Textiles, apparel, footwear and leather
ESG Green yarn collection - #hackyourjeans platform
As a Belgian spinning mill, European Spinning Group’s “Green collection” is an upcycled yarn collection made out of recycled post-consumer denim or recycled polyester, blended with fibres such as Tencel®, rPET, virgin raw white and dope dy...
Reda: Recycling of by products
Reda, an Italian wool fabric company produces active “Padding”; a non-woven fabric created using post-industrial textile waste (by-products) coming from production cycle. This fabric is highly resistant and capable of decomposing over tim...
3SIXTY-Turning Recycled Plastic Bottles Into Towels
3SIXTY takes end of life, single use plastic bottles and/or ocean waste and mixes these with cotton to produce towels that look, feel and perform just like regular towels for the hotel, retail and cruise line industry. Our products provide our custom...
Nudie Jeans Co: Jeans out of pre-owned jeans
In 2019, the Swedish denim brand Nudie Jeans Co launched a denim capsule collection called Rebirth. The collection, available since October, consists of over 3,500 pairs of jeans, 199 denim jackets and over 800 T-shirts. Collected post-consumer Nudie...
Touchpoint Oy: Sustainable workwear and closed loop service model
TouchPoint is a Finnish workwear company using eco-materials such as fabrics made from recycled raw materials, cutting waste or regenerated fibres and is utilizing surplus materials. TouchPoint offers full service model from design, managing the enti...
Sedacor: CORK-A-TEX Yarn. Yarn with high incorporation of recycled cork
CORK-A-TEX is a project led by Sedacor (a cork-making company) in partnership with Portuguese textile companies Têxteis Penedo, CITEVE and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. Cork is the bark of the oak cork tree and is a bio-base...
Sympatex: Old workwear into functional recyclable fabrics
Sympatex is part of the French consortium FRIVEP© (Filière pour le Réemploi et Recyclage des Vêtements Professionnels) covering the entire recycling circle. The goal of the consortium is to recycle discarded workwear clothing into renewable funct...
L’Indispensac - Customizable tote bag made in France
Les Tissages De Charlieu is a weaving company that has developed the “Indispensac” products which are customized tote bags, entirely made in France. They are weaved in the French Region Loire and are made with recycled yarns out of post-industria...
ReBlend: Circular fabrics & fashion
ReBlend is a Dutch label for 100% recycled fabrics and fashion made from mainly post-consumer blended textile waste that otherwise would have been incinerated. We make new textiles in 4 steps:no longer wearable textiles are sorted by colour and mat...
Spinnova: Bio-based textile fibre
Spinnova is a fibre technology company, developing textile fibre directly out of biomaterials without harmful chemical processes or dissolving. The raw material of the fibre is pulp that is made of FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified wood or w...
From KLM uniforms to cabin interior carpet
When KLM Royal Dutch Airlines decided to launch a new uniform in 2010, a 90,000-kg pile of old uniforms arose. We launched an upcycling pilot project involving the conversion of old fabric into a new raw material for new products. Up to today, our di...
Infinited Fiber: New Sustainable Fiber Production Technology
Infinited Fiber (IFC) is a Finnish company developing and commercializing a patented Cellulose Carbamate technology. Cellulose Carbamate (CCA) technology enables producing cotton-like, sustainable fibre out of post-consumer textile waste, cardboard w...
DyeCoo's water-free and process-chemical free-dyeing technology for textiles
DyeCoo is the world’s first commercial supplier of water-free and process-chemical free-dyeing technology for textiles. Their CO2-based dyeing process makes textile dyeing clean, sustainable, efficient and profitable. DyeCoo based in Weesp in the N...
Large scale recycling of cellulosic textiles
As re:newcell, we receive pre and post-consumer cellulosic textile waste (mostly cotton clothing) to our recycling plant. The material is shredded, de-buttoned, de-zipped, de-colored and turned into a slurry. The slurry is treated and bleached in a c...
Nuova Fratelli Boretti textile processes from regenerated waste
Nuova Fratelli Boretti s.r.l. has created an engineering process in order to regenerate waste from pre-consumer textile processes based on wool camel and cashmere, in order to obtain Raw Material for textile industries. The company is a well-rooted c...
Pumpa Upcycle - upcycled textiles made of waste
Instead of getting thrown away and burnt, useless textiles are received by Pumpa Design Oy and are upcycled into new products: dog/cat beds, grocery bags, bags and pouches in different sizes. Textile waste comes from waste collection companies / orga...
TENCEL™ Lyocell fibers with REFIBRA™ technology from Lenzing
TENCEL™ fibers with REFIBRA™ technology have been introduced to the market in 2017. TENCEL™ lyocell with REFIBRA™ Technology is the first commercially available cellulosic fibre featuring chemical recycled content, certified with Recycled Con...
ECOTEC’s fully traceable, certified textile recyclates
At ECOTEC the production cycle is completely traceable, certified and made 100% in Italy, which uses production clippings coming from weaving or knitting companies or PET, to create new yarns. These remnants, which are pre-consumer are transformed in...
Social entrepreneurship and circular textiles by Humana Nova Cakovec
We are collecting used clothes and textile waste which we use in production of our fashion line “ReDesign”. Used clothes is mostly collected in north-west Croatia. It is sorted in Humana Nova premises based on the following categories:Clean and...
