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.
Key people
In the news
- People think that we have a waste problem, but in actuality we have a design problem.” This point from Nicole McLaughlin in Arc'teryx Equipment’s SubwayTakes campaign is worth staying with. As Sarah Kent explores in The Business of Fashion, the challenge is also to make circularity relevant beyond the people who already care about sustainability. But communication is only one part of the equation. If we have a design problem, we need to change how products are designed and constructed. At Resortecs, this means looking at the
- Designing products is easy. Designing their next life is harder. 🧵 Most textile innovation still focuses on making better products. At Resortecs, we believe it's time to also innovate what happens after they're made. At this year's Dornbirn GFC, our CTO Acerina Trejo Machin, PhDwill present how Design for Disassembly can transform products once considered "impossible to recycle" into garments designed to be repaired, reused and ultimately recycled. Using the Helium Loop Anorak, developed together with Peak Performance, ALLIED
- From October 16 to 20, Resortecs will be part of The Fashion Factory at the Flanders Technology & Innovation Festival. Learn more about the festival and join us at WIELS Contemporary Art Centre: https://lnkd.in/d3Cge7FM
- 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐒𝐘𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐗 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 ⏰ From 22–24 September, the textile innovation community will meet in Antwerp, Belgium, for the fourth edition of the ECOSYSTEX Conference, hosted in partnership with the University of Antwerp. This year's theme, Circular textiles beyond recycling, brings together researchers, industry, innovators and policymakers to explore the next steps towards a truly circular textile ecosystem. 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞? ♻️ Two days of keynote
- A circular product starts with collaboration. One company cannot build a circular textile system alone. That's why, through the ReCover project supported by VLAIO - Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship, we're working alongside BekaertDeslee and mattressID by TripleR.io to rethink what happens long before a product reaches its end of life. By combining: • Smart Stitch™ for Design for Disassembly • Digital Product Passports and product traceability • Industrial manufacturing expertise We're exploring how products can remain
- Building a business is a marathon, not a sprint. At Resortecs , the second half of 2026 is taking this literally. _ We’re currently in the middle of: • 🧳 A travel marathon visiting vendors and Amann offices across 6+ countries • 🧵 A sales & production marathon to hit our post-fundraising growth targets • 🏔 Last weekend.. an actual mountain marathon! _ 42.2 km, 1,953m of elevation gain, and 5h 10m later, I finished the Jungfrau Marathon! ☑️ The first 30km went great, but past km 33, the only great thing left was the alpine view.
- We’re pleased to share that Resortecs has been nominated for the Trends Impact Awards 2026 in the Circularity & Value Chain Resilience category. 🌟 The nomination recognises our work to make circularity more practical across the textile value chain, from designing products for disassembly to enabling repair, recovery, delabelling and recycling. For us, circularity is increasingly about keeping options open and preserving value throughout a product’s life, rather than deciding what happens only when it becomes waste. If you think
- When you move from linear to circular systems, you’re not just reducing impact. You’re unlocking value.” Cédric Vanhoeck, CEO of Resortecs What if a garment’s end was not an end at all? A repair, reuse, recovered component, or new material stream all begin long before reaching the recycling facility, starting with how the garment is designed and assembled. H&M Foundation has just published an impact story on Resortecs, tracing our journey from an early experiment with dissolvable thread to more than one million garments produced
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