Paris – March 17, 2026 – OnceMore® from Södra, the world’s first large-scale process for recycling blended fabrics into high‑quality dissolving pulp, will begin using TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, to strengthen traceability from raw material to retail across the value chain. OnceMore® produces dissolving pulp made from blended textile waste and wood sourced from responsibly managed Swedish forests. By integrating TextileGenesis, OnceMore® supports the growing need for verified data and secure, transparent tracking throughout increasingly complex supply chain.

Traceability as a foundation for circular MMCF and regulatory readiness

The implementation marks a key milestone for scaling circular MMCF, highlighting the role of digital traceability. It establishes a verified digital chain for OnceMore® materials, ensuring full chain–of-custody from pulp and fiber production through to finished garments. By unifying material movement and supply‑chain data into a single system, the rollout enhances transparency across tiers and geographies and increases supplier participation. Traceability from raw material to retail will give OnceMore® and its brand partners access to a verified digital chain of custody. This strengthens authenticated recycled‑content claims and provides a stronger data foundation for product‑level disclosures, reporting, and upcoming regulatory requirements, particularly in preparation for the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP).

TextileGenesis’ Fibercoin token technology will be used to generate digital tokens linked to material volumes, creating a secure and verified digital footprint at each transformation stage. This approach strengthens integrity across complex supply chains and supports scalable circularity programs beyond fragmented, manual documentation.

“Traceability across the value chain relies on reliable data and clear documentation,” said Tina Lemke, Marketing & Brand Experience Manager at OnceMore®.“ By introducing [waste and wood-to-retail] traceability through the TextileGenesis platform, we strengthen the integrity of our chain of custody and give our customers verified information about how materials move through each production step.”

Delivering scalable traceability through supplier enablement and platform excellence

OnceMore® supply chain partners are being onboarded to the TextileGenesis platform with structured implementation support. Suppliers will conduct transactions using TextileGenesis’ Fibercoin modules, enabling consistent data capture across the chain and creating visibility into material flow and supply chain participation.

“OnceMore® is one of the strongest circular innovations in MMCF today, and this rollout shows what it looks like to operationalize traceability at scale,” said Amit Gautam, Founder & CEO of TextileGenesis. “By embedding traceability directly into material transactions, this rollout creates the verified data infrastructure needed for regulatory compliance, brand accountability, and credible circularity claims.”

About TextileGenesis®

Founded in 2018, TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, provides a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that enables fashion brands and sustainable textile manufacturers to ensure a reliable, secure and fully digital traceability of their textiles, from the fiber to the consumer, and thereby guarantee their authenticity and origins. The platform provides traceability for textiles, leather and footwear, employing fiber forwards traceability for sustainable and certified materials and Supply Chain discovery approach to traceability for conventional materials.

Its innovative traceability mechanism, which addresses both ends of the textile value chain, as well as its network of partners for material certification, and its technology platform guarantee the exchange and tracking of reliable and secure data throughout a material’s life cycle. TextileGenesis platform also identifies and flags supply chain compliance/legal risks across the value chain from tier 1-4 for brands.

About Lectra

At the forefront of innovation since its founding in 1973, Lectra provides industrial intelligence technology solutions – combining software in SaaS mode, cutting equipment, data, and associated services – to players in the fashion, automotive and furniture industries. Lectra accelerates the transformation and success of its customers in a world in perpetual motion thanks to the key technologies of Industry 4.0: AI, big data, cloud and the Internet of Things.

The Group is present in more than one hundred countries. The production sites for its cutting equipment are located in France, China and the United States. Lectra’s 2,800 employees are driven by three core values: being open-minded thinkers, trusted partners and passionate innovators. They all share the same concern for social responsibility, which is one of the pillars of Lectra’s strategy to ensure its sustainable growth and that of its customers.

Lectra reported revenues of €507 million in 2025, including €89 million in SaaS revenues. The Company is listed on Euronext, and is included in the CAC All Shares, CAC Technology, EN Tech Leaders and ENT PEA-PME 150 indices.

For more information, visit lectra.com. 

