DATABEYOND FASTSORT-TEXTILE Selected for Time Magazine‘s List of The Best Inventions of 2025: Special Mentions

Recently, Time magazine (U.S.) released its The Best Inventions of 2025. In this year’s selection, DATABEYOND was among the AI enterprises that made the list, alongside companies such as Unitree and Deepseek. Leveraging its cutting-edge technology and notable application value in the field of waste textile sorting, DATABEYOND’s FASTSORT-TEXTILE (Blended Textile AI Hyperspectral Sorter) earned "Special Mentions" on the list. It is also the only high-tech enterprise in the "Recycling & Reuse" category of this year’s list to receive this honor, emerging as a prominent innovative force in the intelligent sorting sector.

First launched in 2000, Time magazine’s "Best Inventions" List is one of the world’s most influential innovation awards. It has strict selection criteria, focusing on an invention’s originality, effectiveness, and positive impact on the world. This selection marks that DATABEYOND’s breakthroughs in the field of intelligent sorting technology have been highly recognized by authoritative international media, and also indicates that DATABEYOND has provided a new industrialization path for addressing the global challenge of waste textile recycling.

The core breakthrough of FASTSORT-TEXTILE lies in the deep integration of hyperspectral imaging technology and AI algorithms, enabling accurate identification and sorting of waste textiles based on material composition ratio, color, style, and other attributes. Its working efficiency far surpasses that of traditional sorting methods.

The core capabilities of this equipment are reflected in the following aspects:

Garment Material Sorting: Identifying the proportion of different materials in garments. For example, it can sort out garments with over 90% polyester content, garments with over 80% cotton content, or garments with specific proportions of materials such as nylon, spandex, wool, and linen.

Garment Style Sorting: Sorting garments by style. For example, it can sort out items that meet the criteria of "white + crew neck + 100% pure cotton + T-shirts".

Material and Color Sorting: Sorting shredded garment scrap and garment trimmings by material and color.

Impurity Removal from Shredded Materials: Removing impurities such as sequins, buttons, zippers, cuffs, embroidery, PU coatings, and pearls.

DATABEYOND not only provides core technical support for waste textile sorting but also offers standardized and modular integrated waste textile sorting line design solutions and implementation services to the global waste textile recycling sector, empowering the industry to enter a new stage of high-quality development.

Since its establishment in 2018, DATABEYOND has delivered thousands of intelligent sorting equipment units to more than 40 countries and regions worldwide, covering multiple fields including whole plastic bottle sorting, film sorting (FILM), waste textile sorting (TEXTILE), municipal solid waste sorting (MSW), construction and demolition waste sorting (CDW), PET flake purification, and flake quality inspection.

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