Ereks-Blue Matters Launches Textile Recycling Consultancy
Ereks-Blue Matters is applying its expertise in producing jeans with sustainable processes to a new complementary venture.
The Turkish garment manufacturer announced the launch of Rematters Textile Recycling Solutions, a consultancy that specializes in establishing circular value streams in the textile industry.
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Rematters supports clients in setting up textile recycling centers with technical and operational expertise and a network of input and output resources. The company’s goal is to cultivate a supply chain that champions textile circularity while driving significant benefits for the environment and clients’ financial performance.
“Our team of professional field experts has a combined experience of over 50 years in the textile industry,” said Romain Narcy, Rematters CEO. “We meticulously examine customers operations and requirements; we thoroughly analyze their needs and challenges.”
With access to feedstocks of post-industrial and post-consumer textiles and outputs (garments sorted and cleaned for mechanical or chemical recyclers, and fibers for spinners and weavers), Narcy said the company has the necessary connections to help clients across various sections develop circular ecosystems.
“We don’t work only in [the] denim sector,” he said. “Our expertise in textiles, including post-consumer garments, workwear, home textiles, carpets, mattresses, and technical applications, allows us to provide tailored recommendations for optimizing sorting and recycling processes across the textile supply chain. Our clients include collectors, sorters, recyclers, brands looking for solutions to maximize circularity in textile[s].”
Rematters takes into consideration the roadblocks that Ereks-Blue Matters encountered on its way to becoming one of the world’s most sustainable jeans factories. During lockdown in 2020, the company used the pause as an opportunity to carve out a roadmap to 100 percent circularity, which it aims to achieve by 2030.
“We saw many challenges such as the lack of separate collection streams for textiles, the need to scale up smart sorting and the need for improve[d] technology that can preserve the original fiber length for mechanical recycling. [There was also a] lack of financing and [opportunities to scale] chemical recycling,” Narcy said.
Other hurdles were linked to the sanitization of post-consumer goods, chemical contamination by azo-dyes or formaldehydes during original production processes and the removal of buttons, rivets and zippers.
“After a deep interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral dive in the industry, we see that there are now solutions available on the market. We want to offer our clients these solutions,” he said.
Rematters launches at a time when new regulations like the EU Green Deal, which will set mandatory thresholds for product durability, repairability and recycled content, are forcing the textile industry to address overconsumption and overproduction.
Mills and brands are seeking solutions, however. Zara owner Inditex committed last week to purchase the “first available” 2,000 metric tons of Renewcell’s Circulose, a pulp produced from cotton-rich textile waste. The fiber was featured in several Spring/Summer 2025 denim collections earlier this month at Kingpins Amsterdam. Groups like British waste management firm MYGroup and the UK Fashion and Textile Association have unveiled plans to combat textile waste as well.
“It seems that the needs of the planet, public policies and our thoughts are converging,” he said.
