The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) has announced the five winners of the ITMF Start-up Award 2025, who will present their pioneering business models at the ITMF & IAF Conference in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, from 24–25 October 2025. The event will be co-hosted by the Indonesia Textile Industry Association (API).

The ITMF Start-up Awards aim to give emerging companies a platform to showcase their innovations and connect directly with established players across the global textile value chain. This year’s winners represent a wide spectrum of cutting-edge technologies, each contributing to the industry’s ongoing transformation toward circularity, digitalisation, and sustainability.

The 2025 winners are:

Ambercycle (USA) – A Bridge to the Future – Building Circularity at Scale

www.ambercycle.com 

aweXome Ray (Korea) – CNT Fibre Innovation – From Dream Material to Industrial Reality

www.awexomeray.com

BYBORRE (Netherlands) – The Last Industry to be Digitised

www.byborre.com

Silana (Austria) – From Offshore to On-Demand – How Robotics is Reshaping Fashion Manufacturing

www.silana.com

ZymoChem (USA) – Commercialisation of Biobased Nylon 66

www.zymochem.com

The ITMF Start-up Awards continue to highlight the power of innovation in shaping a more efficient, sustainable, and technologically advanced textile industry.

www.itmf.org