US-based textile-to-textile recycling pioneer Circ® has announced the launch of Fiber Club in collaboration with the non-profit organisation Canopy for forest conservation and the sustainable innovation platform Fashion for Good. Fiber Club is a collaborative effort that provides a systematic four-phase procedure that includes trial collections, sampling, and important long-term off-take obligations to help brands evaluate and embrace recycled materials.
With intentions to add additional Circ materials in the future, Fiber Club’s first fibre is the company’s mainstay lyocell fibre. It can be expensive and complicated to introduce a new fibre into an existing supply chain, and it frequently demands minimum volumes and expenditure. By giving brands a platform to test and adopt concurrently, streamlining the suppliers involved, and lowering minimum order quantities by merging brand volumes, Fiber Club seeks to address these issues and cut costs.
Supply chain partners Birla Cellulose, Foshan Chicley, and Arvind, as well as brand partners Bestseller, Eileen Fisher, Everlane, and Zalando, are among the first companies to join Fiber Club. Of the three supply chain partners working on pilot projects for these brands, Arvind and Foshan Chicley will create textile fabrications, while Birla Cellulose will turn Circ’s pulp from polycotton textile waste into lyocell staple fibre. To get material off the ground, cooperation on pilot quantities with various value chain partners is crucial. After that, the brands will choose a clothing manufacturer to use the novel fabric in their products.
