ZÜRICH, Switzerland — October 8, 2025 — The winners of the ITMF Start-up Awards 2025 will present their business models at the upcoming ITMF & IAF Conference 2025 which will be held from 24 – 25 October in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and will be co-hosted by the Indonesia Textile Industry Association (API).
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 well-established companies from the entire textile value chain.
The 5 winners of the ITMF Start-up Award 2025 are (in alphabetical order):
- Ambercycle, USA: https://www.ambercycle.com/
- A Bridge to the Future – Building Circularity at Scale
- aweXome Ray (Korea): https://awexomeray.com/
- CNT Fiber Innovation – From Dream Material to Industrial Reality
- BYBORRE (Netherlands): https://byborre.com/
- The Last Industry to be Digitized
- Silana (Austria): https://www.silana.com/
- From Offshor to On-Demand – How Robotics is Reshaping Fashion Manufacturing
- ZymoChem (USA): https://www.zymochem.com/
- Commercialization of Biobased Nylon 66
Source: The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF)