ITMF Announces Winners Of The 2025 Start-Up Award
The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) has announced the winners of the ITMF Start-up Award 2025, who will present their innovative business models at the ITMF & IAF Conference 2025, scheduled for 24–25 October in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, co-hosted by the Indonesia Textile Industry Association (API).
The ITMF Start-up Awards aim to provide emerging companies a platform to showcase groundbreaking ideas and connect with established players across the textile value chain.
The five winners of the ITMF Start-up Award 2025 are:
- Ambercycle (USA): A Bridge to the Future – Building Circularity at Scale
- aweXome Ray (Korea): CNT Fiber Innovation – From Dream Material to Industrial Reality
- BYBORRE (Netherlands): The Last Industry to be Digitized
- Silana (Austria): From Offshore to On-Demand – How Robotics is Reshaping Fashion Manufacturing
- ZymoChem (USA): Commercialization of Biobased Nylon 66
These start-ups represent the next generation of innovation in textiles, spanning circularity, digitalization, robotics, advanced fibres and sustainable materials.
