In 2012 Jan Kenis and his wife Conny Versmissen founded Cojarec. Their years of experience in the recycling industry and their passion for horses gave them the idea to create a new product: Cofibres® for horse racing tracks. They mainly use textile production waste and a number of other raw materials for the production of Cofibres®. These Cofibres® are used for the construction of horse racing tracks, equestrian surfaces and horse arenas.
Arenas that use Cofibres®, offer many advantages compared to other synthetic fibers, including increased resiliency and improved shock absorption. This is also the reason that Cojarec has become one of the leading suppliers of horse track fibers in recent years.
In 2022 Philippe Lenssen and Michiel Kenis took over the company, continuing the work of the previous owners, and furthering the development of their second business line, the recycling of hard plastics. This second line is growing quickly thanks to the large technical expertise of the Cojarec team but also due to a general tendency of increased raw material optimisation by companies and a larger general societal awareness for environmental issues.
Along with the administrative team and the production team, now 10 people and counting, the Cojarec team works closely with local partners and foreign distributors to deliver their products worldwide. Cojarec has gradually grown from a small family business into a major player in the horse soil market and plastics recycling business.
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