacturing industry
The textile industry today is almost entirely linear, resulting in large amounts of waste, high emissions, and extensive resource consumption. The TexRestore project addresses this challenge by developing and testing a new model for large-scale textile restoration.
TexRestore aims to create a new industrial model for circular textile restoration that can scale from tens of thousands to millions of garments per year. By integrating collection, sorting, repair, washing, reconditioning, and distribution in centralized hubs, the project seeks to make textile life extension both profitable and climate-smart for fashion brands, workwear suppliers, public stakeholders, and retailers.
The goal is to develop, test, and validate a centralized restoration hub where all process steps are optimized, standardized, and documented through manuals, business models, and key performance indicators. These will form the basis for full-scale hubs in Sweden and across Europe. The project will also develop a digital twin of a large restoration hub and validate the patented Automated Repair Module (ARM) to reduce costs, improve quality, and enable rapid scaling of capacity.