CARBON-TO-FIBER INFRASTRUCTURE™
We turn captured carbon into yarn.
Your next fiber was captured, not extracted.
Carbon as the feedstock
Each kilogram of fiber locks away more CO₂ than it emits, turning a pollutant into a product
Proprietary Conversion Tech
A proprietary conversion process turns captured CO₂ directly into textile-grade cellulose
Built for South Asia
Positioned for Pakistan's textile exporters facing tightening EU carbon regulation
A Domestic, Compliance-Ready Fiber for a Regulated World
What We Make
CarbonYarn™ produces textile-grade cellulose fiber not from trees or oil, but from captured industrial carbon dioxide. The result is a premium, Lyocell-grade material comparable to TENCEL, with its carbon drawn from an off-gas stream instead of a forest.
Why It Matters Now
For South Asian textile exporters, whose largest customer is Europe, the carbon intensity of their materials is shifting from a reputational concern to a direct cost of doing business. A domestically produced, compliance-ready premium fiber changes that equation.
The commercial pressure
The pressure on a mill is commercial before it is regulatory. Brands committing to Scope 3 reductions have one real lever, the purchase order, so fiber origin and emissions data are already arriving as conditions of sale. European product rules under ESPR and the Digital Product Passport follow on a slower timetable.
Why Now
Turn Carbon Liability Into Your Competitive Edge
EU carbon regulation is shifting from a reputational concern to a direct cost of doing business. Exporters who move to carbon-storing fiber now won't be scrambling when it lands.
Buyers are asking for emissions data
EU buyers already ask textile suppliers for emissions data, ahead of the rules. A lower-carbon fiber with documented footprint data is easier to buy from.
Textile Digital Product Passport expected
The EU's Digital Product Passport will bring granular, comparable carbon data to textiles, making every product's footprint visible to buyers and regulators alike.
From Captured Carbon to Finished Fiber
Three stages turn industrial CO₂ into a textile-grade yarn your supply chain already knows how to use.
Capture
CO₂ concentrated at the source
Conversion
Turned directly into cellulose
Spinning
Spun into continuous, spoolable fiber
Live 3D model
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Rotate a live 3D model of the process and step through each stage in detail.
Explore the 3D modelConcept visualization. © 2026 CarbonYarn
The Environmental Case
Conventional textiles emit carbon during production. Our process does the opposite, and avoids the land, water, and feedstock burdens of traditional fibers.
Net carbon locked away per kg of yarn produced
No wood pulp, unlike conventional viscose and modal
Decouples fiber production from agriculture entirely
Closed-loop spinning recycles its own solvent
Lifecycle Carbon Comparison
*Per kilogram of fiber. Polyester and viscose are cradle to gate figures from Higg MSI v3.12 (2026). The CarbonYarn figure is an approximate net balance from in silico modelling, not yet measured. Boundaries differ, so this shows scale, not a like-for-like ranking.
Carbon Stored, Not Just Avoided
The carbon in CarbonYarn is physically part of the fiber, not an offset certificate bought against it. It stays there for the life of the textile. That is storage, not permanent removal, and we report it as storage.
Aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals
CarbonYarn's process contributes directly to six of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
See Your Impact in Real Time
Pick a product, set the quantity, and watch the climate benefit add up
Cradle-to-yarn-gate footprint of the conventional fiber you would replace.
Carbon Stored (Modelled)
Modelled, not yet measured
Replaced Fiber Footprint
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Yarn Needed
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The modelled storage is about the same as...
Figures are illustrative and pre-commercial. "Replaced fiber footprint" is the cradle to gate footprint of the conventional material you select (Higg MSI v3.12 and Sateri 2025; boundaries differ). "Carbon stored" is the CO₂ that CarbonYarn would lock into the fiber for the life of the textile (storage, not permanent removal), approximately 1.5 kg CO₂e per kg of fiber (an in silico modelled estimate, not yet measured). The two figures are shown separately and are not added together. Equivalences use US EPA factors: 0.25 kg CO₂ per km driven by an average passenger vehicle, 8 g per smartphone charge, and 2.35 kg per litre of petrol burned. They express scale, not a direct offset, and are shown as "<1" rather than rounded up whenever the figure does not yet reach a whole unit.
