GLYON
Glyon is building a containerized textile recycling plant that chemically breaks down polyester-cotton blends at the molecular level. Its CO₂-driven glycolysis process recovers BHET (the PET monomer) and clean cellulose fibers from post-consumer waste, enabling true circularity without pre-sorting. The system deploys directly at waste sources like sorters, laundries, and brands, making local, virgin-quality material regeneration a practical alternative to extraction.
- Clean Technology
- Hardware
- Manufacturing / Industry 4.0
- New Materials
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Problem
Global textile production relies on a linear take-make-dispose model that extracts finite resources—virgin polyester from oil and virgin cotton from strained land and water—while landfilling the resulting waste. This approach depletes natural resources and leaves the industry without a viable second stream of raw materials.
Solution
Glyon provides a containerized recycling plant, GLYON ONE, that chemically regenerates textile waste at the molecular level. The system uses a CO₂-driven glycolysis process to break down polyester-cotton blends directly—without requiring pre-separation into pure polyester or pure cotton streams—recovering BHET, the building block of PET, and clean cellulose fibers. These recovered materials are re-polymerized into virgin-quality raw materials ready to re-enter production. The plant is deployed on-site at waste sources such as sorters, laundries, brands, and municipalities, enabling local value recovery and making circular production the rational economic choice.
Target Audience
Primary customers are textile waste sorters, industrial laundries, apparel brands, and municipalities seeking on-site, scalable solutions for converting polycotton waste into reusable raw materials.
Features
- CO₂-driven glycolysis technology that depolymerizes polyester into BHET while recovering cotton fibers intact
- Accepts mixed polycotton waste directly into the reactor, eliminating the need for pre-separation into pure material streams
- Containerized, deployable format that ships to waste sources for on-site processing and local value recovery
- Outputs virgin-quality BHET (PET monomer) and cellulose fibers that can be re-polymerized for new production
- Designed to scale from single units to larger deployments across sorting facilities, laundries, brands, and municipalities