Developed by French innovation cluster Techtera in the course of Solstice European project, Valoramix is a decision-support tool that helps sorting, material preparation, and recycling professionals optimize their material flows and valorisation pathways.
By placing economic simulation at the heart of decision-making, it provides an objective perspective to guide choices, improve processes, and accelerate the transition toward a more circular and resilient textile industry.
Assess material streams and connect with relevant recovery outlets
Align material preparation capacity and equipment scale with evolving market needs
Spot available post-consumer materials with upcycling potential.
Identify feedstocks that match your specifications and optimize the quality of your supplies.
Refine the vision of your feedstock or requirements by
material, format, condition and color. Benefit from a shared framework across the value chain
Map your current textile feedstock streams, from sourcing to outlets valorisation.
Uncover residual feedstock units with untapped valorisation opportunities.
Evaluate the compatibility between specifications and feedstocks.
Prioritize the most relevant valorization pathways for your materials, or identify new sources of supply.
Compare scenarios by rearranging and integrating process steps and technologies. Reveal innovative pathways to bridge feasibility and implementation.
Generate a cost estimation and test viability of each scenario. Make informed decisions.
Out of 16kg textile waste yearly generated for each European citizen, only 4.4kg is collected to this day. As collection is growing, and upcoming flows will only increase the need for efficient valorisation routes.
Exports of post-consumer textiles from Europe have doubled over the past 20 years, reaching 1.4 million tons per year. With export markets saturating, local sorting and recycling centres are under growing pressure to manage increasing flows.
Each year, around $150 billion worth of textile materials is lost — a massive untapped value, whose partial recovery alone could offset the raw material purchases of the world’s 30 largest fashion companies.
Less than 1% of textiles will be recycled into new fibers. Most flows are reused or recycled in open-loop processes, showing the untapped potential for circular innovation.
TECHTERA is the competitiveness cluster dedicated to the French textile industry.
The cluster brings together a network of nearly 280 members — companies, research laboratories, technical centers, universities, and engineering schools — to stimulate the sector’s innovation potential.
TECHTERA is also actively involved in strategic initiatives supporting the textile industry. Since 2005, more than 318 collaborative R&D projects labeled and supported by TECHTERA have been funded, representing a total budget of nearly €760 million.
Launched in May 2024 for a duration of 42 months, SOLSTICE brings together a European consortium of over 24 organisations from the textile, plastics, chemical, and research sectors, coordinated by Axel’One.
Its ambition: to accelerate the transition towards a circular value chain built on the principles of the 5Rs — Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, and Recycle.
The project deploys tangible solutions across four demonstration areas in Europe to:
- reduce textile waste,
- develop advanced chemical recycling technologies,
- enhance traceability through product digital passports,
- and support the replication of circular models at the regional level.
- By fostering innovation and industrial collaboration, SOLSTICE aims to avoid more than 4 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions per year by 2030.
The SOLSTICE project is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe programme, Grant Agreement No. 101134989.
