16/03/2020 13:26

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...

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04/12/2019 09:06

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...

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30/10/2019 09:29

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...

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23/10/2019 11:17

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...

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14/10/2019 10:41

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...

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27/09/2019 09:08

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...

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11/09/2019 10:10

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...

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28/08/2019 11:35

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...

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24/07/2019 10:40

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...

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15/07/2019 10:12

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...

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05/07/2019 11:50

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...

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06/06/2019 08:50

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...

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15/02/2019 09:22

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...

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14/12/2018 10:37

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...

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10/12/2018 10:35

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...

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26/11/2018 09:34

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...

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28/06/2018 09:42

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...

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14/06/2018 11:42

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...

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22/05/2018 13:20

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...

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18/04/2018 09:23

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...

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23/02/2018 09:30

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...

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24/01/2018 09:19

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...

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11/01/2018 09:23

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...

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02/01/2018 13:55

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...

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20/12/2017 11:04

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...

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20/12/2017 08:39

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...

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13/12/2017 09:40

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...

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06/12/2017 09:41

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 ...

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04/12/2017 09:25

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...

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22/11/2017 09:46

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...

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22/11/2017 09:37

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...

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21/11/2017 10:10

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...

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21/11/2017 09:46

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...

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20/11/2017 13:11

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...

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20/11/2017 09:38

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...

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18/10/2017 09:30

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’...

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13/09/2017 09:09

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 ...

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17/05/2017 15:00

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 ...

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12/04/2017 12:21

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...

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