Carbon-Negative Fibre Infrastructure

We turn captured carbon into yarn.

Your next fibre was captured, not extracted.

Computationally validated·Proprietary process·Built for CBAM

Carbon-Negative

Each kilogram of fibre 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 Fibre for a Regulated World

What We Make

CarbonYarn™ produces textile-grade cellulose fibre not from trees or oil, but from captured industrial carbon dioxide. The result is a premium, Lyocell-grade material comparable to TENCEL, but carbon-negative rather than carbon-intensive.

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 fibre changes that equation.

The Regulatory Squeeze

  • CBAM, the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism places a real financial cost on the carbon embedded in imported goods, eroding the advantage of carbon-intensive materials.
  • Digital Product Passport - rolling out from 2027, the EU's DPP will require granular environmental data for every textile entering the European market, making carbon footprint visible and comparable.
  • Together, these turn the carbon intensity of a fibre into a hard commercial variable, not a soft marketing claim.

Why Now

Turn Carbon Liability Into Your Competitive Edge

The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism entered its definitive period in January 2026, placing a real, rising cost on carbon-intensive imports, and that pressure travels back through supply chains to the mills and brands that source from exporters. Finished apparel isn't tariffed directly at the border today, but the direction of travel is unmistakable. The EU's Digital Product Passport will bring granular, comparable carbon data to textiles, with compliance realistically landing around 2028, making every product's footprint visible to buyers and regulators alike. Exporters who move to carbon-negative fibre now won't be scrambling when that arrives.

Jan 2026
CBAM definitive period begins
~2028
Textile Digital Product Passport expected

From Captured Carbon to Finished Fibre

Three stages turn industrial CO₂ into a textile-grade yarn your supply chain already knows how to use.

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Capture

CO₂ concentrated at the source

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Conversion

Turned directly into cellulose

03

Spinning

Spun into continuous, spoolable fibre

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Rotate a live 3D model of the process and step through each stage in detail.

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The Environmental Case

Conventional textiles emit carbon during production. Our process does the opposite, and avoids the land, water, and feedstock burdens of traditional fibres.

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kg CO₂e

Net carbon locked away per kg of yarn produced

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Trees Felled

No wood pulp, unlike conventional viscose and modal

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Arable Land

Decouples fibre production from agriculture entirely

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Solvent Recovery

Closed-loop spinning recycles its own solvent

Lifecycle Carbon Comparison

CarbonYarn (Viridis Framework)-1.5 kg CO₂e
Conventional Polyester+9.5 kg CO₂e
Organic Cotton+5.9 kg CO₂e

*Per kilogram of material, full lifecycle. CarbonYarn figure is a conservative net balance; modelling indicates -1.65 to -1.77 kg CO₂e/kg.

Carbon Stored, Not Just Avoided

Unlike offsets that merely avoid emissions, the carbon in CarbonYarn is physically built into the fibre, sequestered for the functional life of the textile, typically 10 to 30 years.

1.5 kg CO₂e
Conservative net removal per kg of fibre, after accounting for all process inputs

Aligned with UN Sustainable Development Goals

CarbonYarn's process contributes directly to six of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

Interactive

See Your Impact in Real Time

Pick a product, set the quantity, and watch the climate benefit add up

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Cradle-to-yarn-gate footprint of the conventional fibre you would replace.

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Total Climate Benefit

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CO₂ avoided plus CO₂ actively removed

Emissions Avoided

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CO₂ Removed

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That's the same as...

km driven in a car
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smartphone charges
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litres of petrol burned
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Figures are illustrative and pre-commercial. "Emissions avoided" is the lifecycle footprint of the conventional material you select, which CarbonYarn replaces. "CO₂ removed" is the CO₂ that CarbonYarn locks away, more than 1.5 kg CO₂e per kg of fibre (a conservative figure; detailed modelling indicates -1.65 to -1.77 kg CO₂e/kg). 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 the scale of the benefit, not a direct offset, and are shown as "<1" rather than rounded up whenever the benefit 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 fibre we wear."

M. Matee

Founder, CarbonYarn

A DRG Group of Companies venture

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, carbon-negative cellulose fibre 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 carbon-negative manufacturing infrastructure 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

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Completed2025 to mid 2026

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 confirmed at -1.5 kg CO₂e/kg (conservative)
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CurrentLate 2026 to 2027

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)
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Planned2028 to 2029

Pilot Production

Deploying a modular unit at a host point source and producing first commercial-grade fibre 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
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Future2030 onward

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
  • /Verified carbon removal credit issuance
  • /Expansion across the South Asian textile belt (Pakistan, Bangladesh, India)

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