French start-up Syntetica has raised $30 million in a Series A funding round backed by Lululemon and manufacturer MAS Holdings to scale synthetic fibre recycling. The capital will fund Syntetica’s first commercial demonstration facility at Michelin’s Centre for Sustainable Materials in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
The facility will industrialise a patented chemical process capable of recycling two major types of nylon—Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6—simultaneously within a single workflow. Conventional technologies require these variants to be separated before processing, which has historically limited the volume of post-consumer garment recovery.
The funding round was led by Bpifrance’s Ecotechnologies 2 fund under the France 2030 investment plan, with participation from Swen Capital Partners, EQT Ventures, and family offices linked to Peugeot, Etam, and Indorama Ventures.
Global nylon production reached approximately 7 million tons in 2024, but recycled nylon accounts for only 2 per cent of the market due to the technical difficulties of processing mixed-fibre garments.
Syntetica, founded by Marco Bertone and Louis Monsigny, already collaborates with brands including Victoria’s Secret and Etam, and plans to eventually expand its recycling platform into the automotive and specialty chemical sectors.
