Company Portrait: Circular Systems SPC

//Company Portrait: Circular Systems SPC

[fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=””][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”3_5″ layout=”3_5″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” dimension_margin=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” class=”” id=””]Circular Systems S.P.C. (Social Purpose Corporation), is a Los Angeles-based clean-tech new materials science company, focused on converting agricultural, industrial and post-consumer wastes into high value textile fibers for the fashion industry.

The company offers solutions to combat the environmental pollution caused the fashion industry, which has recently been named as the second largest polluting industry in the world. 1[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”2_5″ layout=”2_5″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” dimension_margin=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” last=”no”][fusion_imageframe image_id=”5287″ max_width=”” style_type=”glow” stylecolor=”” hover_type=”zoomin” bordersize=”” bordercolor=”” borderradius=”” align=”center” lightbox=”no” gallery_id=”” lightbox_image=”” alt=”” link=”” linktarget=”_self” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””]https://www.earthsquad.global/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/3-49.jpg[/fusion_imageframe][/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” dimension_margin=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” class=”” id=””]The production and distribution of synthetic and mixed fibers, and garments used in fashion contribute to many forms of environmental pollution, and textile waste is an unintended consequence of fast fashion. Circular Systems S.P.C. turns these challenges on their heads, by viewing agricultural waste as a valuable resource for the fashion industry, based on the principles of a circular economy.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container][fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”https://www.earthsquad.global/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/33-11.jpg” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=””][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”2_5″ layout=”2_5″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”left top” undefined=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”0px” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” last=”no”][/fusion_builder_column][fusion_builder_column type=”3_5″ layout=”3_5″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.88)” background_image=”” background_position=”left top” undefined=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” padding_top=”40px” padding_right=”25px” padding_bottom=”25px” padding_left=”25px” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”0px” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” class=”” id=””]

History of the company

An interest in developing more high-performance natural materials led Isaac Nichelson, to meet co-founders, Yitzac Goldstein, a materials scientist who had created materials from recycled fibers and Geof Kime, who in the 1990s successfully pushed for legalization of industrial hemp in Canada so that it could be grown as a more sustainable alternative to synthetic materials. 2 The three have been collaborating for the past two decades through developing ideas on regenerative agriculture and sustainable textile production. However, it wasn’t until 2017 that they launched Circular Systems to bring these ideas to life. The team at Circular Systems have a combined experience in fiber, yarn, textile and finished goods manufacturing.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container][fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”45px” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=””][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”3_5″ layout=”2_3″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” dimension_margin=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” class=”” id=””]

In 1960, 97% of textile fibers came from plants and animals. Today, that number is approximately 35%. 3 Petrochemical fibers are now the norm and natural fibers are the exception. Circular Systems has spent the past 20 years creating a low-impact production process that is meant to redefine the meaning of sustainable materials in the fashion industry.

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The company are currently active in China, “rapidly expanding” in North America and soon to launch in Costa Rica.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container][fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”https://www.earthsquad.global/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/4-48.jpg” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=””][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”3_5″ layout=”3_5″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”rgba(255,255,255,0.87)” background_image=”” background_position=”left top” undefined=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” padding_top=”40px” padding_right=”25px” padding_bottom=”25px” padding_left=”25px” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”0px” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” class=”” id=””]

Company products and innovations

Circular Systems S.P.C. offers waste-to-fiber platforms Texloop™, Agraloop™, and Orbital™ Composite Yarn technology as break-through solutions for efficient management of textile and agricultural waste streams.

The Agraloop™ Bio-Refinery technology is a proprietary system that transforms crop waste into textiles. Agraloop™ recycles food crop waste into high-value natural fiber products in a cost competitive and scaleable way, providing sustainable and regenerative benefits.

This technology is potentially transformational because of the scarcity of natural resources available to cater for a growing world population. Over the last century, the global population has quadrupled. In 1915, there were 1.8 billion people in the world . 4 Today, according to an estimate by the UN, there are 7.3 billion people, and we may reach 9.8 billion by 2050 . This growth is driving up global resource demand. With a rise in the global demand for food, the production of agricultural wastes increases rapidly. Improper disposal of agricultural wastes result not only in environmental pollution, but also contribute to waste of valuable biomass resources. Additionally, crop burning pollutes the air and rotting agricultural waste releases methane into the atmosphere, which all contribute to global warming. 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Circular Systems S.P.C. may have found a part of the solution through its Agraloop™ platform, which utilizes a range of feed stocks, including oilseed hemp and oilseed flax straw, as well as pineapple leaves, banana trunks and sugar cane bark. Food crop waste is collected from China, North America, and soon Costa Rica to be spun into a natural fiber and woven into textiles. These five crops alone offer more than 250M tons of fiber per year, which equals 2.5x the current global fiber demand. Agraloop™ looks at crop residues as valuable resources, rather than waste. The technology also has the potential to brings additional income to farmers, by creating a low-cost, closed loop bio-refinery system to turn their crop residues into cash.

