The winners of the ITMF Start-up Awards 2026 will present their business models at the upcoming ITMF & IAF Conference 2026 which will be held from 14 – 15 October 2026 in Fortaleza, Brazil and will be co-hosted by ABIT (Brazilian Textile & Apparel Industry Association).
The objectives of the ITMF Start-up Awards are to provide start-ups a platform to showcase their innovative ideas and to offer them the possibility to meet in-person with well- established companies from the entire textile value chain.
The 5 winners of the ITMF Start-up Award 2026 are (in alphabetical order):
- Matereal, Switzerland: www.matereal.co/, Business Concept: Charting the New Frontier – Biobased Polymers and AI for Textile Manufacturing
- no.wasTee Soluções em Confecções Sustentáveis, Brazil: nowastee.com/, Business Concept: Zero-Waste Design for a Low-CO₂ Textile Industry
- Tellura Technologies, Brazil: www.telluratech.com, Business Concept: 100% Natural Yarn: From Fashion to Aerospace Biocomposite
- Unspun, USA: www.unspun.io, Business Concept: Automating Apparel Supply Chains with 3D Weaving
- Yuantian Biotechnology (Tianjin), China: www.yuantianbio.com/, Business Concept: Enzymatic Recycling and Industrialization of Waste PET Plastic.
