Partners for CTF25
For more than 50 years, Arauco has been developing products based on renewable forest resources, allowing it to offer a wide variety of sustainable and quality solutions that improve the lives of millions of people worldwide.
Our products are part of a value chain for the paper, apparel, construction, packaging, furniture, and energy industries.
With a presence in the forestry, cellulose, wood, panels, and clean and renewable energy sectors, we are a globalized company with a presence on five continents, reaching more than 4,000 customers around the world.
Altri Group is a leading European company specializing in the production of fibers and sustainable forest management. Headquartered in Portugal, Altri operates several industrial units dedicated to the manufacturing of high-quality eucalyptus fibers, used in a wide range of industries, including paper, textiles, or biodegradable packaging. The company is strongly committed to sustainability in all its dimensions, for example by managing certified forest areas, of which 10% are dedicated to conservation. Altri also invests in innovative, eco-friendly production processes, reinforcing its role as a key player in the global fiber market and a driver of sustainable and versatile material solutions.
OnceMore® produce high-quality dissolving pulp made of blended textile waste and wood from sustainably managed Swedish forests. OnceMore® is a part of Södra, Sweden’s largest forest owners’ association, which has a world leading industry that processes forest raw material into renewable products.
Södra was founded in 1938 on the idea that we are stronger together. Today, Södra is Sweden’s largest forest owners’ association with more than 50,000 family forest owners as members. Together, the members of Södra own a world-leading industry that processes forest raw materials into renewable products in paper- and dissolving pulp, wood, building systems, energy, and biochemicals.
The Lenzing Group is committed to eco-responsible production of specialty fibers made from cellulose and recycled materials. As an innovation leader, Lenzing partners with global textile and nonwoven manufacturers to drive new technological developments. The Group’s high-quality fibers, such as TENCEL™ and LENZING™ ECOVERO™, serve as the foundation for a wide range of textile applications, from comfortable and stylish clothing to durable and sustainable home textiles. With their unique properties and botanical origin, TÜV-certified biodegradable and compostable Lenzing fibers are also ideal for everyday hygiene products.
The business model of the Lenzing Group goes far beyond that of a traditional fiber producer. Together with its customers and partners, Lenzing develops innovative products along the value chain, creating added value for consumers. The Lenzing Group strives for the efficient utilization and processing of all raw materials and offers solutions to help transform the textile industry from the current linear economic system towards a circular economy. In order to reduce the speed of global warming and thus also support the targets of the Paris Agreement and the EU Commission’s “Green Deal”, Lenzing has developed a clear science-based climate action plan that aims to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and a net-zero goal (scope 1, 2 and 3) by 2050.
Fairly Made is a French tech scale-up helping fashion brands drive transparency and sustainability through its SaaS platform. Based in Paris and Milan and operating from La Caserne, Europe’s largest sustainable fashion hub, it supports brands in four key areas:
Founded in 2018, Fairly Made has grown to 70+ employees and supports 100+ brands, including LVMH, Versace, Fendi, Paul Smith, and Karl Lagerfeld.
Metsä Group’s innovation company Metsä Spring invests in and supports potential innovations and technologies that find new purposes and higher value for Nordic wood to replace fossil-based materials and chemicals in everyday products. We promote a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion.
To date, Metsä Spring has made six external startup investments (Woodio, Innomost, Montinutra, Fiberwood, Adsorbi, and FineCell), and has launched three in-house development projects, Kuura textile fibre, Muoto packaging solutions and capture of biogenic CO2.
Sappi unlocks the power of trees to make every day more sustainable
Sappi is a leading global provider of powerful everyday materials made from woodfibre-based renewable resources. As a diversified, innovative, and trusted leader focused on sustainable processes and products, we are building a more circular economy using every part of the tree. Sappi works closely with customers to provide relevant, everyday solutions. Our dissolving pulp branded as Verve, are used worldwide by converters to produce viscose fibre, pharmaceutical products as well as a wide range of household and consumer products. Verve is the Fibre of Choice.