Jeans to Jeans
In September 2017, HNST (pronounce as “honest”) had a collection campaign where people could drop off their old and unworn denims at more than 80 collecting points in Flanders (Belgium). In two weeks time, more than 6000 old pair of denims were c...
Finlayson's Rag Rugs
Finlayson business model is based on collecting used bed sheets and recycling them into rag rugs. The company began collecting home textiles in its shops, but also brought recycling within reach of customers by using its online store: customers who h...
Schijvens corporate recycled uniforms
Schijvens produces post-consumer corporate garment made of recycled yarns by combining 50% of recycled textile and 50% of recycled PET. Schijvens does so by collecting worn out uniforms and PET bottles later used in the process. To obtain the final f...
Tejidos Royo - Fabrics with values
The main sustainability example of Tejidos Royo is Recycled Denim Process with Hilaturas Ferre. Tejidos Royo has products with sustainable fibers: Lyocell, Hemp, recycled cotton and polyester and works with new fiber generation Refibra based on cotto...
Pure Waste Textiles’ fully recyclable clothes
Pure Waste Textiles manufactures completely recycled yarns, fabrics, clothing and accessories from the leftover material by the textile industry at its production plant in India, which is currently under construction. The company uses cutting waste f...
NEWLIFE™ making the world a better place
NEWLIFE™ is a product created with an ambitious project developed by Sinterama and it is completely made from recycled, post-consumption, plastic bottles using a mechanical process. It is certified as 100% made in Italy, fully traceable and the...
Santanderina's Tencel Recycling Initiative
SANTANDERINA R/TURN offers a new range of textile products with low environmental impact. These products are made of recycled and sustainable materials such as Refibra, recycled polyester, Seaqual, and organic cotton with production processes that e...
VILARRASA's recycled cotton yarn (ecru, bleached and coloured)
Vilarrasa uses pre-consumer textile waste coming from garment production and other spinning waste as the main raw material. That waste is sorted by its composition (cotton, cotton/polyester,…), its colour (ecru, bleached or coloured) and the type o...
Orange Fiber
Orange Fiber is an Italian company that has patented and manufactures sustainable fabrics for fashion from citrus juice by-product. Following a collaboration with Politecnico di Milano University, the company has developed an innovative process that ...
We aRe SpinDye's Sustainable colouring of man-made fibers
In an industry desperately seeking change and sustainable innovation, We aRe SpinDye® (WRSD) offers the apparel and fashion industry an updated way of bringing colors to fabrics – we remove the conventional dirty and inefficient dyeing process...
UPCYCLING THE OCEANS by Ecoalf
Upcycling the Oceans project (UTO) by Ecoalf collects the trash that is destroying the oceans and turns it into top quality yarn to produce fabrics and products, thanks to the support of fishermen. As a result of this extraordinary project, Ecoalf ha...
Cornilleau Rackets from textile Armor lux fibers
The SOFTBAT racket is the concrete result of R & D work carried out for more than three years by a group of French industrialists in the innovative “Eco-Charges” project:Armor-Lux, a textile company that supplied the cotton / polyes...
Decreasing textile sector’s footprint while designing eco-circular textile sol...
TDV Industries focuses on lowering the environmental footprint at every step of the life-cycle: sourcing, processing, distribution, product usage and end-of-life and new life. The process uses bio-based (bio-cotton, linen and hemp having the lowest e...
Reusing Textile Waste in Regeneracija
The core business of Regeneracija lies in recycling of textile waste from surrounding textile industries to produce insulation for construction and automotive industry, protective floor coverings, filtration, and furniture industry. The company colle...
Fighting plastic in the oceans - 100% recycled PET - Polyester yarns DIOLEN®ReC...
There are already functional business strategies to tackle plastic debris in the oceans and products which can minimize the impact of each plastic released in the seas. One of the examples in the textile industry are polyester filament yarns made out...
OCCGuarantee® Project
The initiative tackles both sustainability and social aspects. The social projects launched in Brazil involve 150 family farmers producing Organic Cotton OCCGuarantee® which is then spun in Catalonia and weaved in Portugal. The final garments are co...
Recover Upcycled Yarn System
Recover turns textile waste into new yarns for multiple life-cycles and produces the lowest impact textiles for apparel, accessory and home textile markets. The core added value is the offer of recycled cotton – the key ingredient of all company’...
Niaga®’s circular carpet manufacturing technology
In the EU, 1.6 million tonnes of carpets goes to waste every year. 60% of that ends of up in landfills, 37-39% is incinerated and 1-3% is recycled. The complexity of existing carpets, glued together with latex, has made it both technically difficult ...
Dafecor’s recycling and reuse of industrial textiles
Dafecor is one of the few companies utilising textile waste on an industrial scale in Finland. Dafecor acts as a partner to several parties. It takes the leftover materials from textile production and waste textiles from the public sector, laundries ...
IKEA Polska's end-of-life product strategy
Circular IKEA Poland is the first circular economy program in IKEA Retail Poland, the company operating IKEA stores in the country. It was started in 2016 and hopes to close the loop on many crucial materials and encourage circularity in customers th...