Global sustainable fashion innovation platform Fashion for Good welcomes eight innovators into its 2022 Global Innovation Programme, chosen from a group of innovators scouted across the globe, who pitched their innovative solutions to Fashion for Good partners. The selected innovators participate in the nine-month program, which provides a bespoke approach to validate their technologies in preparation for implementation across the fashion value chain.
The 2022 Innovation Programme provides bespoke support based on each innovator’s development stage and ambitions, matching innovators with relevant industry partners to drive piloting, implementation, and investing activities.
Technologies across raw materials, processing, and end-of-use innovations – three pivotal areas for significant impact and carbon reduction opportunities – are among the latest batch of innovators invited to work with Fashion for Good.
The selected innovators joining the Fashion for Good 2022 Global Innovation Programme are:
• DyeRecycle (UK)
DyeRecycle’s proprietary technology combines the need to recycle both dye and fabrics, developing innovative circular solutions for dyeing using textile waste. The circular process uses a unique liquid that selectively extracts dyes from colored waste fabrics.
• Ever Dye (France)
Ever Dye is on a mission to reshape the fashion industry with efficient dyeing processes and sustainable colors. They’ve developed two chemical solutions that boost dye house production capacities and allow them to dye faster with less energy and without using any petrochemicals, as their dyestuff is made of vegetal waste and minerals.
• IDELAM (France)
IDELAM develops processes using supercritical CO2 for complex, multi-material products and waste, such as jackets and footwear, to enable recycling or reusing these materials.
• Kintra Fibers (USA)
Kintra Fibers has developed a new, plant-based polyester replacement that matches the performance and price of traditional synthetics. With renewable inputs and compostable chemistry, Kintra Fibers has designed its material to reduce manufacturing emissions, eliminate microfibre pollution, and enable textile circularity through chemical recycling and industrial compost.
• Modern Synthesis (UK)
Modern Synthesis is a London-based biotech company crafting the next generation of materials with biology. Their proprietary microbial textile platform employs microbes to grow an entirely new form of textile made of nanocellulose, a powerful and fine form of cellulose, which is the natural building block of materials like cotton, linen, and wood.
• Premirr Plastics (USA)
Premirr Plastics is an innovative technology company addressing the world’s plastics crisis. They have created a continuous flow-through (CFT) system that is fast, efficient, and provides a simple, circular.
Eco-friendly method to chemically recycle PET, providing PET products containing recycled content that possess the same physical and chemical properties as virgin PET.
• Refiberd (USA)
Refiberd is developing a novel textile recycling system that uses AI and a patent-pending chemical recycling process to convert used, discarded textiles into new, reusable threads.
• Rubi (USA)
Rubi makes carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry with synthetic biology. Founded in 2020, Rubi makes the same high-quality, natural textiles used in the industry today entirely from carbon emissions, bypassing current agriculture and manufacturing to create a carbon-negative product, water- and land-neutral, and naturally natural product biodegradable.