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A second innovation offered by the company is its Orbital™ Hybrid Yarns, which are an eco-friendly and revolutionary new yarn technology capable of producing high-performance yarns using recycled fibers. Orbital™ spins both food crop waste fibers and textile waste fibers together into a new yarn product. The resulting yarns have low pilling, high strength, and moisture management properties.

People around the world collectively consume more than 80 billion items of clothing each year, and those items are increasingly seen as disposable. 8 In 2013 alone, Americans discarded 15.1 million tons of clothing and other textiles, and 85% of that ended up in landfills. These are the reasons why fashion is considered as one of the most polluting industries in the world. 9 Discarded clothing in landfills don’t just lie there forever. They decompose. 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Their Texloop “Lightest-Touch” Processing strategies help preserve maximum embedded energy in recycled materials. Instead of landfilling, this technology allows us to recycle textile and garment waste into valuable new materials. 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Cooperations

As part of its next phase of growth, Circular Systems S.P.C. is eager to take its message out to the world. Recently, co-founder Nichelson received a fellowship to attend the second annual Levi Strauss & Co. Collaboratory, a special workshop with Levi’s executives with a focus on climate change.

Last year, Circular Systems was also selected to participate in the Fashion for Good Plug & Play accelerator produced by Belgian-headquartered retailer C&A. The Kering Group was also present, which runs brands including Gucci and Alexander McQueen. This accelerator aims to raise the profile of companies working in sustainable fashion and eventually interest the wider fashion industry in their ideas.

Circular Systems also presented at Silicon Valley’s largest and most important tech accelerator, Plug and Play Tech Center in June 2017, which for the first time, hosted companies with a theme around sustainability in tech. The Agraloop™ was the poster child of the circular economy and recycling efforts.[/fusion_text][/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container][fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”no” hundred_percent_height=”no” hundred_percent_height_scroll=”no” hundred_percent_height_center_content=”yes” equal_height_columns=”no” menu_anchor=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”center center” background_repeat=”no-repeat” fade=”no” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ video_mp4=”” video_webm=”” video_ogv=”” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_loop=”yes” video_mute=”yes” video_preview_image=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” padding_top=”45px” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=””][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ layout=”1_1″ spacing=”” center_content=”no” link=”” target=”_self” min_height=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” background_color=”” background_image=”” background_position=”left top” background_repeat=”no-repeat” hover_type=”none” border_size=”0″ border_color=”” border_style=”solid” border_position=”all” padding_top=”” padding_right=”” padding_bottom=”” padding_left=”” dimension_margin=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” last=”no”][fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_spacing=”” rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_color=”” class=”” id=””]

Most recently, the company was confirmed as the winner of the coveted 2018 Global Change Award, which recognizes the most exciting sustainable fashion developments. At a ceremony in Stockholm, Circular Systems was awarded a grant of $350,000 from the H&M Foundation, after being selected from among 2,600 applicants, coming from more than 180 countries. The company has partnerships in the works with global brands like H&M and Levis to integrate sustainable fibers into their brands.

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The company’s focus on collaboration is a core strategy, and will hopefully help to accelerate the global movement of resource efficiency in textiles and fashion. Circular Systems collaborates with investors and industry stakeholders who are interested in helping to ignite the circular or regenerative economy. They are engaging strategic industry off-takers for their fiber, yarns and other industrial products, hoping to propel these technologies into the wider market. It seems like a worthy cause to support.

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1 https://www.ecowatch.com/fast-fashion-is-the-second-dirtiest-industry-in-the-world-next-to-big–1882083445.html
2 https://www.circular-systems.com/news/2018/7/23/apparel-news-circular-systems-hits-boot-camps-to-learn-sustainability
3 https://www.circular-systems.com/news/2018/4/4/new-materials-start-up-circular-systems-wins-hm-foundations-coveted-2018-global-change-award-for-turning-food-crop-waste-into-sustainable-fashion
4 http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/sixbillion/sixbilpart1.pdf
5 https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/world-population-prospects-2017.html
6 https://innovation-awards.nl/innovation/the-agraloop/
7 Ibid.
8 http://www.takepart.com/video/2015/05/29/clothes-trash-landfill/
9 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-fashion-industry-tries-to-take-responsibility-for-its-pollution/2016/06/30/11706fa6-3e15-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html
10 https://www3.epa.gov/airtoxics/landfill/landfills-final-nsps-eg-factsheet.pdf

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