Coats is joining the group of world’s leading and most influential organisations, brought together by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to demonstrate how the transition to a circular economy can be accelerated. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation Network is leading the transition to a circular economy which represents systemic change.

Coats developed Epic EcoVerde, the world’s first 100 per cent recycled premium sewing thread and continues to develop a range of products, which are made from recycled materials as a stage towards full circularity. It is also designing products to help facilitate circular processing within the textile garment industry.

As an Ellen MacArthur Foundation Network member, Coats will be joining events, workshops and other collaborative activities. It will be looking to how it can work with the textile industry, and also other industries within which it operates, to make products to be used more, made to be made again and made from safe and recycled or renewable inputs.