Fashion for Good has selected twelve new start-ups for its Global Platform. The selected Innovators will participate in a nine-month innovation programme with bespoke support to validate their technologies in preparation for implementation across the fashion value chain.
The selected innovators represent technologies across raw materials, processing, traceability and transparency, circular business models and end-of-use. The 2023 Innovation Programme provides bespoke support based on the development stage and ambitions of each innovator, matching innovators with relevant industry partners to drive validation, implementation, and investing activities.
Katrin Ley, MD, Fashion for Good, “We are excited to welcome 12 new innovators to the 2023 Fashion for Good Innovation Programme. We are inspired by the significant impact opportunities their technologies enable. With an emphasis on driving implementation, we provide them with the best support to expedite their exposure and growth into the market.”
The selected innovators joining the Fashion for Good 2023 Innovation Programme cover various areas and have interesting offerings.
SATMA CE, India is a web-based software that uses blockchain optionally to offer traceability across the waste-to-worth supply chain, including collection, segregation, recycling and processing.
USA-based Virent uses its patented BioForming® technology to create the fuels and chemicals the world needs from a wide range of naturally occurring, renewable resources.
ZymoChem, USA offers bio-based materials powered by proprietary carbon conserving (C2) microbes that convert renewable feedstocks into high-value materials while radically minimising CO2 loss during the production phase.
POLYBION (SPAIN) Polybion is growing premium, next-generation materials designed with nature and manufactured with biology.
SALTYCO, UK connects the regeneration of damaged wetlands to the production of healthier materials for the fashion industry.
Lamoral Coating, The Netherlands, commercialises a high-performance, bio-based, fluor-free coating to replace today’s PFAS coatings and improve current C-0 offerings.
USA-based CleanKore’s patented technology modifies the denim dye range to eliminate Potassium Permanganate spray, lower the carbon footprint and improve sustainability throughout the supply chain without increasing cost.
Responsible, from Northern Ireland, is a global circularity platform powered by advanced proprietary technology.
Protein Evolution USA’s goal is to unlock the potential of waste to be a valuable resource, in a bid to help the materials industry transition to a lower-carbon, more circular economy.
Quingdao Amino Material Technology (RE: LASTANE), CHINA focuses on the separation and recycling of polyester and polyester blended fabrics.
Switzerland-based Depoly’s advanced recycling technology converts unsorted, dirty end-of-life plastics and fibres into virgin-grade raw materials.
Ioncell, Finland develops patented Ioncell® technology, which transforms cellulosic bio-materials into new, high-performance textile fibres in a sustainable way.
