The ITMF Awards 2024 are presented in two categories:
• ITMF Sustainability & Innovation Award
• ITMF International Collaboration Award
The winners of the ITMF Start-up Award 2024 will present their business models at the upcoming ITMF & IAF Conference 2024 which will be held from 8-10 September 2024 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan and will be co-hosted by the Uzbek Textile & Apparel Industry Association (UZTS).
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 wellestablished companies from the entire textile value chain.
The 4 winners of the ITMF Start-up Award 2024 are (in alphabetical order):
• RE&UP Recycling Technologies (Netherlands): https://reandup.com/
RE&UP – scalable recycling technologies for high-performance fibres
• Sci-Lume Labs (USA): https://www.sci-lumelabs.com/
Bylon – scalable, melt-spun fibers without oil or waste
• Sycoretec CAS (China): https://www.sycoretec.com/index.php?lang=en
SYCORE-TEX – materials of topological softgel for ultra-thermal insulation
• Syre Impact (Sweden): https://www.syre.com/
Syre hyperscales textile-to-textile recycling
