Recover™ x TextileGenesis: Building Trust in Circular Fashion

Lenzing’s traceability story

Through Strategic Partnership

Recover™, a global producer of recycled cotton and cotton-blend fibers, has commenced a traceability collaboration with TextileGenesis™ to digitally track their recycled waste materials across the entire textile value chain.

The Pilot

The collaboration focuses on tracing Recover’s recycled cotton and polycotton inputs from fiber production through to finished garments. Two representative styles were selected to test the platform across different supply chain configurations. TextileGenesis’ Fibercoin™ technology was used to generate digital tokens for every kilo of material, creating a verified chain of custody at each transformation stage.

The pilot marks a significant milestone in Recover’s circularity roadmap, demonstrating how digital traceability can validate recycled content, drive supplier participation, and enable regulatory compliance, particularly in preparation for the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP). This pilot with Textile Genesis’ traceability solution intends to complement Recover’s existing physical tracer and GRS certification, adding another layer of traceability and transparency.

Traceability as a foundation for circularity and regulatory readiness

Fiber-to-retail traceability will enable Recover™ and its brand partners to access a verified digital chain of custody. This includes authenticated recycled content claims, integration with physical tracer audits where relevant, and visibility into supplier ESG credentials across the chain.

The whitepaper: Building Trust in Circular Fashion

Following the pilot, together we have released the whitepaper “Building Trust in Circular Fashion.”

This document offers a deep dive into our new traceability pilot using Fibercoin™ digital tokens to track Recover’s recycled cotton and polycotton from waste to finished garment.

Following an incredibly engaged webinar with 50+ questions from brands and suppliers, this pilot marks a major step forward in:

✅ Verifying recycled content beyond certification
✅ Enabling real-time, article-level traceability
✅ Preparing for EU regulations like the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) and Digital Product Passports (DPP)
✅ Scaling circularity through supplier engagement and digital infrastructure with TextileGenesis™

Download the whitepaper here to explore how we’re creating a secure chain of custody and setting a new standard for transparency in fashion.