WTiN Textile Innovation Podcast speaks to Dr. Gediminas Mikutis, co-founder & chief technology officer at Haelixa.

Haelixa is a Swiss technology company, spun off from ETH Zürich, that provides DNA-based traceability for industries including textiles. The traceable technology enables brands to verify material origins and claims to enhance supply chain transparency. 

Already Haelixa is used by brands including Hugo Boss. In this episode Mikutis outlines the numerous benefits of supply chain traceability within the textile industry. He touches upon compliance and upcoming regulations as an industry push towards building greater transparency. 

Haelixa uses natural DNA from native mountain herbs to mark and trace fibres like organic cotton and cashmere. Mikutis explains how Haelixa is able to imprint textiles with its DNA technology to trace fibres’ origins at every stage of the supply chain.

Throughout the episode Mikutis uses and references real world case studies to illustrate why Haelixa’s work is not only important, but essential, to the textile industry moving forward. 

If you would like to learn more, please visit haelixa.com.