Recycling used aramids

Teijin Aramid is committed to fully circular and sustainable aramid. With our innovative technologies, we are making strides toward our commitment. Achieving circularity requires the recovery of used and leftover aramids from various end products. With our aramid take back program, we encourage you to return the used and leftover aramid.

We aim to make our raw material consumption as efficient as possible with the goal of carbon neutral. Aligning with the Dutch Climate Agreement, we also pledge to reduce our energy consumption at our Netherlands-based  Twaron® and   Endumax® production plants. Reusing and recycling our production waste streams, including water and heat flows, plays a vital role in this approach.

Emerging technologies can bring us closer to a fully circular aramid chain. Together with several new partners BioBTX and participation in InRep, we are exploring new methods to recycle or separate our aramids from other materials at the end-of-life stage, so they can be reused in new products. These initiatives will drive the recovery of aramids from different intermediate and end products, including ballistic products, mooring lines, and protective apparel.

To become circular, recycled aramid fibers should have no change in properties when compared to virgin fibers. This is why we are always looking for new partners to help us improve the performance of recycled fibers. Purfi is one such partner with whom we collaborated to improve the performance of recycled Teijinconex®. Purfi’s rejuvenation technology breathes new life into used Teijinconex ®, restoring it to virgin fiber quality.