Founder's Story & Vision
Born from a simple conviction, that the carbon we treat as waste is the most valuable raw material we have
"For as long as I can remember, I've been preoccupied with one question: how do we keep industry growing without letting it cost us the planet? The more I looked, the more it became clear that CO₂ sits at the centre of it all, it is the problem, but it can also be the answer. CarbonYarn™ is my attempt to prove that the carbon we emit can be turned into the fiber we wear."
Founder, CarbonYarn
Where It Began
The idea grew out of years of thinking about environmental change and where its real drivers lie. Industrial CO₂ kept coming back as the common thread, vast, unwanted, and treated purely as a liability. The opportunity was hiding in plain sight: if that carbon could be captured and rebuilt into something useful, the equation would flip entirely.
The Mission Today
CarbonYarn is built and led as a solo founding venture, lean by design, focused on doing the hard technical and commercial work properly rather than chasing scale prematurely. The goal is to turn captured industrial carbon into premium cellulose fiber that stores carbon that textile exporters can actually use.
The Long View
CarbonYarn is the first venture under the DRG Group of Companies, a long-term industrial vision to build manufacturing infrastructure built on captured carbon from the ground up. This is not a quick exit; it is the start of an industrial buildout measured in decades, not quarters.
The Road Ahead
A deliberate, decade-scale industrial buildout
From validated science to regional infrastructure
The Road Ahead
A deliberate, decade-scale industrial buildout, from validated science to regional infrastructure
Concept & In-Silico Validation
Defining the Viridis Framework and validating the core conversion stage computationally before any wet-lab spend.
Key Milestones:
- Full three-stage process architecture defined
- Complete, validated process documentation
- Process model built and cross-validated
- Net carbon balance modelled at approximately -1.5 kg CO₂e/kg (in silico)
Customer Discovery & Lab Validation
Validating demand with Tier-1 mills while taking the process from model to bench.
Key Milestones:
- Customer discovery with Tier-1 textile exporters via APTMA
- Engagement with research partners on process stability
- First bench-scale CO₂-to-cellulose proof of concept
- Carbon credit methodology groundwork (durable-product pathway)
Pilot Production
Deploying a modular unit at a host point source and producing first commercial-grade fiber samples.
Key Milestones:
- Containerised pilot unit co-located at an ethanol point source
- First Lyocell-grade yarn samples from captured CO₂
- Mill compatibility trials and spec validation
- Seed funding round
Commercial Scale & Regional Expansion
Scaling the modular host-partner model across the South Asian textile belt.
Key Milestones:
- Commercial-scale modular deployments
- Supply agreements with textile exporters
- Carbon credit issuance for stored carbon, methodology permitting
- Expansion across the South Asian textile belt (Pakistan, Bangladesh, India)
Concept & In-Silico Validation
Defining the Viridis Framework and validating the core conversion stage computationally before any wet-lab spend.
- /Full three-stage process architecture defined
- /Complete, validated process documentation
- /Process model built and cross-validated
- /Net carbon balance modelled at approximately -1.5 kg CO₂e/kg (in silico)
Customer Discovery & Lab Validation
Validating demand with Tier-1 mills while taking the process from model to bench.
- /Customer discovery with Tier-1 textile exporters via APTMA
- /Engagement with research partners on process stability
- /First bench-scale CO₂-to-cellulose proof of concept
- /Carbon credit methodology groundwork (durable-product pathway)
Pilot Production
Deploying a modular unit at a host point source and producing first commercial-grade fiber samples.
- /Containerised pilot unit co-located at an ethanol point source
- /First Lyocell-grade yarn samples from captured CO₂
- /Mill compatibility trials and spec validation
- /Seed funding round
Commercial Scale & Regional Expansion
Scaling the modular host-partner model across the South Asian textile belt.
- /Commercial-scale modular deployments
- /Supply agreements with textile exporters
- /Carbon credit issuance for stored carbon, methodology permitting
- /Expansion across the South Asian textile belt (Pakistan, Bangladesh, India)
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