ABOUT PYRATEX

• Pyratex was founded in 2014 in Madrid, Spain, with the goal of replacing synthetic textiles with natural and more responsible options made from vegetal, upcycled or biodegradable fibres.
• The company has a number of primary fabric brands: Pyratex Health, Pyratex Tropic, Pyratex Freshness, Pyratex Cosmetic, Pyratex Upcycled, Pyratex Bio, Pyratex Power, Pyratex Core, Pyratex Musa, Pyratex Element and Pyratex Life. Each of these brands has a range of numbered product lines.
• Pyratex sources its natural ingredients for their unique properties and uses its proprietary formula to turn the fibres into a yarn, before locally knitting its fabrics in specialised factories, using low-impact dyes and water recycling.
• The company’s most popular product range is Pyratex Cosmetic, a seaweed-based lyocell fibre, selected due to its antioxidant qualities.
• Other natural plant-based raw ingredients include Kapok flowers, Bamboo, Nettle and abaca, as well as more conventional wood pulp sourced from eucalyptus trees.
• Pyratex has partnered with sustainability platform BCome to create an impact passport for each of its fabrics. The passport outlines the material’s composition and gives a Planet score out of five for environmental assessment and evaluation, covering production impact, savings, and equivalences.
• The impact passport also gives a mark out of five for People, Transparency, and Circularity.
• Pyratex will assist brands with labelling, content, press, and social media promotion of items made using its products.
• Pyratex is a GOTS, GRS and OCS-certified textile supplier, and its factories and processes also use Oeko-Tex Standard 100, Bluesign, EU Ecolabel, USDA Biopreferred, FSC and PEFC certifications.
• Pyratex produces to-order in Italy, Spain and Portugal to better control traceability, emissions, waste and resources, and help establish high-quality local partnerships. More recently, it has started production in Mexico for its America-based clients.
• The company works with a number of fashion brands, with some collaborations involving textile R&D. Its partners include Pepe Jeans, Alter Made, Fiorucci, Pangaia, AZ Factory, Phillip Lim and Camper, among others.
• In 2019, one such brand partner – Japanese shoe brand Asics – bought a stake in Pyratex as part of a EUR 600,000 (USD 579,000) funding round. This followed a EUR 71,400 (USD 69,000) grant from the EU’s Horizon 2020 project in the same year.