About OnceMore®

OnceMore® produces high-quality dissolving pulp made of blended textile waste and wood from sustainably managed Swedish forests. It is the world’s first large-scale process for recycling blended fabrics and one solution to circularity for MMCF products. OnceMore® is a part of Södra, Sweden’s largest forest owners’ association, which has a world leading industry that processes forest raw material into renewable products.

OnceMore® was introduced to the market in 2019. At the beginning they had a content of 3% blended textile waste, today the product contains 20% blended textile waste. The aim is to reach a 50% blended textile waste content in the product. The operation is based in Sweden at one of Södra’s mill in located in Mörrum. 

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Every year, over 100 million tonnes of fiber are produced globally. A growing share of that comes from man-made cellulosic fibers (MMCFs) like viscose, modal, and lyocell. These materials can play an important role in the future of fashion, but when their feedstock is sourced from Ancient and Endangered Forests, the impacts are significant: pressure on biodiversity, increased carbon emissions, and the loss of some of the world’s most vital ecosystems.

The good news is that change is underway.

Through CanopyStyle, more than 580 brands have stepped up to help shift MMCF supply chains away from high-risk forest sources. Together, these brands are sending a powerful market signal: fashion cannot come at the expense of forests.  But as the sector moves from commitment to implementation, one thing has become increasingly clear — ambition needs infrastructure.

That is where Canopy’s collaboration with TextileGenesis comes in.

We’ve recently published a joint whitepaper with Canopy, Environmental Leadership Through Technology, that details how we’re working together to embed MMCF producer leadership ratings  directly into digital supply chain systems.

The problem: commitments without verification

Brands sourcing MMCFs face a specific challenge. The supply chain runs from forest to pulp mill to fiber producer to spinner to fabric mill to garment maker. At each stage, the connection to the original forest source gets harder to trace. Without visibility into which MMCF producer a brand is actually purchasing from procurement decisions become opaque.

Meanwhile, regulation is moving fast. The EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), entering into force from June 2026, will require proof that wood-derived commodities, including dissolving pulp used in MMCFs, are deforestation-free and fully traceable. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), phasing in from 2027, adds further obligations around environmental and human rights due diligence across supply chains.

What Canopy brings: the industry benchmark

Canopy created the Hot Button Report, the industry’s most comprehensive assessment of MMCF producer performance related to forest sourcing. It covers approximately 98% of global MMCF production and uses a clear, intuitive rating system: green shirts signal leadership , while yellow and red flag higher risk sourcing practices.

The latest report shows meaningful progress: 70% of MMCF producers now hold green or dark green ratings, representing 54% of global capacity. That’s a significant portion of the industry demonstrating low risk of sourcing from Ancient and Endangered Forests.

What TextileGenesis brings: proof at the transaction level

TextileGenesis tracks fiber journeys from MMCF producer to finished garment using our Fibercoin digital twin system. Each tonne of fiber receives a secure digital identity, which is recorded and reconciled at every stage of the supply chain. Today, the platform traces 4 billion garments across 300 brands and 22,000 supply chain roles, covering MMCFs, cotton, recycled synthetics, wool, cashmere, and linen.

By integrating Canopy’s Hot Button ratings directly into the TextileGenesis platform, we’ve made it possible for brands to see whether their MMCF supplier meets CanopyStyle requirements.

Why this matters now

This collaboration started with a pilot supported by Fashion for Good, testing whether Hot Button ratings could be built into a live traceability platform. The pilot proved successful, and TextileGenesis committed to onboarding MMCF producers that meet Canopy’s Green Shirt threshold.

For brands, this delivers a double assurance: sourcing decisions are aligned with Ancient and Endangered Forest goals, and every fiber transaction can be independently traced and verified. It’s one of the first instances of an NGO benchmark being hard-wired into a digital traceability platform.

The business case is clear. Brands that adopt this approach gain regulatory readiness ahead of EUDR and CSDDD enforcement, reduce reputational and legal risk tied to deforestation-linked supply chains, build consumer trust through evidence-based sustainability claims, and lower the operational costs of manual data collection and supplier audits.

Read the full whitepaper

The whitepaper covers the full scope of the collaboration: how the Hot Button Report works, how TextileGenesis embeds those benchmarks into a digital chain of custody, the business case for brands, and a practical 30-60-90 day roadmap for getting started.

Download the whitepaper: Environmental Leadership Through Technology

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