Scaling Programme

Ambercycle focuses on turning post-consumer textile waste into new fibres. Ambercycle fibres are used as a direct replacement for traditional polyester. This technology enables the designers and manufacturers of clothing to truly embrace circular production models without sacrificing quality or cost.

Tyton BioSciences recycles discarded clothing to produce the basis of petroleum- and plant-based fabrics. Tyton’s virgin-equivalent, market-grade dissolving pulp and petroleum monomers can be sold at the same cost as virgin materials to manufacturers who make fibres. Whether cotton, poly-cotton, polyester, nylon or other fibres, Tyton aims to cost-effectively recycle these materials using water as a solvent. This makes their tech a clean and economical alternative in the recycling industry.

Bext360 is a traceability Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform focusing on critical supply chains such as coffee, cocoa, seafood, palm oil, minerals (Coltan, Cobalt), timber and natural fibres (cotton). We provide a traceable fingerprint to track products from producer to consumer. bext360’s vision is to improve the global supply chain for agricultural products, using a novel combination of blockchain technology and machine vision that allows for traceability and transparency where it is desperately needed.

Spinnova has developed a disruptive cellulose fibre innovation; turning wood pulp directly into yarn, and involves no dissolving or other complex chemical processes. Their manufacturing process method uses up to 99% less water compared to cotton. This fibre innovation has a uniquely small footprint and presents exciting opportunities to create a circular fibre production system. Based in Finland, Spinnova is poised to reach industrial scale by year-end through their new pilot factory. Future business models include partnering with brands by licensing the technology or setting up joint ventures for fibre production.

The Renewal Workshop takes damaged inventory and returns and processes them into Renewed Apparel, upcycling materials, or feedstock for recycling. Data is collected and shared with partners to help them improve design, production and impact. The Renewal Workshop operates a zero waste circular system that recovers the full value out of what has already been created to help brands reduce waste, recover value, and profit in recommerce.

Yerdle Recommerce makes it easy for leading brands such as Patagonia, EILEEN FISHER and REI to buy back and resell their items. Yerdle provides the logistics, online storefront, and technology to make it turn key for brands to take back control of the secondary marketplace, driving customer engagement and increasing profit through a circular approach.

SeaChange Technologies, Inc. has developed a game-changing approach to eliminate effluent from apparel manufacture and processing. The SeaChange process allows manufacturers to maintain their existing production capabilities, while saving money and reducing environmental footprint.

Natural Fiber Welding transforms abundant, biodegradable natural fibres into high performance products using patented processing methods. The platform leverages nature’s existing abundance and diversity of renewable materials with ultimate scalability in mind; using clean chemistries in closed-loop systems with energy efficient automation means that the process remains cost effective, people + earth-friendly whilst also expanding the reach of the original nano-technology – life.

Ecovative focuses on advancing fabrication towards a more sustainable future using their Mycelium Biofabrication Platform. Their technology involves more control over geometry, density, size and composition of mycelium material – resulting in Mycoflex; a high-performance foam with exciting applications in fashion. As Mycoflex is sourced from agricultural waste streams it does not involve the use of any harmful chemistry and is biodegradable.

The Infinited Fiber Company’s purpose is to be the driving force in revolutionising the fashion industry. It has developed a process technology that can turn cotton-rich textile waste, paper and cardboard waste into new, cotton-like fibres for the textile industry. And not just once, but infinitely. Infinited Fiber can be recycled again and again without decreasing the quality of the fibre. The Infinited Fiber Company is working with the world’s leading textile and hygienic product brands. With the opening of a pilot production plant in Espoo, Finland, it provides a solution for the global textile industry in its inevitable shift to sustainable and circular materials.

SoftWear Automation’s SewbotTM worklines combine patented computer vision with light weight robotics to move fabric to and through the needle more efficiently than a human operator. This industry-leading technology allows manufacturers to SEWLOCALTM, geographically shortening the distance between the manufacturer and consumer, while creating higher quality products.

Cosyflex®, Tamicare’s 3D printing technology, uses additive manufacturing techniques to apply layers of raw materials (e.g. cotton) and water based polymers to create finished textile products. This ground-breaking mass production technology allows manufacturers to eliminate the wasteful and chemically hazardous processes of dyeing and cut make & trim, shortening the supply chain with a sustainable and eco-friendly solution.

Worn Again has developed a chemical recycling technology that can separate and recapture polyester (PET) and cellulose from cotton from non-rewearable textiles to produce virgin equivalent, cost competitive polyester and cellulosic raw materials to be reintroduced into the supply chain as part of a continual process. Old clothes and textiles are collected, processed via Worn Again’s process and then made back into new yarn, textiles and clothes. The cycle can repeat again and again, eliminating the need to exploit virgin resources. Worn Again’s process is unique in that it can deal with both pure and blended textiles.

Mango Materials produces biodegradable bio-polyester that can be used as a sustainable alternative to the present polyester utilized in the fashion industry. Microfibres produced from the biopolyester can biodegraded in many environments, including landfills, wastewater treatment plants, and the oceans helping to prevent microfibre pollution and contributing to a closed-loop bio economy for the fashion industry.

Sonovia has developed the most durable, versatile, safe and effective Anti-Bacterial coating technology for Textiles, and the only technology to be able to positively address the very strict demands by the Hospital sector.

Creates dyes and fibres from algae microorganisms. Their textiles release anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals that can nourish and protect our body and skin.