Global Change Award Alumni Exhibition

Global Change Award Alumni Exhibition: Ten Years of Change

[17 September - 14 October, 2025]

To celebrate 10 years of backing early-stage innovation and bold changemakers, Global Change Award and The Mills Fabrica have teamed up to present a one-month exhibition: Ten Years of Change.

Since 2015, the Global Change Award (GCA) has supported visionary Changemakers — pioneering thinkers with groundbreaking solutions to decarbonise the fashion industry and ensure a just and sustainable transition for both people and the planet.

This special anniversary exhibition spotlights 20 remarkable alumni, spanning next-gen materials and clean‑chemistry dyes, to pioneering circular solutions for product design, care, and recycling.

Through artefacts, prototypes, and finished garments, you’ll trace each Changemaker’s journey from spark of inspiration to real-world impact — revealing how they continue to disrupt, scale, and transform the industry from the ground up.

Step into the world of early-stage innovation, see how big change begins with a single idea, and imagine what’s possible when we choose to back the bold.

Please Note

The exhibition will be open for private viewings only on 17 September.

It will open to the public from 18 September onward.

List of Exhibiting GCA Alumni

DyeRecycle: DyeRecycle is a UK-based fibre and colour innovation company pioneering patented green chemistry technologies that recover synthetic dyes and high-value fibres from textile waste to enable circularity in the textile industry

Phycolabs: Phycolabs develops threads and textile fibres made exclusively from farmed seaweed, as a regenerative alternative to traditional fibres that is microplastic-free, petrochemical-free, traceable, and scalable.

Ponda: Ponda has developed a fibre extraction technology that transforms Typha seed heads into BioPuff®, a next-generation bio-based insulation material, designed for warmth and breathability.

Galy: GALY is transitioning the world to cellular agriculture, based on the belief that anything made from plant cells can be done faster, more efficiently, and with far fewer resources—in the lab.

Dimpora: Dimpora AG is a Swiss material science company behind a patented membrane technology platform, Corelayer Technology, enabling the creation of high-performance, sustainable, and circular membranes.

Petit Pli: Petit Pli is a London-based wearable technology company that, since 2017, has been inventing and applying groundbreaking material technologies, most notably its signature growing garments for children, to solve problems for individuals, businesses, and the planet across the textiles value chain.

Algaeing: Algaeing™️ is the clean colour company transforming the textile industry through algae-powered colour technology.

Resortecs: Resortecs enables large-scale textile recycling with eco-design support and heat-dissolvable threads for easy disassembly and material traceability.

Orange Fiber: Orange Fiber produces fiber, yarn, and fabrics from regenerated cellulose derived from citrus juice byproducts.

KBCols Sciences: KBCols Sciences is a biotech company pioneering sustainable, bio-based color solutions through innovative microbial fermentation technologies

RFIDTHREADS: RFIDTHREADS is revolutionizing apparel and asset tracking by seamlessly integrating RFID technology directly into textiles to deliver real-time inventory management, enhanced security, and actionable data insights.

SXD: SXD uses patent-published AI to generate zero material waste products that enable up to 69% material savings, ~80% reduction in CO2 emissions, and up to 55% in cost savings.

TextileGenesis: TextileGenesis™ is a scalable digital traceability platform trusted by leading fashion brands to track products across all supply chain tiers, from fiber to retail.

Ambercycle: Ambercycle is a material science innovator transforming end-of-life textiles into new resources to decarbonize the fashion industry.

Algreen: Algreen has designed, developed and patented 100% biobased polyurethane made from agricultural waste.

BIORESTORE: BIORESTORE Laundry Re-Tergent treatments extend the life of clothing & textiles, with the aim of preventing the endless and unnecessary "lifestyle to waste pile crisis".

Rubi: Rubi is re-inventing manufacturing to be symbiotic with the planet with a first-of-its-kind CO2-to-textiles technology.

Nanoloom: Nanoloom engineers next level performance graphene fibres and yarns that are biodegradable, fully recyclable and non-toxic.

ALT TEX: ALT TEX has created a biodegradable and recyclable alternative to polyester, re-engineered from food waste.

Refiberd: Refiberd has pioneered an AI-powered hyperspectral imaging technology for highly accurate material identification in post-consumer waste textiles.

Visitor Details

Exhibition Opening Hours (17 September – 14 October, 2025)

• Monday - Friday: 9am - 6pm
• Saturday & Sunday: CLOSED

About Global Change Award

The Global Change Award is an innovation challenge by the H&M Foundation, accelerating the textile industry’s path to net-zero through bold ideas that benefit both people and the planet. ​Each year, ten winners share a €2 million grant and gain access to the yearlong Changemaker Programme – provided by the H&M Foundation in collaboration with Accenture, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and The Mills Fabrica. ​

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About The Mills Fabrica

The Mills Fabrica is a global innovation ecosystem with outposts in Hong Kong and London, dedicated to accelerating sustainable and social impact start-ups within the Agrifood and Techstyle sectors through a VC fund, co-working space, strategic partnerships, industry events and an innovation gallery and concept store; Fabrica X.

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