# Novetex opens Taipo Eco-friendly Cotton Mill in Hong Kong

Novetex's Taipo Eco-friendly Cotton Mill, a 19,000-square-feet textile recycling plant in Tai Po Industrial Estate, Hong Kong, will start recycling yarn from textile waste in autumn 2018, with H&M as its first client.

- Type: New facility
- Announced: 2018-09-05
- Where: Tai Po Industrial Estate, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Starts operating: Sep 2018
- Status: announced
- Capacity: 3 tons of recycled fiber per day
- Products: recycled yarn from textile waste
- Sectors: [Industrial Textiles](https://endata.com/sectors/industrial-textiles.md)

## Companies

- [Novetex](https://endata.com/companies/34139.md)
- [H&M](https://endata.com/companies/34140.md) (customer)
- [Hong Kong Research Institute for Textiles and Apparel](https://endata.com/companies/34141.md) (partner)

## Sources

- [btimesonline.com](https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/102654/20180905/hong-kongs-spinning-mill-to-recycle-yarn-from-textile-waste-h-m-its-first-client.htm), 2018-09-05: "We can solve our local textile waste problem locally and that in such a small, compact city, sustainable [textile recycling] is feasible."

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