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JEPLAN, INC. (Headquarters: Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture; Representative Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer: Masaki Takao) and TEIJIN FRONTIER CO., LTD. (Headquarters: Kita-ku, Osaka City; President and Chief Executive Officer: Yasunari Hirata) will begin exploring new initiatives concerning the resource circulation for apparel.
The initiative under consideration aims to further promote the resource circulation of apparel by collaborating across the entire recycling process. This includes linking the two companies' respective used clothing collection networks, sorting and separating collected clothing, and ultimately achieving resource recovery through appropriate recycling methods.
■ Background of the Initiative
Since 2010, JEPLAN has partnered with apparel brands to collect used clothing at retail locations. Collected clothes are effectively utilized as resources through reuse and recycling in collaboration with partner companies. Furthermore, JEPLAN is engaged in “fiber-to-fiber” recycling, regenerating recycled polyester from 100% polyester clothing. Through the development of its own apparel brand “BRING™” utilizing this recycled polyester, JEPLAN aims to realize a circular economy.
TEIJIN FRONTIER has been refining its polyester recycling technology for many years since it began selling ECOPET®, a recycled polyester fiber, in 1995, and from 2022 will collaborate with Fiber CDM Co.,Ltd. a company engaged in the reuse and recycling of used garments, to build a circular system through collection, sorting, and efficient recycling of used garments.
JEPLAN and TEIJIN FRONTIER have decided to work together to improve the efficiency of clothing collection and create a reuse and recycling system, in the expectation that further resource recycling can be promoted by leveraging each other's strengths in cooperation.
■ Future Developments
In the future, we will expand our efforts toward establishing a new “fiber-to-fiber” recycling system, aiming to build a framework that promotes the reuse and recycling of discarded clothing.
■ About JEPLAN, INC. (https://www.jeplan.co.jp/en/)
Representative: Representative Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Masaki Takao
Establishment: January 2007
Main Business: Business based and related to PET chemical recycling technology (for pet bottles, polyester), etc
The JEPLAN Group aims to realize a circular economy under the mission "We circulate our world”. We target waste PET (PET bottles, polyester fibers, etc.) and use proprietary PET chemical recycling technology to break it down to the molecular level and remove impurities, thereby regenerating it into recycled materials of the same quality as those derived from petroleum. This proprietary recycling technology helps to recycle limited resources and reduce CO₂ emissions.
The JEPLAN Group operates PET chemical recycling plants at PET REFINE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture and at the Kitakyushu Hibikinada Plant in Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and is also promoting technology licensing business in Japan and overseas.
■ About TEIJIN FRONTIER CO., LTD.( https://www2.teijin-frontier.com/english/)
Representative: President and Chief Executive Officer, Yasunari Hirata
Establishment: October 2012 (Founded in 1869)
Main businesses: Sales and import/export transactions of textile raw materials and apparel products, industrial materials, vehicle materials, household goods, resins, films, and chemicals.
TEIJIN FRONTIER globally provides products and services that anticipate market needs in a wide range of fields, from apparel fibers to industrial materials, through a proprietary business model that incorporates the functions of a manufacturer into a trading company platform. In addition, in order to realize a sustainable society, TEIJIN FRONTIER is actively involved in the development of polyester recycling technology as well as the promotion of the construction of a circular system to sort and recycle polyester materials from discarded garments to produce high-quality recycled raw materials.
【The original press release is in Japanese】
20251014【プレスリリース】 JEPLANと帝人フロンティアが衣料品の資源循環の取り組みを開始.PDF