Founded in 2018, TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables fashion brands and sustainable textile manufacturers to ensure a reliable, secure and fully digital traceability of their textiles, from the fiber to the consumer, and thereby guarantee their authenticity and origins. The platform provides traceability for textiles, leather and footwear, employing fiber forwards traceability for sustainable and certified materials and Supply Chain discovery approach to traceability for conventional materials.
Its innovative traceability mechanism, which addresses both ends of the textile value chain, as well as its network of partners for material certification, and its technology platform guarantee the exchange and tracking of reliable and secure data throughout a material’s life cycle. TextileGenesis platform also identifies and flags supply chain compliance/legal risks across the value chain from tier 1-4 for brands.
Cellulose Fibres Conference 2025 – New with Biosynthetics: Meet the Next Generation of Sustainable Fibre Technologies
The unique Cellulose Fibres Conference 2025, 12-13 March in Cologne, Germany, will pave the way to a sustainable textile industry. The conference will present the most successful cellulose-based solutions currently available on the market, strategies in changing market conditions, and will also offer insights into current industry discussions and dynamic sales channels:
This year, for the first time, the conference will include a dedicated session on biosynthetics (bio-based polymer fibres) – a promising area to complement the textile alternatives. Market insights and future predictions will be offered into the future of cellulosic fibres, which fits perfectly with the current shift towards circular economy, recycling and sustainable carbon cycles.
All information and registration at: https://cellulose-fibres.eu
Accelerating Circularity is a nonprofit that catalyzes new circular supply chains and business models to turn used textiles into mainstream raw materials. ACP envisions a world where textiles are no longer wasted. Its approach is to research, map, model, and test circular, textile-to-textile systems from collection, sorting, preprocessing, and recycling through the conventional supply chain at standard commercial scale. The work demonstrates that textile-to-textile circular systems are feasible and worth engaging in for the entire supply chain. Because textiles are too good to waste.
Healthy forests help life on Earth thrive. The Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®) – a nonprofit organization that covers more than 150 million hectares of certified forests – provides the world’s most credible sustainable forestry solution, trusted by NGOs, consumers, and businesses to help promote healthy and resilient forests, for all, forever.
Equally governed by environmental, social, and economic perspectives, FSC helps forest managers, smallholders, and governments ensure thriving forest ecosystems and safeguard the livelihoods of forest communities. FSC’s forestry standards, linked to a strict chain of custody certification, are a proven solution to fight the climate and biodiversity crises. The FSC logo – found on millions of products worldwide – is the most recognized mark for responsible forestry.
PEFC is the world’s leading forest certification organization, dedicated to promoting sustainable forest management. With a robust framework and rigorous standards, PEFC ensures that forests are managed responsibly, preserving biodiversity, mitigating climate change, and supporting forest communities. PEFC’s certification provides assurance to organizations that forest-based products originate from sustainably managed sources.
By sourcing PEFC-certified MMCF materials, brands and retailers get assurance that forest-based products originate from sustainably managed forests that contribute to a forest-positive future and align with brands’ deforestation-free, biodiversity and climate commitments.
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Textile Exchange is a global non-profit driving beneficial impacts on climate and nature across the fashion, textile, and apparel industry. We guide a growing community of brands, manufacturers,
and farmers towards more purposeful production from the very start of the supply chain.
Our goal is to help the industry to achieve a 45% reduction in the emissions that come from producing fibers and raw materials by 2030, while keeping our focus holistic and interconnected
and seeking to improve the state of our freshwater, soil health, and biodiversity too.
For real change to happen, everyone needs a clear path to beneficial impact. That’s why at Textile Exchange, we believe that approachable, step-by-step instruction paired with collective action
can change the system to make preferred materials and fibers the accessible default, mobilizing leaders through attainable strategies, proven solutions and a driven community.
At Textile Exchange, materials matter. To learn more, visit TextileExchange.org
Partner with Challenge the Fabric to foster meaningful change and collaboration and contribute to the advancement of MMCF’s impact within the fashion and textile industry.
Our partners and sponsors play a vital role in our efforts by offering strategic insights and resources that propel and enhance our agenda forward. We welcome your support as a platinum, gold, silver or bronze sponsor.
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