What Boer Group does

Boer Group is a sixth-generation, family-owned Dutch textile recycling holding company headquartered in Dordrecht, Netherlands, operating a vertically integrated platform spanning the post-consumer textile value chain from collection through sorting to mechanical recycling. The group operates 13+ wholly-owned and partner companies across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France, including sorting firms (Gebotex, Evadam, Marbo, Curitas, Euro Used Clothing, Tardis Vintage, Textrade, Alta-West), collection infrastructure (FWS, Fashion to Fiber, Umucu), mechanical recycling (Frankenhuis, acquired 2018), upcycling (MOOT, stake acquired 2022), and an innovation platform (Boer Group Recycling Solutions, established 2015). Combined daily processing capacity is approximately 400,000 kg of post-consumer textiles, generating an estimated 1,372,000 kg of CO2 reduction per day. Under CEO Jorik Boer (5th generation, in role since 2015) and aspiring-CEO Bruno Boer (6th generation), the group employs approximately 2,000 people directly and indirectly worldwide.

The company generates revenue through three primary streams: post-consumer textile sorting and trading (transaction fees on graded textiles sold to reuse markets or downstream recyclers), mechanical recycling of textile waste into closed-loop feedstock via Frankenhuis, and tailored collection services for manufacturers meeting Extended Producer Responsibility obligations via Fashion to Fiber. Its core technology stack focuses on automated sorting accuracy and mechanical recycling at scale; Frankenhuis operates as the dedicated mechanical recycler producing high-value recycled materials for fiber-to-fiber loops. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, with services delivered via subsidiary companies to municipalities (waste-handling partnerships), fashion brands (Project FAE collaboration with adidas, BESTSELLER, INDITEX for developing regional sorting hubs), and downstream reuse/recycling buyers. Pricing is not publicly disclosed; the business model is B2B and quote-based, anchored on volumes processed rather than per-seat or subscription pricing.

The company positions itself around four UN Sustainable Development Goals (8, 9, 11, and 12) and participates in industry initiatives such as Project FAE to develop European post-consumer textile value chains. Boer Group is privately held under Boer & Smaal Holding with no disclosed external institutional investors or parent company, enabling long-term capital allocation and family-controlled strategic continuity.

Name

Boer Group

Legal name

Boer Group

Website

https://boergroup.eu

Company type

Private

Founded year

1897

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Boer Group is a sixth-generation Dutch family-owned textile recycling holding company operating 13+ subsidiaries across the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, and France, processing 400,000 kg of post-consumer textiles daily for municipalities and fashion brands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Dordrecht

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Post-Consumer Textile Sorting: Collection, sorting and trading of post-consumer textiles for reuse and recycling. Boer Group operates sorting companies (Gebotex, Evadam, Marbo, Euro Used Clothing, Alta-West, TexTrade, Tardis Vintage, Gebetex Tri) that sort and grade textiles for reuse markets or prepare them for recycling.
2. Textile Recycling Processing: Frankenhuis processes textile waste into mechanically recycled post-consumer textiles for closed-loop recycling, generating revenue from selling recycled materials.
3. Collection Services: Fashion to Fiber offers flexible, tailor-made solutions for collection of old clothes, returns and unsold goods, helping manufacturers meet their producer responsibilities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Boer Group operates an integrated post-consumer textile circularity platform providing collection, automated sorting, and mechanical recycling of used textiles. Through its subsidiary network, it processes approximately 400,000 kg of textile waste per day for reuse markets and as feedstock for fiber-to-fiber recycling, serving municipalities, fashion brands, and recycling technology partners across Northwestern Europe.

Product overview

Boer Group is a family-owned holding company operating a multi-subsidiary platform for textile circularity, managing the full post-consumer textile value chain from collection through sorting to recycling. The portfolio includes the core innovation platform Boer Group Recycling Solutions (BGRS), collection services (Fashion to Fiber, umucu), mechanical recycling (Frankenhuis), and upcycling (MOOT). Operating companies span textile sorting (Gebotex, Evadam, Marbo, Curitas, Euro Used Clothing, Tardis Vintage, Textrade, Alta-West), collection (FWS, Gebetex), and international partnerships (Striebel, RAS Textile). The group processes 400,000 kg of textiles daily, generating 1,372,000 kg CO2 reduction per day and employing 2,000 people globally.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Boer Group Recycling Solutions (BGRS): Platform for innovative developments in textile recycling by supporting promising research projects and collaborating with all relevant stakeholders
• Fashion to Fiber
• Frankenhuis
• MOOT (Made Out Of Trash)
• umucu

Products and services

• Boer Group Recycling Solutions (BGRS)
• Fashion to Fiber

Quantifiable outcome

• 400,000 kg/day of textile waste diverted from landfills
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

20 partnerships are on record, tiered major, core and minor.

• adidasmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 April 2026adidas is a partner in Project FAE, an initiative to address the gap between post-consumer textile supply and recycling demand in Europe. The project establishes regional sorting and pre-processing hubs alongside advanced feedstock preparation technologies.
• BESTSELLERmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 April 2026BESTSELLER participates in Project FAE alongside adidas, INDITEX, sorting operators and recycling companies to develop scalable, economically viable post-consumer textile value chains in Europe.
• INDITEXmajorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 April 2026INDITEX (Zara parent company) partners in Project FAE to develop European circular textile economy solutions through regional sorting hubs and advanced recycling technologies.
• Alta-WestcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman sorting company acquired by Boer Group as part of the 2001 acquisition of FWS. Part of the group's German market expansion strategy.
• Boer Group Recycling SolutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEstablished in 2015 as a platform for innovative developments in textile recycling by supporting promising research projects and collaborating with all relevant stakeholders.
• CuritascoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCuritas Belgium established in 1993 and Curitas Netherlands in 1999. Focus on expansion in textile collection following the fall of the Berlin Wall, providing sorting and collection services.
• EvadamcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerBelgian sorting company located in Roeselare, acquired by Boer Group in 1984. One of the earliest international acquisitions in the group's history.
• Fashion to FibercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorFashion to Fiber offers flexible, tailor-made solutions for the collection of old clothes, returns and unsold goods, helping brands meet their manufacturer responsibilities.
• FrankenhuiscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcquired in 2018, Frankenhuis is a mechanical recycler that turns textile waste into high value for closed-loop recycling, completing the circular economy chain within Boer Group.
• FWScoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOne of the largest German collection companies acquired in 2001, providing security for the supply of unsorted textiles to Boer Group's sorting companies.
• GebotexcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGebotex (Gerrit Boer Textiel) was started in 1978 as the first company focused on textile sorting within the family business, headquartered in Dordrecht.
• MarbocoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMarbo Used Clothing was established in 1986 by Marinus Boer (contraction of Marinus Boer) as a sorting company in Dordrecht and later became part of the Group.
• Tardis VintageminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerEstablished in 2013 as a sorting company specialized in sorting retro clothing and accessories sold to vintage shops and wholesalers.
• TexTradecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman sorting company acquired in 2001 as part of the FWS acquisition, supporting the group's German market operations.
• MOOT (Made Out Of Trash)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerStake in Berlin-based startup acquired in 2022 to close the important gap of upcycling within Boer Group, turning textile waste into new fair mainstream clothing.
• Gebetex (France)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFrench collection company in which Boer Group holds a stake, operated by Bourgouis family business.
• StriebelminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerGerman family company in which Boer Group holds a participation to increase sorting and collection in Germany.
• Euro Used ClothingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSorting company established by Marinus Boer as part of the group's expansion in the late 1990s.
• RAS TextileminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner company within Boer Group network, logo displayed on the group's tradition page.
• umucuminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPlatform focused on the collection of discarded textiles in global reuse countries, processing them into valuable raw materials for textile recycling.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Texaid: Swiss-based textile collection and sorting operator with a pan-European footprint comparable to Boer Group's subsidiary network. Both companies operate the same core business model — collecting post-consumer textiles from municipalities and retailers, then sorting for reuse or recycling — making them the most direct head-to-head competitor.
• Roberts European: UK-based post-consumer textile collector and sorter with decades of operating history. Operates a similar model of municipal textile collection followed by manual sorting for reuse and recycling channels across Europe.
• Synergies Développement Durable: French-origin European textile sorting and recycling group with operations across France, Poland, and other markets. Directly comparable to Boer Group in business model (collection, sorting, downstream reuse/recycling) and in serving fashion brands under EPR schemes.
• Soex (formerly I:CO): Germany-headquartered textile collection and sorting company originally part of the I:CO platform (now integrated with Soex and historically linked to Zalando). Operates an almost identical take-back, collection, and sortation model serving brands and municipalities across Europe.

Broad incumbents

• Veolia: Global waste-management and environmental services incumbent that handles textile waste streams as part of its broader municipal and industrial portfolio. Comparable as a competitor for municipal textile collection contracts but not specialized in textile recycling.
• Suez: International environmental services group with textile waste collection as one component of its wider recycling and waste-handling activities. Overlaps with Boer Group on municipal textile collection tenders in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
• Lenzing Group: Austrian manufacturer of cellulosic fibers including recycled-content variants, supplying the textile and apparel industry. Comparable as a downstream buyer of recycled textile feedstock and as a broader fiber-industry incumbent with circularity ambitions overlapping Boer Group's customer base.

Emerging players

• Infinited Fiber Company: Finnish fiber-regeneration technology company turning textile waste into virgin-quality regenerated fibers. A potential upstream customer for Boer Group's sorted feedstock but also a long-term competitive threat to Frankenhuis's mechanical recycling economics.
• Circ: US-based chemical recycling company commercializing a process to recover cotton and polyester from blended textile waste. Comparable to Boer Group's recycling ambitions but focused on a different (chemical rather than mechanical) technological pathway.
• Worn Again Technologies: UK-based chemical recycling startup developing processes to separate and regenerate polyester and cotton from blended textiles. Could be both a partner (sourcing sorted feedstock from Boer Group) and a competitor as fiber-to-fiber recycling scales.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries17 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments2 records

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