What does a truly circular textile business look like when you operate both a factory floor and a recycling line? We sit down with entrepreneur Vincent Jin to map the entire loop—from shrinking order sizes and digitized sewing lines to China’s door‑to‑door collection networks feeding textile‑to‑textile recyclers. The story starts with a family manufacturer shaped by early Scandinavian sustainability demands, and then accelerates as DTC, tariffs, and lead‑time pressure force radical flexibilit...
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What does a truly circular textile business look like when you operate both a factory floor and a recycling line? We sit down with entrepreneur Vincent Jin to map the entire loop—from shrinking order sizes and digitized sewing lines to China’s door‑to‑door collection networks feeding textile‑to‑textile recyclers. The story starts with a family manufacturer shaped by early Scandinavian sustainability demands, and then accelerates as DTC, tariffs, and lead‑time pressure force radical flexibilit...
Sorting the Future: Rikke Bech on Scaling Circular Textile Innovation with NewRetex
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8 months ago
Sorting the Future: Rikke Bech on Scaling Circular Textile Innovation with NewRetex
Meet the woman who's revolutionizing how we handle textile waste. Rikke Bech, CEO and founder of NewRetex, joins us from her facility in Denmark to reveal how her company has developed groundbreaking automated sorting technology that's changing the economics of textile recycling. Five years ago, Rikke saw a gap in the textile industry's approach to waste. While brands were talking about sustainability, the infrastructure to actually recycle clothing effectively didn't exist. Textile sorting ...
LOOPED IN with Carl Warkentin
What does a truly circular textile business look like when you operate both a factory floor and a recycling line? We sit down with entrepreneur Vincent Jin to map the entire loop—from shrinking order sizes and digitized sewing lines to China’s door‑to‑door collection networks feeding textile‑to‑textile recyclers. The story starts with a family manufacturer shaped by early Scandinavian sustainability demands, and then accelerates as DTC, tariffs, and lead‑time pressure force radical flexibilit...
