The Stora Hållbarhetspriset was established by the University of Borås, the City of Borås, Borås Näringsliv, and Sparbanken Sjuhärad through its owner foundation.
The jury’s citation
This year’s winner shows that transition is best achieved together with others. By collaborating with stakeholders across the industry, the company builds networks that drive the sustainable and circular economy forward. In an industry facing major challenges, the winner demonstrates that responsibility and growth can go hand in hand. By using already produced textiles instead of newly manufactured raw materials, this year’s winner makes environmental sustainability its core business. The company avoids breaking materials down and therefore achieves maximum environmental impact, an important alternative to a one sided focus on fibre recycling. With its production model, it opens a new market for remanufacturing within the textile value chain and inspires circular business. By putting employees’ skills at the centre, the winner shows how integration can shift from a challenge to an opportunity.
The University of Borås reports that XV Production won the Stora Hållbarhetspriset 2025 for running a sustainable, circular business that reuses existing textiles and treats fair work and creative skill as central.
READ THE NEWS →Bubbleroom’s new Bubbleroom Ateljé line uses surplus high-quality fabrics from Scandinavian brands. XV Production makes it locally in Borås, with digital product passports and virtual 3D prototyping that cut waste and sampling.
READ THE ARTICLE →Together with XV Production, Swedish Stockings created a unique piece with Nicole Walker, a top made from stockings. The journal sits down with XV to learn more about their approach.
READ THE ARTICLE →Svensk Form recognises XV Production as a model for the fashion industry, citing innovative circular business models and a Borås micro-factory that offers the full production chain and avoids overproduction.
READ MORE →Vogue Scandinavia talks to Gant’s Christopher Bastin, Highsnobiety’s David Fischer and Zalando about Gant Remake, a capsule that reworks Gant’s campus classics. The capsule was produced in-house by XV Production in Borås.
READ THE ARTICLE →Vogue Scandinavia picks NA-KD’s Future Remake collection as one of the month’s sustainability initiatives: previously unloved pieces reworked into a new collection. The collection was produced by XV Production in Borås.
READ THE ARTICLE →The second part of a survey on fashion upcycling interviews two manufacturers, XV Production and Beskow von Post, about the prospects and challenges of scaling up upcycled production.
READ THE ARTICLE →Linnéa Magnusdotter, co-founder of XV Production, on why fashion’s shift to circularity is a matter of time, and why it starts with better systems for collecting and sorting used textiles.
READ THE INTERVIEW →Företagarna names XV Production one of Sweden’s 103 young ideas of the year. The founders started the company straight after upper secondary school, the beginning of today’s 400 square metre creative textile factory in Borås.
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