New Textile Sorting Plant in United Arab Emirates

The German Soex Group, a company in the field of used textile marketing and recycling, has announced that it will build a new sorting facility in the United Arab Emirates.

The operation of the plant (investment: 5 million Euro) located in Hamriyah Free Zone is scheduled for the middle of 2017. According to the company, it intends to export from the new site 50 percent of its products to African countries and 25 percent to Eastern Europe and the Middle East respectively. It is also planned to implement recycling projects in Hamriyah at a later date. As reported, the expansion of storage and sorting capacities in the United Arab Emirates will enable the company to react more flexibly and cost-efficiently to future shifts of the market. The Soex Group is active on an international scale. With offices and shareholdings in five countries and about 1,000 employees, the group covers the entire value chain for used textile collection, marketing, recycling and reuse on six continents.

Photo: Soex Group

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