Fashion for Good has announced 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.
“We are excited to welcome these eight new innovators to the 2022 Fashion for Good Innovation Programme. We are inspired by the significant impact and carbon reduction opportunities their technologies enable. With an emphasis on driving impact and implementation, we strive to provide them with the best support to expedite their exposure and growth into the market,” said Katrin Ley, MD, Fashion for Good.
The 2022 Innovation Programme provides bespoke support based on the development stage and ambitions of each innovator, matching innovators with relevant industry partners to drive piloting, implementation and investing activities.
The selected innovators joining the Fashion for Good 2022 Global Innovation Programme are: DyeRecycle, Ever Dye, Idelam, Kintra Fibers, Modern Synthesis, Premirr Plastics, Refiberd and Rubi.
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 coloured waste fabrics.
Ever Dye (France): Ever Dye is on a mission to reshape the fashion industry with efficient dyeing processes and sustainable colours. 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 reuse of these materials.
Kintra Fibers (USA): Kintra Fibers has developed a new, plant-based polyester replacement that matches the performance and price of traditional synthetics.
Modern Synthesis (UK): Modern Synthesis is a London-based biotech company crafting the next generation of materials, with biology.
Premirr Plastics (USA): Premirr Plastics is an innovative technology company that is addressing the world’s plastics crisis.
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 thread.
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 product that is carbon-negative, water- and land- neutral and naturally biodegradable.
