TextileGenesis and Recover Team on Traceability Pilot

Sourcing Journal

Recover and TextileGenesis are collaborating on a traceability pilot, meant to help track recycled material through its life.

Recover produces recycled cotton fiber blends used by brands and retailers aiming to make their value chain more circular. TextileGenesis, owned by technology company Lectra, is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering that better enables traceability for fashion and apparel purveyors. By joining forces, the companies are hoping to validate the promise of Recover’s circularity capabilities.

The pilot uses TextileGenesis’s Fibercoin tool, which in effect creates a digital twin of a particular asset that can be tracked through the value chain. Fibercoins can be used to track fibers, fabrics and garments alike. In this case, TextileGenesis used Fibercoin to create a token for each kilogram of Recover material, which is intended to verify movement through the supply chain. The companies will use two styles to test the traceability of items through different types of supply chain systems.

Recover helped bring its supply chain partners onto the TextileGenesis platform, where they learned how the technology works and completed mock transactions with Fibercoin items.

Once the pilot is complete, TextileGenesis and Recover plan to use the technology for broader fiber-to-garment traceability across retail supply chain use cases at a larger scale. The idea is that, by tracing the material input through to the retail storefront, companies will more easily be able to validate circularity and recycling claims. For companies doing business inside the European Union, that will become particularly important ahead of incoming regulations, said Orsolya Janossy, senior sustainability manager at Recover.

“Traceability plays a foundational role in validating circularity claims and preparing for regulations like the EU Digital Product Passport,” Janossy said in a statement. “This pilot will enable us to test the TextileGenesis system in real-world conditions. It will provide our brand partners with verified data to support responsible sourcing, product-level disclosures, and credible circularity claims.”

Recover already uses physical tracers for its materials, but by teaming with TextileGenesis, it hopes to further validate circular claims and add more transparency into brands and retailers’ supply chains. Amit Gautam, founder and CEO of TextileGenesis, said the company is well suited to take on that task with Recover.

“Recover is demonstrating how traceability can be embedded into circular business models—not just to validate recycled content, but to create the verified data infrastructure needed for regulatory compliance and brand accountability,” Gautam said in a statement. “This sets the foundation for scalable, digital traceability across the recycled fiber ecosystem.”

This article was published June 3, 2025. Lectra is a member of SPESA.

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