Camira, a leading textile designer and manufacturer, has innovated Lucia T2T, a new recycled polyester made entirely from 100% textile-to-textile (T2T) waste. This innovation aims to address the growing, global textile waste crisis and promote a circular approach to textile design.
On the United Nations’ International Day of Zero Waste, March 30, 2025, Camira will unveil Lucia T2T, which blends pre-consumer textile offcuts from garment manufacturing and post-consumer clothing that has reached the end of its wearable life.
Ian Burn, Camira’s Director of Marketing and Sustainability, said: “Lucia T2T is a new generation textile which helps combat the environmental impact of textile waste. It’s a reimagination of our first post-consumer recycled polyester, previously made from plastic bottles, now made from 100% textile-to-textile waste from the apparel industry.”
With millions of tonnes of fabric sent to landfills each year, and less than 1% recycled into new products, fast fashion is a significant contributor to global textile waste. The UN’s Day of Zero Waste highlights the need for circular solutions in fashion, supporting Sustainable Development Goals 11 and 12.
Ian Burn continued: “Camira has always been an industry leader when it comes to the manufacturing of sustainable fabrics, having introduced our first recycled fabric in the 1990s. But Lucia T2T is the next step for us – we’re viewing textile waste, from our own manufacturing or the wider textile industry, as a hugely valuable, precious resource which allows us to create new materials, and support a circular economy.”
Lucia T2T is produced through tertiary recycling, where discarded textiles are shredded, crushed, and treated to remove colorants and treatments, resulting in a regenerated polyester with no colour constraints that meets commercial performance standards.
To learn more, visit Camira’s website or their London showroom during Clerkenwell Design Week, May 20-22, 2025.
About Camira:
Camira designs and manufactures textiles for every space and sector; from commercial and residential, to public transport, including bus, coach and rail.
Camira is a privately-owned UK textile group founded in 1974 under the name Camborne Fabrics, but its heritage goes back to 1783 through various acquisitions. Until a management buy-out in 2006, the company was a subsidiary of Interface, an international manufacturer of textile modular floor coverings, for almost ten years. Today, Camira has an annual turnover of around £85 million and employs more than 630 people. Its products are sold in approximately 75 countries and the business produces eight million metres per year.
Headquartered in the UK, the company has manufacturing facilities in the UK and Lithuania, offices and showrooms in Europe, North America, Australia and China and a global network of agents and distributors.
The company has always been a pioneer in sustainable textiles, introducing its first recycled fabrics in the 1990s, as well as innovating a new category of fabrics made from natural wool and plant fibres, such as nettles, flax and hemp.
Find out more: camirafabrics.com