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Playbook & Handbook · February 6, 2026
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Valvan Fibersort AI Textile Sorting for Recycling
Valvan is a Belgian machine builder headquartered in Menen and part of the Valtech Group. It was founded in 1968 as Valvan Metaalconstructie, moved into textile waste and…
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PYRATEX Next-Generation Bio-Based and Recycled Fabrics
PYRATEX is a Madrid-based textile R&D company, operating as Pyrates Smart Fabrics, S.L. and active since 2018, founded and led by CEO Regina Polanco. It develops, produces and…
SideStroem Nano-selective Forward Osmosis (FOns)
Sidestroem Water Technologies is a Singapore membrane company incorporated on 17 March 2021. It develops membranes that selectively recover water and salts from industrial effluents, aiming to cut…
DePoly Light-Activated PET Depolymerisation
DePoly is a Swiss company founded in 2020 as a spin-off of EPFL by Samantha Anderson, Chris Ireland and Bardiya Valizadeh, headquartered in Sion, Valais. It targets PET…
Epoch Biodesign Enzymatic Nylon Biorecycling
Epoch Biodesign is a London-based biotechnology company founded by Jacob Nathan, who started it as an independent project to find plastic-degrading microbes. It targets synthetic textiles and plastics,…
Infinite Loop PET and Polyester Depolymerization
Loop Industries is a clean technology company headquartered in Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada, that has spent about a decade developing a way to make PET plastic and polyester fibre…
imogo Dye-Max Digital Spray Dyeing
imogo AB is a Swedish innovation company based in Limhamn that started in 2018 around a new process for dyeing textile materials. It targets the heavy use of…
Refiberd AI Hyperspectral Textile Material Detection
Refiberd, Inc. is a US company led by a women-founded team of engineers, Sarika Bajaj (CEO, formerly working on fashion-tech at Intel) and Tushita Gupta (CTO, an AI…
cycora Regenerated Polyester
Ambercycle is a Los Angeles-based company founded in 2015 that describes itself as an ecosystem for circular textiles. It addresses the fact that most polyester clothing is made…
Recover Recycled Cotton Fiber (RCotton, RMix, Recover One)
Recover is a Madrid-based materials science company that turns textile waste into recycled cotton fiber. It is a spin-off of Hilaturas Ferre, a spinning business started by the…