Fiber Shredder: Mechanical Recycling
Waypoint Forward is fabricating the textile circular economy by producing high quality fibers, as long as 2 inches in length, from post-consumer apparel. Polyester, cotton, wool, and blends that include elastane all become fibers after 90 seconds in our innovative machine. Read more here.
Image Credit: University of Minnesota Duluth, Alex Messenger
Fiber Shredder
The Fiber Shredder right now works to shred a hand towel's worth of fabric into usable quality fibers in 90 seconds. Currently we're designing the machine to scale up to supply chain volumes. We're always looking for new partner manufacturers, brands, and collectors.
Learn more about the National Science Foundation funded project that helped us develop this technology.
From Fabric to Fibers with less than 5% waste by weight
Strips, fibers & yarns, and fabric pieces for different materials. by Paulotfa under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Contact business founder Abigail Clarke-Sather for more information.
Email: waypointforward@gmail.com