Building on three years of joint development, Spanish knitwear specialist Pyratex has already developed fabrics combining Circ’s recycled polyester with lyocell fibres and is now undertaking selected bulk production runs for clients of products soon to be launched on the market.

With Circ’s upcoming facility in France, Pyratex is preparing to scale volumes and make these next-gen fibres a concrete replacement for widely used polyester and lyocell in the industry.

“Circ’s technology gives us what the industry desperately needs – true recycled fibres for fashion’s most widely used textiles,” says Pyratex CEO Regina Polanco. “Through this partnership, we can integrate these solutions directly into our textile formulas, delivering the quality, performance and design flexibility that brands need while reducing impact at scale.”

“Pyratex has built a reputation for turning bold ideas into real, scalable fabric solutions,” adds Circ CEO Peter Majeranowski. “Its early partnership and continued investment in Circ fibres reflects a deeper shift as long-term commitments are taking shape to support circularity at industrial scale. We’re working together to build a supply chain that can support circularity where it matters most – at scale.”

Circ and Pyratex will showcase their joint work during a Textile Exchange field trip in Portugal on October 17th, where brands will experience scaled circular fibre production and explore how to integrate next-gen materials into future collections.

Headquartered in Danville, Virginia, Circ is a polycotton blend chemical recycler and the company behind the world’s first commercial-scale facility for textile-to-textile polycotton recycling, currently under development in Saint-Avold, France.

Madrid-headquartered Pyratex serves both as a strategic sustainability partner and an R&D hub working to enable brands such as the LVMH Group, Ganni and Adolfo Domínguez to reduce impact while integrating the most advanced next-gen fibres.

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