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With our venture Future Proof Production House our goal is to pursue the sustainable production of garments and make sustainable fabrics increasingly accessible to brands. The apparel industry is the second most polluting sector world wide and its negative social and environmental impact is enormous, with raw materials being the biggest contributor. Most of the environmental …

Future Proof Production House aims to drive the material revolution Read More »

We are building new handlooms at Khaloom! Khaloom is scaling up! We are installing ten more new handlooms that will be operational by the end of September, resulting in an increase of in-house production capacity from 2000 meters per month to 4000 meters per month. This will let us keep up with the market demand, …

Khaloom: growing proof of a circular and fair approach to textile production Read More »

“The Dream was to prove to the world that it is possible to have mainstream garments that are sustainable & circular for a price that everyone can afford”  – Pals Brust, Co-founder of UPSET Textiles.  After working for almost 40 years at C&A, and having been the CEO of C&A Benelux, Pals Brust came to …

Rejuvenating fabric & the future of sustainable fashion – a conversation with Pals Brust, Co-founder & CEO UPSET Textiles Read More »

DesertSpring is joining forces with Solidaridad! Enviu is a proud partner of DesertSpring, an alliance of 3 front running companies, striving for a sustainable and fair leather and apparel sector. With DesertSpring, we’re bringing a patented technology to the market that offers manufacturers a sea-buckthorn based alternative to the use of chemicals and heavy metals …

We’ve teamed up with Solidaridad to restore value to degraded land with a sea buckthorn value chain Read More »

Gigi has always been driven by ambition and purpose. Before joining Enviu, she co-founded an engineering integrated systems company to build systems that improve safety and efficiency for railway assets. She was the only non-engineer on the team, but fell in love with technology and creating solutions that improve everyday lives. It’s exactly this that …

Impact-driven entrepreneurship, Sustainable Innovation, and the Circular Fashion Movement in India – A Conversation with Gigi Mathews, Head of Reweave in India Read More »

In India, textile and leather industries generate a lot of wastewater during the production process. After treating wastewater, large quantities of solid waste or sludge remain, often containing hazardous chemicals and metals. The existing solution is to simply landfill this sludge. Every year in India, approximately 4 million tons of hazardous sludge is dumped in …

Puraloop: A pioneering solution towards a zero discharge textile & leather sector Read More »

The fashion industry is infamous for the working conditions in the production process. Workers in garment factories are expected to toil for long working hours only to receive low wages, lack of regular contracts and working hours, and hazardous working conditions. With Enviu’s Reweave program we are building companies that disrupt the current status quo …

Meet Kasthuri, one of the weavers at our company Khaloom Read More »

The current apparel value chain is mostly linear—take, make, dispose—resulting in huge amounts of waste and the destruction of value. There is an urgent need to transition from linear production to a fully circular and inclusive fashion economy, in which renewable resources are used, the true value of materials is captured, and people throughout the …

Why we’re focusing on production in India Read More »

The ongoing pandemic has brought the global economy to a standstill and is posing unprecedented challenges to the fashion industry. It lays bare pain points within the industry and makes clear the need for shifts in the behaviour of both consumers and producers.  It’s far from business as usual for anyone right now. However one …

Building ventures during COVID-19 Read More »

An Interview with Marieke Lenders – Program Lead Reweave Marieke, can you introduce the Reweave program? Reweave is a business-intervention program run by Enviu with a goal to create a fair and circular apparel value chain in India. We do this as entrepreneurs, by building disruptive social and sustainable ventures that drive the market towards …

Introducing Reweave: Why change is needed and what we’re doing about it Read More »