Tricia Carey

The message from the Textile Exchange conference at Pasadena was clear: transformation is within reach. From regenerative practices to circularity that benefits all, it was a clarion call to trade extractive growth for a future that thrives on restoration and collaboration.

A start-up with a meteoric rise almost and a sudden burn out, bankruptcy-hit Renewcell, now awaits investments to put it back on track. texfash.com talks to its Chief Commercial Officer Tricia Carey to know more.

In the textiles-fashion ecosystem, news is usually ephemeral. But when Swedish innovator Renewcell dispatched the first shipment of its Circulose dissolving pulp to a customer, the excitement remained palpable for weeks on end. Tricia Carey, Chief Commercial Officer at Renewcell, talks about the flurry of activities at the company.

A ‘playbook’ from nonprofit Accelerating Circularity charts out the fundamental steps for creating circular systems to turn spent textiles into the raw materials used to produce new textiles.