The Brussels-based alliance brings on a veteran of technical textiles and circular innovation to scale Europe's textile-to-textile recycling capacity.
Belgium-based textile recycling alliance ReHubs has appointed Béatrice Moureaux as its chief executive officer. Moureaux, who has advised the Brussels-based organisation's board since December 2025, brings over 25 years of experience in technical textiles, advanced fibres, nonwovens and circular innovation to the position.
She replaces interim CEO Robert van de Kerkhof, who will move into the role of chairman of the board. Van de Kerkhof will collaborate with Moureaux to steer the alliance's continuing programmes.
The leadership change comes at a difficult moment for European textile circularity. Although recycling technologies have advanced, expanding textile-to-textile recycling confronts structural obstacles. Recyclers need dependable demand visibility before investing in processing capacity, while fashion brands want reliable, competitively priced recycled fibre supplies before increasing purchase commitments.
Addressing the market deadlock
To tackle this impasse, ReHubs is concentrating its strategy on breaking through the market standstill. The membership organisation brings together participants throughout the value chain—from collection, sorting and pre-treatment through recycling, yarn spinning, fabric manufacturing and retail brands—to enhance investment conditions and build a sustainable European recycling sector.
Kasper Damsø, ReHubs co-chair and representative of Danish sorting company NewRetex, stressed that coordinated advancement across the industry is essential. "We have technologies today that can improve how textiles are sorted and recycled, but technology alone will not create a circular system," Damsø said. "All steps along the value chain need to develop together."
Co-chair Véronique Allaire Spitzer, from French producer responsibility organisation Refashion, pointed to extended producer responsibility schemes as a critical tool for advancing circularity throughout the region.
The alliance, which targets recycling 2.7 million tonnes of textile waste annually in Europe by 2035, recently partnered with Boston Consulting Group on a report examining the economics of textile-to-textile recycling and required investment frameworks. ReHubs intends to use these insights to pinpoint specific measures that promote market stability for recycled materials.