FiberFlow Reaches Top 20 of the H&M Foundation Global Change Award 2025

FiberFlow has been selected as one of the top 20 finalists for the Global Change Award 2025, run by the H&M Foundation. Out of thousands of applications from around the world, FiberFlow is one of twenty early-stage innovations that made it to this stage.

What the Global Change Award Is

The Global Change Award is one of the largest innovation prize in the textile industry. Run annually by the H&M Foundation since 2015, it backs early-stage ideas with the potential to fundamentally change how the textile industry operates. Each year, ten winners share a €2 million grant — €200,000 each — and gain access to the yearlong GCA Changemaker Programme, delivered together with Accenture and KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Reaching the top 20 means FiberFlow's approach to fiber-level separation of post-consumer textile waste has been assessed against the field and found to be among the most promising ideas currently in development anywhere in the industry.

Why This Matters

The textile recycling sector has a contamination problem. Chemical and thermo-mechanical recycling processes require clean, single-fiber input. The infrastructure to sort blended post-consumer waste to that level of purity does not yet exist at scale. That is exactly the gap FiberFlow is working to close.

Being recognised at this stage is a signal that the problem FiberFlow is tackling is real, and that the approach to solving it is credible.

What Comes Next

The ten winners will be announced in the coming weeks. Whatever the outcome, reaching the top 20 of the Global Change Award puts FiberFlow on a short list of the most relevant early-stage textile innovations in the world right now. That visibility matters , for future partners, investors, and recycling companies looking for fiber separation solutions.