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Girbau has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of FINTEC Textilpflegesysteme GmbH, a German company specialising in the development and manufacture of textile finishing, folding, sorting and internal transport systems. The acquisition will take effect on 1 January 2027.

The transaction is part of Girbau’s growth strategy and will expand its range of complete solutions for industrial laundries. Fintec’s technology, systems and expertise will increase the share of proprietary products in industrial projects and improve integration between the different stages of the laundry process. Girbau also aims to further strengthen its service to end customers with an offering that combines proximity and excellence.

“Fintec represents a major leap forward in our value proposition, vertically integrating the design, manufacture and marketing of garment solutions” says Martí Giralt, CEO of Girbau.

Girbau and Fintec have worked together for more than 20 years, and the German company’s solutions were already part of Girbau’s industrial portfolio. The transaction takes this relationship a step further and strengthens the technological and service capabilities that both companies offer the market.

Fintec will continue to operate as usual with the same team of professionals, while gaining greater capacity for growth as part of Girbau.

“This transaction enables us to ensure the continuity of the expertise and solutions developed by Fintec, while opening a new chapter with greater industrial capacity and international reach” says Claudia Pollauf, Managing Director of Fintec.

With this acquisition, Girbau reinforces its growth plan and its ability to support laundries comprehensively in their projects, with more proprietary technology and a more complete end-to-end offering.

Editorial relevance: Very high – establishes a global baseline for available spinnable textile-to-textile recycled fiber and quantifies the gap between waste availability and usable output.

Textile Exchange has published a first global methodology for estimating textile-to-textile recycled fiber availability for apparel and home textiles. Developed with Fashion for Good, Reverse Resources and TEXroad, the framework combines available waste volumes with collection, sorting, processing and technology constraints to estimate how much material can actually become spinnable fiber.

The analysis projects recyclable textile feedstocks to increase from roughly 10 million tonnes in 2025 to around 15 million tonnes by 2030. Yet the quantity of recycled spinnable fiber is estimated at only 1–1.5 million tonnes in 2025, rising to approximately 3–5 million tonnes by 2030.

The scope covers post-industrial and post-consumer textiles and both mechanical and chemical recycling of cotton, polyester, nylon, manmade cellulosics, wool and and blends.
Textile Exchange stresses that the figures are directional: data quality remains uneven, and future editions are intended to incorporate more primary data from recyclers and suppliers.