Our Winners
Meet our heroes – the winners of the Global Change Award – and find out how their innovations are reinventing the fashion and textile industry.
Innovation has the power to do it, and previous GCA winners prove it. Already, several past winners are used by, or in collaborations with, global brands and businesses to transform the entire textile industry.
Below you get an overview of our GCA winners through the years.
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Algae Fabrics
What if the answer to some of fashion’s most pressing issues lies just below the surface of the ocean? Algae Fabrics extracts cellulose from seaweed and immerses it in a liquid, creating a regenerative textile that needs no land — and obviously no watering.
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Algaeing
Algaeing transforms seaweed into bio-fibre and eco-friendly dye. And it gets better — the product releases antioxidants and vitamins that benefit the skin.
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Algreen
The foam in our shoes, the coating on our coats, the invisible seams on our gym clothes include polyurethane, a resilient petrochemical causing microplastics pollution. Algreen is a biobased alternative creating adhesives, foams and coatings made with regenerative technology reducing plastic pollution.
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ALT TEX
Using three steps, ALT TEX transforms food waste and makes it wearable. The novel solution ferments waste into polymers, melts polymers into yarn, and spins yarn into an industrially biodegradable polyester.
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Ambercycle
What’s gone, isn’t gone forever. Ambercycle brings end-of-life textiles back to life, unlocking new life cycles for materials through a molecular regeneration process. The innovation separates components in textiles and creates pure raw materials for brands and manufacturers.
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BIORESTORE
A laundry solution that removes pilling and restores shape and colour to worn-out garments. The solution’s perfect mix of enzymes and minerals react with water and fibres, launching a bio-chemical process that renews clothes in one wash.
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Circular Systems
Banana trees, pineapple leaves, rice straws, sugar cane stalks and seed oil from hemp and flax. These food byproducts are often seen as waste and left to rot. Circular Systems’ innovation transforms leftovers into bio-textiles in a cost competitive and scalable way.
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circular.fashion
With state-of-the-art digital tools, circular.fashion is moving the textile industry towards circularity. It enables manufacturers to champion circular textiles. Makes it easy for designers to choose sustainable techniques. And gives consumers a product passport showing an item’s planetary impact.
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Deakin University
Jeans are fashion’s most iconic style. But giving the wardrobe staple their signature blue pigment is one of the industry’s most water-consuming processes. Deakin University has a developed a solution that makes it possible to use used denim to dye new denim.
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dimpora
To make outdoor wear withstand harsh weather conditions, environmentally harmful substances are often added. Dimpora has developed a solution. Their biodegradable, non-toxic, mineral-based membrane shields humans against the elements — and benefits the planet’s shared resources.
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DyeRecycle
DyeRecycle uses green chemistry to give discarded fabric a second chance and salvage their dyes — enabling the colour from an old garment to be extracted, revived, and used to dye new fabrics.
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EON
EON is codifying the world’s products and giving them digital ID’s. A solution unlocking total traceability and adding value to discarded items, while making resale, recycling and repurposing simple.