ReHubs appoints Béatrice Moureaux as chief executive officer

Belgium-based textile recycling alliance ReHubs has named Béatrice Moureaux as chief executive officer. Moureaux, who has served as board advisor to the Brussels-based organisation since December 2025, brings more than 25 years of experience across technical textiles, advanced fibres, nonwovens and circular innovation to the leadership role.

She succeeds interim CEO Robert van de Kerkhof. Van de Kerkhof will transition to chairman of the board, where he will work alongside Moureaux to guide the alliance's ongoing initiatives.

The appointment arrives during a complex period for European textile circularity. Despite technological developments, scaling textile-to-textile recycling faces structural challenges. Recyclers require stable demand visibility to invest in processing capacity, while fashion brands seek reliable and cost-competitive supplies of recycled fibres before committing to higher purchasing volumes.

To address this challenge, ReHubs is focusing its strategy on overcoming the market deadlock. The membership-based alliance unites stakeholders across the value chain—including collection, sorting, pre-treatment, recycling, yarn spinning, fabric manufacturing, and retail brands—to improve investment conditions and establish a viable recycling industry in Europe.

ReHubs co-chair Kasper Damsø, from Denmark-based sorting company NewRetex, highlighted the necessity of integrated progress across the sector. “We have technologies today that can improve how textiles are sorted and recycled, but technology alone will not create a circular system,” Damsø stated. “All steps along the value chain need to develop together.”

Co-chair Véronique Allaire Spitzer, representing France-based producer responsibility organisation Refashion, noted that extended producer responsibility schemes serve as a key mechanism to advance circularity across the region.

The alliance, which aims to recycle 2.7 million tonnes of textile waste annually in Europe by 2035, recently collaborated with Boston Consulting Group to publish a report detailing the economics of textile-to-textile recycling and necessary investment frameworks. ReHubs plans to build on these findings to identify targeted interventions that foster market stability for recycled materials.