Spinning Recycled Yarn - Amsterdam Pilot Booklet Ch.10

Once we have used extrusion, mechanical recycling, or chemical recycling techniques to produce fibres and filaments from used textiles, we must move to the next step in the recycling process: spinning yarn. Spinning is one of the most complex and demanding parts of the textile production chain. While approaches to spinning are similar, there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. For instance, the material produced by chemical recycling can be spun into yarn using well-known standard yarn spinning techniques, but mechanically recycled material must use adapted methods. When we are able to spin a high quality yarn, we are able to produce high quality textile products. Millions of spinning machines around the globe produce millions of kilograms of yarn each day. As one might imagine, spinning technology is a broad and complex subject, so we will only focus on the highlights.