Clearly, waste is one of the textile industry’s greatest challenges — while post-consumer waste or used clothes represents the third highest form of municipal waste coming from households in India, pre-consumer waste is globally landfilled or incinerated to the tune of approximately 15 million kgs per year. All this waste has a significant cost — …
Khaloom is an India-based textile design and production house that produces hand-woven fabrics from recycled yarns: Creating value from waste and providing its workers with dignified livelihoods. Or how some describe it: Family. It is Enviu’s first venture addressing the obstacles to change in the textile industry and it is the venture that catalyzed the …
With our venture, SUSCLO, 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 worldwide and its negative social and environmental impact is enormous, with raw materials being the biggest contributor. Most of the environmental impact of the garment …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
