Complete Fabrics Identification Solution

Fabric Composition Tester your complete fabrics identification solution.
Rapidly identify natural, man-made and blended fibres of all textures and colors with our textile identifier that requires no technical expertise to operate.

Key features

• Complete solution – no additional accessories, libraries or subscriptions required
• Super-easy to use
• Instant identification of textile composition (0.5 seconds)
• All major textile materials supported (10 materials and 13 blends)
• Cloud-enabled for detailed insights into scanning data, for operations and traceability
• Free iOS / Android app included
• Scalable – buy as many as you need to scale-up your sorting
• Programmable LED color

For example, you can configure the device to show green for the material you want to keep and red for rejected material.

Example Applications

Textile waste sorting Increase the value of your sorted fabrics by using instruments – the 0.5 second identification time means that you can sort a large number of garments quickly and accurately. The programmable LED (below the screen) allows you to configure a particular color for a specific composition (e.g. blue for > 90% cotton), so that your sorters can sort quickly.

Waste stream audit Use our app to record any additional information about each sample and then export all the results using the cloud interface, in an Excel-friendly format. This enables you to quickly and efficiently perform field waste stream audits.

Research & education Use our machine to educate the public about the benefits and challenges of textile sorting enabling efficient recycling!

Technical Details

Operating Principle Spectroscopy, within a band in the 1-2 μm range. On-board AI algorithms instantly interpret the results

The machine supports 10 pure materials and 13 blends:

• cotton-polyester
• cotton-viscose
• cotton-elastane
• cotton-nylon
• cotton-acrylic
• polyester-viscose
• polyester-elastane
• polyester-acrylic
• nylon-wool
• nylon-elastane
• wool-acrylic
• wool-polyester
• viscose-elastane

The performance & accuracy depend on a number of factors, such as correct measurement technique – the accuracy is typically ±10% for blends (that is, the material composition is ±10%) and 5-10% detection threshold for contamination in pure materials. The numbers represent the typical accuracy for the vast majority of samples, but cannot be guaranteed for every single sample.

It is not possible to separate chemically identical fibres, such as wool vs alpaca but the machine can separate e.g. cotton vs wool.