vs conventional industrial reactive dyeing. The advanced process reuses water across cycles and eliminates most of the wash-out step that historically dominated water consumption.

vs conventional industrial reactive dyeing. Bio-based fixation chemistry replaces high-temperature steam steps. The energy footprint per metre printed drops by roughly an order of magnitude.

target by 2030. The reactive process is engineered around closed-loop chemistry: natural mineral pigments and bio-based auxiliaries replace the petrochemical inputs that historically caused most of the water-treatment burden.

Every Fabrixa unit is made because someone ordered it. No speculative inventory. No end-of-season landfill. The on-demand structure is the single biggest sustainability lever in textile production — nothing else removes overproduction at the source like making fewer units.

Our entire chain runs in Portugal and Spain. EU-internal freight replaces sea freight from Asia, removing tens of kilograms of CO2e per shipment over typical retail-to-DTC distance. EU labour, regulatory, and audit standards apply.

Apparel and bedding bases are 100% organic cotton with GOTS chain of custody. Cotton is biodegradable; polyester is not. We use synthetic substrates only where outdoor durability requires them (poly-acrylic for outdoor cushions, microfiber for wet-room shower curtains).

Reactive print bonds dye into the cotton. There’s no plastic film, no transfer adhesive, no surface layer that ends up as microplastic shedding through wash cycles. The garment is cotton end-to-end.

The Portuguese print process uses natural mineral pigments and bio-based auxiliary chemistry. The conventional petrochemical-derived dye stack is being phased out across the partner’s production line.

Water is recovered and reused across dyeing cycles. The closed-loop system is the structural reason the 98% water reduction figure holds — we don’t take fresh water and discharge it as wastewater per metre of print.

Closed-loop water across all dyeing and finishing.

No fresh-water input per metre of print, no wastewater discharge. The 98% reduction figure today reflects progress along the same trajectory.

Operational scope-1 + scope-2 emissions to net zero.

Energy supplied from renewables, fixation chemistry decarbonised, transport within EU on rail / electric haul where feasible. Audited annually.

Bio-based dye stack with no petrochemical residual.

Replaces conventional reactive-dye auxiliaries with natural mineral pigments and bio-derived chemistry. OEKO-TEX-listed end-to-end.

A typical conventionally-dyed printed cotton T-shirt carries ~70–100 litres of embedded water. Our reactive process at the Portuguese hub cuts that figure dramatically — the precise per-SKU number is available on request for ESG reporting.

On-demand production removes overproduction emissions. EU-internal freight removes sea-freight emissions. Reactive print on cotton avoids the embodied emissions of polyester / synthetic substrates. Per-SKU kgCO2e estimate available on request.

100% organic cotton biodegrades naturally. No petrochemical print layer means no microplastic shedding through wash cycles. The garment closes its lifecycle the way cotton always has — by going back to soil.

We don’t sell offsets or claim net-zero today. Operational emissions exist and are tracked; we’re working toward zero by 2030 through process change, not certificates.

Every textile carries embodied water, energy, and carbon. Our claim is that we’re running an order of magnitude better than conventional industrial dyeing at the print-and-fix stage — not that the impact is zero.

Outdoor cushions and shower curtains use synthetic substrates because cotton can’t survive those use cases. We disclose this on each product page rather than fudging the line.

The word means too many things. We say what we’ve certified, what we’ve measured, and what we’re working on. The boring approach is the credible one.