Inyotex Recycling B.V. - Leading Textile Recycling and Secondhand Wholesale Supplier

Company overview

Inyotex Recycling B.V. is a Dutch family business established in 2005, specialising in sorting used textiles and operating internationally. The company works from a central storage, transfer and sorting hall at Eemhavenweg 18, 3089 KG Rotterdam, inside the port area.

The scale figures are consistent and easy to check against each other: roughly 20 tonnes of collected textiles processed daily, and 400 tonnes of production per month. That is a mid-sized specialist operation, large enough for category depth but small enough to talk to.

KIWA certification of the sorting process

Inyotex holds KIWA certification for an Assessment Based Optimized Textile Sorting Process, and is a member of VHT, the Dutch association for the retrieval of textile.

This deserves more attention than a certification line usually gets, because of what is being certified. Most quality marks in this trade cover the company or the environmental management system. This one covers the sorting process itself, which is the thing a buyer actually argues about when a bale disappoints.

A certified sorting process means the criteria are written down, applied consistently and audited by an outside party. When you dispute a grade with a supplier whose process is certified, there is a documented standard to point at rather than two opinions. That is worth real money on a first order, and it is exactly what you cannot get from a supplier who describes its grades with adjectives. Buyers should still read the underlying grades vocabulary and ask which levels the certified process produces, since certification of the method does not by itself tell you the quality tiers on offer.

More than 100 products in six categories

The company states that its intake allows it to offer more than 100 different products, subdivided into six categories. Sorting happens in several steps, based on condition and on material.

A hundred product lines from 400 tonnes a month is a high ratio, and it tells you where this supplier's value sits. A plant running the same tonnage into ten lines is selling volume; a plant running it into a hundred is selling specification. For a buyer that means you can ask for something narrow, a single category in a single condition band, rather than accepting a general mix and sorting again on arrival.

Sorting by material as well as condition is the other half of that. Material separation is what makes the lower fraction saleable into fibre and wiping markets, and it is also what lets a buyer request, for example, a specific fibre content rather than just a garment type. Buyers comparing several second hand clothes suppliers should ask each how many distinct lines they actually run, because the answer predicts how closely they can match a specification.

Where the material comes from

Inyotex buys its collected textiles in bulk from suppliers rather than running its own collection rounds. That is the standard Dutch model and it has a clear implication worth raising directly: the plant's output quality depends on which collectors it buys from. A certified process controls how consistently material is graded, but it cannot make a weak intake strong.

Anyone weighing this against buying raw original should understand how European sorting plants divide their flows, since a certified sorter and an unsorted bag are opposite ends of the same trade: one sells predictability, the other sells the chance to find what the sorter would have taken.

Location and logistics

Eemhavenweg sits in the Rotterdam port area, which is about as good as European logistics gets. Sea freight leaves from the doorstep, and road delivery into Germany, Belgium and northern France is a single day. For buyers in Poland, the Czech Republic or the Balkans, a Rotterdam supplier is usually competitive on landed cost against a British one even when the per-kilo price looks similar, because the freight leg is shorter and simpler.

Contact runs through +31 (0)10 2265 967, with Y. Ozturk named as contact person. Buyers building a programme of wholesale second hand should arrive with a specification rather than a general enquiry, since a supplier running a hundred lines can only help you if you know which one you want.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Inyotex process?

Approximately 20 tonnes of collected textiles per day and 400 tonnes of production per month.

What is Inyotex certified for?

KIWA certification for an Assessment Based Optimized Textile Sorting Process, meaning the sorting method itself is documented and externally audited. The company is also a member of VHT.

How many product lines does the company offer?

More than 100 different products, subdivided into six categories, sorted in several steps by condition and by material.

Does Inyotex collect its own textiles?

No. Collected textiles are purchased in bulk from suppliers and sorted at the Rotterdam facility.

Where is the company located?

At Eemhavenweg 18, 3089 KG Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, within the port area.