GET TO KNOW OUR NEW CEO ERİK VAN DER WEERD

He is a chemical engineer, has worked as a responsible for new production and design in international companies for 10 years. After this he worked for 25 years in his family company Wevotex as managing director. Wevotex is delivering home textiles to hotels and hospitals. Because of the high volumes of cotton in their product offerings, He came in contact with SaXcell which is the ultimate recycling solution to solve the waste problem of end-of-life textiles. The SaXcell concept fascinated him from the very beginning and in 2019.He became more involved as Wevotex became one of the new shareholders and he was offered a position in the SaXcell board.

Circular Economy

Circular Economy depends largely on producers taking responsibility for recycling of products after consumers dispose them and for improving their design.

Our goal for the future is that eventually many more discarded textiles will be collected and processed into new products through our SaXcell process

Teaser opening pilot plant

Forcing clothing manufacturers to use recycled material

Every year, The Dutch throws more than 135 million kilos of textile into the garment bins. Only 1 percent of that enormous amount is recycled. Recyclers say that, i order to still achieve the climate goals, action is needed now.

Consortium welcomes pilot cotton recycling plant

A consortium of companies championing a new textile recycling technology has founded a new pilot production

From workwear to workwear - SaXcell

In 2011 the innovative fiber called SaXcell was created by researchers of the Sustainable & Functional Textiles research group.

New fabrics make recycling possible, but are they suitable for high street?

Fiber-based textiles claim to be highly recyclable, but fashion quality controls prevent them from going mainstream

Saxcell re-uses cotton to produce yarn

Billions of kilos of cotton are being thrown away annually, but the answer to this wasteful problem might be on its way.

SaXcell At Material District

SaXcell, an abbreviation of Saxion cellulose, is a regenerated virgin textile fiber made from chemically recycled domestic cotton waste.