Lululemon backs nylon recycling startup Syntetica in $30M Series A
Activewear company Lululemon has invested in the $30 million Series A round raised by Syntetica, a French startup that developed a novel approach to recycling nylon, whose properties make it both too good to give up but hard to reuse.
Syntetica promises to recycle two types of nylon — Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6 — that can’t easily be sorted out from each other in the textile waste collected from consumers, its CEO Marco Bertone told TechCrunch.
With tons of clothing ending up in landfills each year, one key reason for the fashion industry to invest in more circularity is customer perception, especially for premium apparel brands. Startups like Syntetica also benefit from regulatory tailwinds, and from recent price volatility that unusually affected nylon.
In the last six months, geopolitical turmoil in the oil industryhas led to quarterly or weekly nylon price renegotiations, Bertone said. “It’s been a...
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