Södra's OnceMore Partners With TextileGenesis to Verify Circular Textile Waste Supply Chains

Circular MMCF has had a proof problem. Södra's OnceMore® changed what was possible at the raw material end, building the world's first large-scale process for turning blended textile waste into dissolving pulp. What it could not do, until now, was hand that proof downstream in a form that holds up across spinning mills, garment factories, auditors and the EU's incoming wave of disclosure mandates. The integration with TextileGenesis, announced in March 2026, is the verification infrastructure that changes that equation.

OnceMore® dissolving pulp is a genuinely unusual feedstock: reclaimed blended fabrics, the cotton-polyester mixes that most recycling streams reject, combined with wood from responsibly managed Swedish forests and processed into a dissolving pulp that spins into man-made cellulosic fibres. The recycled-content story has always been real. The paper trail proving it at batch level, across every hand the material passes through, was not.

TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, closes that gap through its Fibercoin™ technology. Every tonne of OnceMore® pulp that enters the chain receives a digital token tied to its material volume, recording the batch's origin (what fraction is reclaimed textile waste, what fraction is certified forest wood) and logging a chain-of-custody event at each transformation stage: pulp to fibre, fibre to yarn, yarn to fabric, fabric to finished garment. The system prevents double-counting and flags volume discrepancies rather than letting them vanish into supplier-managed spreadsheets.

"By introducing [waste and wood-to-retail] traceability through the TextileGenesis solution, we strengthen the integrity of our chain of custody and give our customers verified information about how materials move through each production step," said Tina Lemke, Marketing and Brand Experience Manager at OnceMore®. Amit Gautam, founder and CEO of TextileGenesis, was direct about the stakes: "OnceMore is one of the strongest circular innovations in MMCF today. This rollout shows how to operationalize traceability at scale."

The rollout is already underway. Supply chain partners are being onboarded to the TextileGenesis platform, recording transactions through its modules and building the auditable record that brands need for something more durable than a marketing claim. What is coming on the regulatory side makes that record the minimum viable evidence. The EU Deforestation Regulation, entering into force in June 2026, requires verified traceability for wood-derived commodities including the dissolving pulp at OnceMore®'s core. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive adds environmental due diligence obligations from 2027. The EU Digital Product Passport will require brands to surface specific material data to buyers at point of sale, QR-accessible and audit-ready.

For a brand sourcing OnceMore®-content fabric, what this integration makes concretely possible is layered verification: confirmed recycled textile waste and certified wood fractions at batch level; a Fibercoin™-linked record of blend composition that survives the pulp-to-garment journey intact; chain-of-custody event logs that an external auditor can retrieve without chasing tier-three suppliers; and a dataset structured for Digital Product Passport and CSRD-aligned disclosures. OnceMore® already mandates a minimum 30 percent OnceMore® fibre content for fabrics entering its supplier hub. With TextileGenesis embedded, that 30 percent is no longer a contractual number sitting in a purchase order. It is a Fibercoin™-tracked figure that moves with the material.

That shift, from claimed to verified, is where circular MMCF finally becomes credible enough to scale.