Textile Waste Recycling Machine Market, Opportunity, Growth Drivers, Industry Trend Analysis and Forecast, 2025-2034

The Global Textile Waste Recycling Machine Market was valued at USD 4.1 billion in 2024 and is estimated to grow at a 4.5% CAGR to reach USD 6.25 billion by 2034.

Market growth is driven by tightening sustainability mandates, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) pressure, and the sheer surge in textile waste created by fast fashion and industrial-scale apparel manufacturing. As brands and manufacturers move from recycling targets to measurable circularity outcomes, investment is shifting toward higher-throughput machines, smarter sorting, and process designs that can handle real-world waste streams, especially mixed and contaminated textiles. The market’s momentum is further supported by growing consumer demand for recycled fibers and the rising need for scalable recycling infrastructure that reduces landfill dependence while enabling fiber recovery for reuse in yarns, fabrics, and downstream applications.

Technology is reshaping this space from traditional, labor-heavy recycling into more automated and data-led operations. Innovations such as automation, AI-enabled sorting and quality control, and integrated recycling approaches improve recovery efficiency, reducing operational variability and supporting higher-grade outputs that are used in fiber-to-fiber pathways. At the same time, the market is balancing growth opportunities against practical challenges, such as high initial capital costs and operational complexity, so buyers increasingly prefer vendors that can deliver not only equipment, but also installation support, performance tuning, training, and lifecycle service. This is turning textile recycling machines into “systems” rather than standalone assets, with competitive advantage increasingly tied to uptime, yield, and output consistency.

The mechanical recycling machines segment generated USD 1.15 billion in 2024, supported by their wide deployment for physically breaking down textiles into reusable fibers, especially in cases where the feedstock is cleaner and more uniform (commonly pre-consumer waste). This segment stays dominant because it is relatively cost-effective, scalable, and well-aligned with high-volume processing needs in major textile-producing regions. Mechanical systems are also benefiting from upgrades in automation and improved process control, helping operators improve fiber recovery while meeting rising sustainability requirements from brands and regulators.

The cotton segment reached USD 1.63 billion in 2024, as cotton remains one of the most widely used fibers across apparel and home textiles, creating a large, consistent stream of both pre-consumer cutting waste and post-consumer garments that can be collected and processed. Cotton waste is particularly suited to mechanical recycling routes where textiles are shredded and reprocessed into reclaimed fibers for applications such as open-end yarn, nonwovens, insulation, wiping cloths, and blended regenerated products, making recycling machinery investments easier to justify in high-volume cotton-processing hubs.

Asia Pacific Textile Waste Recycling Machine Market captured USD 1.66 billion in 2024, supported by its massive textile and apparel manufacturing base and rising sustainability investments aimed at reducing landfill waste and strengthening circular economy outcomes. The region’s leadership is reinforced by the presence of both industrial-scale recycling hubs and cost-effective systems for SMEs, along with increasing use of automation and AI-based sorting to handle diverse textile waste streams more efficiently.

Key players involved in the Global Textile Waste Recycling Machine Market: Andritz, Rieter, TOMRA, Autefa Solutions, Balkan Textile Machinery Ltd, Bonino Carding Machines S.r.l., Dell'Orco & Villani Srl, HSN Machinery Limited, Loptex SRL, Margasa Proyectos e Ingeniería Textil SL, Masias Maquinaria, M. R. Industries, Multipro., Starlinger. Companies are strengthening their foothold by moving beyond standalone machines into integrated recycling lines, combining shredding, cleaning, sorting, and fiber recovery to deliver predictable output quality and higher plant uptime. They are also accelerating automation and AI-enabled sorting/quality control to process mixed textile streams more efficiently and reduce labor dependence, which is critical for scaling post-consumer recycling. Another major strategy is developing hybrid and advanced solutions that expand capability from traditional mechanical recycling toward chemical pathways for blends and higher-purity outputs, supporting fiber-to-fiber circularity goals. Show more