Montreal-headquartered Loop Industries is launching Twist –  a branded circular polyester resin made entirely from textile waste.

Loop is currently advancing its discussions with apparel brands for offtake from its planned India JV and will supply Twist as its branded product offering. Originally developed as Loop’s fibre-grade PET resin, the product has been rebranded to reflect its role in helping the textile industry transition from linear to circular systems, shifting away from virgin materials and from bottle-to-textile recycling.

Utilizing Loop’s globally patented depolymerization technology, Twist is produced by breaking down polyester textile waste into its base monomers, DMT and MEG, which are then purified back to their initial purity, before being polymerized into Twist resin.

This process removes all dyes, colorants, contaminants and blends, delivering a resin that is chemically identical to virgin polyester. Textile-to-textile recycling allows apparel companies to mitigate the increasing environmental impact of textile waste. 

Twist achieves the highest purity, colour and dyability consistency and increases production efficiency, making it fully compatible with existing spinning and manufacturing infrastructure.

The production of Twist saves up to 418,600 tons of CO2 emissions annually and reduces greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to 81%2 when compared to fossil fuel-based resin. This has been independently validated by Franklin Associates, a division of ERG which completed an LCA study of Loop’s technology. This is the equivalent of more than 1abillion miles driven by an average petrol-powered passenger vehicle.

Twist is also the first textile-to-textile polyester resin offering complete traceability. Embedded chemical tracers allow customers to track finished products directly back to their original waste textile inputs. This transparency meticulously verifies every step of the recycling and manufacturing process, building crucial trust in the circular economy and setting a new standard for accountability in sustainable textile production. With full traceability from waste input to finished product, Twist empowers brands to confidently meet growing regulatory, and consumer demands for transparency and circularity.

The polyester resin will be expanded from Loop’s Terrebonne facility and produced at the Infinite Loop India facility, a strategically located manufacturing platform designed to serve global textile and apparel brands which will provide Twist at competitive pricing levels. This combination of performance, price, traceability and sustainability positions Twist as a key material for brands seeking to lead on circularity and meet evolving sustainability targets.

“Twist represents a major step forward in closing the loop for textiles,” said Giovanni Catino, chief revenue officer of Loop Industries. “It supports the textile industry’s shift toward a circular model and provides a unique product offering which meets the needs of Loop’s customers as we secure agreements for the offtake of our India JV.”

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