The Prato textile district strengthens its European leadership in fiber regeneration with the inauguration of the Plures Textile Hub, a €31.3 million infrastructure dedicated to textile waste recovery. The project, supported by €900,000 in PNRR funds and Industria 4.0 incentives, represents the first industrial-scale application in Italy of Valvan’s Fibersort technology.
Built in 2000 and fully modernised in 2023, the Firminy sorting centre is now operated by TrivalLoire, Suez’s dedicated subsidiary, under a public service delegation for Saint-Étienne Métropole, serving a catchment area of nearly 670,000 inhabitants. The facility processes approximately 45,000 tonnes of packaging waste annually, operating at a throughput of 15 t/h and relying on the advanced technologies of French intelligent sorting specialist Pellenc ST, a trusted partner since 2002.
