Overview
Founded in 2017 in Brussels by Cedric Vanhoeck and Vanessa Counaert, Resortecs has developed a system of heat-dissolvable stitching threads and compatible disassembly infrastructure for the fashion and textile industry. Garments stitched with Resortecs' Smart Stitch thread can be disassembled automatically in a thermal chamber, separating fabric panels, zippers, and labels without mechanical cutting, enabling cleaner material recovery for recycling.
With EUR 8.7M raised in total, the company works with fashion brands to integrate the stitching at manufacturing stage, making end-of-life recycling a designed-in feature rather than an afterthought. The model addresses a fundamental bottleneck in textile circularity: most garments are too complex to disassemble economically at scale.
Resortecs positions Belgium as a hub for circular fashion technology, alongside the country's broader cleantech and circular economy innovation.
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In the news
- November is a busy month for the Resortecs team, with opportunities to connect across Europe and exchange ideas on the future of textiles, fashion and circularity. From industry trade fairs and technical workshops to conferences and roundtables, our team will be taking part in discussions on how innovation, product design and industrial solutions can help move circularity forward. Here’s where you can meet us in November: 📍 3–6 November | ECOMONDO – Rimini, Italy Maria Fernanda Martinez, our Head of R&D, will be
- Resortecs is taking Design for Disassembly to the runway at ISPO Amsterdam! We’re proud to be featured in Fashion. For a Future., the Eco Age-curated runway bringing together performance, design and material innovation, in partnership with The Mills Fabrica. At Resortecs, we believe circularity starts with how products are constructed. Our Smart Stitch™ heat-activated sewing threads allow selected seams to be opened under controlled heat, creating new possibilities throughout a product’s lifecycle: from repair and component
- Join us next week at ISPO as we take the runway with The Mills Fabrica and Eco Age! We're proud to showcase our solutions alongside other incredible innovations, echoing the conversations around Fashion for a Future.
- We're heading to the runway at ISPO Amsterdam 2026! As well as the panel discussion that our Head of Europe, Amy Tsang will be moderating, we are also excited to announce that we are partnering with Eco Age on Fashion For a Future; a curated runway bringing together performance, design and material innovation to explore the future of fashion and textiles. We are thrilled to be showcasing innovations from companies across our network, including AMPHICO, dimpora®, Nuyarn, Resortecs, Sparxell and Synflux, highlighting how new materials
- Next week at ISPO, our Business Development Consultant, Baljinder Miles, and our Marketing and Communications Manager, Sofia Scevaroli, will be there as Resortecs solutions take the Eco Age runway. Join us at the Fashion & Textiles Hub, Hall 11, to see how our technologies work in practice, with products developed alongside leading brands and designed to keep future pathways open: to repair, recover and recycle. Attending ISPO? Get in touch with us to connect in person. 📍 Fashion & Textiles Hub, Hall 11
- Products are designed once, but they may need to evolve many times. 🪄 Resortecs makes that possible. We provide Design for Disassembly technologies that keep future options open by making selected parts of products easier to access, separate, recover and that also means Repair. 🗺️ A garment should not have only one future. Here is the amazing part: - the product does not need to perform differently during its first life - the difference comes when you need to do something with it later 👣 Plan and design for the future with us
- A sewing thread can determine what happens to that garment next. In a recent feature by Apparel Resources, journalist Dheeraj Sharma spoke with Cédric Vanhoeck, our Co-Founder & CEO, and Sanjeev Kumar Grewal, Regional Business Director Asia, Middle East & Pacific at AMANN Group, about how thread is becoming a more strategic part of apparel design and manufacturing. The conversation looks at Smart Stitch™, and how a small change at the seam can create very different possibilities throughout a product's lifecycle. That can mean
- Dressing up for the #GCA gala by the H&M Foundation in the Stockholm City Hall is always an honor; especially when you’re standing alongside visionary partners who aren't afraid to call out what’s broken so we can build what actually works. _ This years global change award by the H&M Foundation was all about collaboration. And it turns out, on that subject, we have a lot to learn from chickens. 🐓 Jim Tamm’s keynote drove home an uncomfortable truth: hyper-competitive environments might produce standout individual egos, but
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