RB Fibres

What RB Fibres does

RB Fibres S.L. is a privately held, family-owned textile recycling company founded in 1983 and headquartered in Banyeres de Mariola, Alicante, Spain. The company operates an integrated mechanical recycling cycle—covering material reception, pulling, mixing, processing, pressing, classifying, and expedition—to convert post-industrial and post-consumer textile waste into pulled fibers that are reintroduced into manufacturing supply chains. Its product portfolio is organized into three core lines: pulled fibers for open-end spinning (100% cotton and cotton/synthetic blends in bleached, crude, and colored grades), pulled fibers for geotextile, needle-punching, insulation, and mattress applications (high tenacity polyester, textured polyester, polyamide, acrylic, jute), and pulled fibers for the automotive sector (cotton, synthetic cotton, acrylic, polyester). Material composition is approximately 65% cotton and synthetic cotton, 25% acoustics/polyesters/polyamides/jutes, and 10% technical fibers (aramides, panox, glass).

The company generates revenue through direct B2B sales of recycled textile fibers to industrial manufacturers in spinning, geotextile/non-woven, automotive, and construction/technical sectors, serving both Spanish and international markets under a quote-based pricing model. It is differentiated by GRS Global Recycled Standard certification (Registration No. 858008) and ISO 9001:2015 compliance, which provide traceability-certified recycled content claims and quality management assurance to downstream customers. In 2019, the company received an €81,064 grant from the Agencia Valenciana de la Innovación (AVI) to develop four advanced functionalized recycled textile products (self-cleaning, bactericidal, fire-retardant) targeting the home textile sector. The company operates with a lean team of approximately five employees under the ownership and general management of Rafael Barceló Beneyto.

Name

RB Fibres

Legal name

RB Fibres S.L.

Website

https://rbfibres.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

RB Fibres is a family-owned Spanish textile recycler founded in 1983 that converts textile waste into pulled fibers for spinning, geotextile, automotive, and technical industrial buyers under GRS and ISO 9001 certifications.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recycled Textile Fibers

NAICS

Textile Mills (313), Fiber, Yarn, and Thread Mills (313110)

SIC

Textile Mill Products (2200)

akta.pro primary industry

Regenerated & Recycled Fiber Production (rPET/rNylon/Regenerated Cellulose) (IMAOAMAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Textile & Apparel Recycling and Sorting (Non-E-waste) (BPALADAL), Recycled Textile Compounding & Nonwoven Reprocessing (Insulation/Felts/Geotextiles) (IMAOAMAH)

Keywords

• Textile fiber recycling
• Recycled staple fibers
• Garnetting services
• Non-woven fiber supply
• Geotextile fiber production

Headquarters

HQ city

Banyeres de Mariola

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Recycled Textile Fibers: Sale of pulled/processed recycled textile fibers including cotton, synthetic cotton, polyesters, polyamides, jutes, and technical fibers (aramides, panox, glass) to industrial manufacturers. The company buys textile waste materials, processes them back into raw fiber, and sells them for re-entry into industrial production cycles.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

RB Fibres buys textile waste materials and processes them back into raw material through an integral cycle of pulling, mixing, processing, pressing, classifying and expedition. It manufactures pulled (garnetted) and staple recycled textile fibres from cotton, synthetic cotton, polyesters, polyamides, jutes and technical fibres (aramides, panox, glass), sold directly to industrial manufacturers for open-end spinning, geotextiles, needle punching/insulation/mattress and automotive applications.

Product overview

RB Fibres is a textile recycling company that manufactures pulled fibres (garnetting) and staple fibres from vegetable, synthetic, mineral, and technical sources. The company operates an integral cycle for processing textile materials, buying materials and processing them back into raw material for industrial reuse. The product portfolio consists of three main categories: pulled fibres for open-end spinning (cotton and cotton/synthetic blends in bleached, crude and coloured), pulled fibres for geotextiles/needle punching/insulation/mattress (high tenacity polyester, textured polyester, polyamide, acrylic, jute), and pulled fibres for automotive (cotton, synthetic cotton, acrylic, polyester in light/multicoloured). The company material composition breaks down as: Cotton + synthetic cotton 65%, Acoustics/polyesters/polyamides/jutes 25%, Technical fibres (aramides, panox, glass, etc.) 10%.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Pulled fibres for open-end spinning manufactures

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduction in solid waste volume through textile recycling
• +2 more outcomes

Segments4 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

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Worn Again Technologies: UK-based polymer and cellulose recycler of post-consumer textiles into virgin-equivalent polyester and cellulosic feedstocks. Comparable as a next-generation textile recycler serving fiber producers in a similar B2B sustainability-certification channel.
• Renewcell (filament fiber technology): Sweden-based producer of Circulose recycled dissolving pulp used to make virgin-quality viscose/lyocell fibers. Comparable at the regenerated-fiber input stage with similar GRS-style sustainability positioning serving spinning mills.
• Re&Up (Otto Group/Bonprix): Brand-owned recycled cotton fiber producer using chemical-mechanical recycling for the fashion supply chain. Comparable focus on regenerated/recycled fibers with GRS-style traceability into apparel, though vertically tied to the Otto Group.
• Circ (Circular Systems): US-based recycler of mixed textile waste into regenerated cotton and cellulose-blend fibers for apparel brands. Overlaps with RB Fibres on the textile-to-fiber recycling model and recycled-content certifications.

Broad incumbents

• Lenzing AG: Austrian manufacturer of regenerated cellulose and specialty fibers with growing recycled-content product lines. Comparable as a regenerated/sustainable fiber producer selling into apparel and nonwoven end-markets, though at much larger scale and with chemical process depth.

Regional players

• Recycled Textil Vertisol/Recyc'Textil: France-based recycler of textile waste into new cotton and blended fibers for spinning and nonwoven applications. Comparable recycling-to-fiber process and customer overlap, with primary geographic concentration outside of Iberia.
• Hilaturas Mar S.L. Spanish yarn spinner named as the data processor on RB Fibres' own website, indicative of a commercial linkage. Comparable as a Spanish textile intermediary sourcing recycled and virgin fibers for downstream yarn production.

Direct peers

• Synergies Renovables (formerly Synergies TLC): French multi-fiber recycling platform processing post-industrial and post-consumer textile waste back into yarns and nonwovens. Same end-market (spinning mills, geotextile, automotive) and same recycled-fiber B2B model as RB Fibres.
• Texaid Recycle Systems GmbH: Germany-headquartered textile sorting and fiber recycling operator running large-scale collection and processing across Europe. Directly comparable as a textile-to-fiber recycler serving industrial buyers of recycled fiber in the same B2B channel as RB Fibres.

Others

• Andritz (Textile Recycling): Austrian industrial machinery group supplying fiber preparation, opening, and recycling lines to textile recyclers including garnetting systems. Comparable as an ecosystem enabler to RB Fibres' core garnetting/spinning-preparation operation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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