Artus Group

What Artus Group does

Artus Group (legal entity Artus Trade House GmbH) is a Germany-based, privately held circular textile services provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in Bad Oldesloe. The company serves fashion retailers and brand owners across 13 countries with a workforce of more than 780 employees, offering an end-to-end used-textile value chain spanning collection, sorting, trading, de-labeling/repair/re-labeling, and both mechanical and chemical recycling. Its core operations center on grading incoming post-consumer textiles into 400 categories aligned to a Value Hierarchy (re-wear, re-make, re-cycle), distributing re-wearable stock through a global overstock trading network, and supplying recycled fiber back into retail partner supply chains and to downstream insulation-material factories serving automotive, construction, carpet, and furniture industries.

The technology stack combines physical infrastructure with digital tooling: customizable partner-branded collection boxes are deployed at retail locations; a mobile take-back application operates online and offline for post-consumer goods; a blockchain-based tokenization system issues digital vouchers to consumers returning used textiles; and a B2B Transparency Platform at trading.artus-invest.com provides visibility into circular textile transactions. The company holds the international Global Recycling Standard (GRS) certificate from Control Union of Switzerland, which is a meaningful credential for recycled-content claims in enterprise supply chains. A strategic partnership with the German Red Cross supports collection modernization, and India operations processed 20,042 tons of post-consumer goods in FY2019, up from 13,255 tons in FY2018.

Commercially, Artus operates a pure B2B, enterprise field-sales model with no publicly disclosed pricing. Revenue is generated through a mix of professional service fees for textile collection, sorting, grading, de-labeling, repair, and re-labeling; transaction-based fees for overstock trading and recycled fiber/material sales; and hardware revenue from customized collection boxes. No revenue figure, funding history, M&A activity, or external investor ownership is disclosed in available source material, leaving the company's financial scale inferred from operational proxies rather than directly reported.

Name

Artus Group

Legal name

Artus Trade House GmbH

Website

https://artus-invest.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

Artus Group is a Germany-based circular textile services provider serving fashion retailers and brand owners in 13 countries with collection, 400-category sorting, overstock trading, and mechanical/chemical recycling back into retail supply chains.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Textile Recycling Services

NAICS

Apparel Accessories and Other Apparel Manufacturing (3159)

SIC

Apparel & Other Finishd Prods Of Fabrics & Similar Matl (2300)

akta.pro primary industry

Circularity Compliance, Traceability & Certification Services (EPR/Product Passports/Chain-of-Custody) (IMAOAMAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sustainable & Certified Materials (Organic, Recycled, Traceable) (CRAAAMAK)

Keywords

• Textile recycling services
• Circular fashion solutions
• Post-consumer textile grading
• Used clothing processing
• Recycled fiber supply

Headquarters

HQ city

Bad Oldesloe

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Textile Collection and Processing Services: Artus Group acts as a servicing company for fashion retailers, providing circular recycling facilities for post-consumer goods. Revenue is generated through service fees for textile collection, sorting, grading (400 categories), and processing.
2. Global Overstock Trading Network: Making global overstock trading network available to clients, enabling brand owners to handle overstock and access desired markets. Revenue derived from trading activities and market access facilitation.
3. Recycled Fiber and Raw Materials Supply: Extracts fibers from post-consumer goods and supplies retail partners with recycled raw materials. Fibers are supplied back into the production cycle of retail partners.
4. De-label, Repair and Re-label Services: Services to brand owners that aid in handling overstock and extending product lifecycle through repair and re-labeling services.
5. Customized Collection Infrastructure: Provides reimagined and redesigned collection boxes customized to reflect partner interests, facilitating collection of used textiles at retail locations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Artus Group operates as a B2B servicing company for fashion retailers and brand owners, providing full circular textile solutions spanning collection of post-consumer and overstock textiles, grading into 400 categories (re-wear, re-make, re-cycle), de-label/repair/re-label services, and open- and closed-loop mechanical and chemical recycling that returns fibers to retail supply chains. It complements these services with customizable collection boxes, a digital Ecosystem take-back application, blockchain-based consumer voucher tokenization, and a B2B Transparency Platform (trading.artus-invest.com).

Product overview

Artus Group operates a circular textile economy platform spanning 13 countries with over 780 employees. The product portfolio centers on Artus Invest as the main brand platform, supported by the Take-Back System (mobile collection infrastructure), Ecosystem (digital rewards platform with blockchain tokenization), B2B Transparency Platform (trading.artus-invest.com), and Patchwork Tote Bags (upcycled products). Core services include textile grading into 400 categories (Lifecycle Product/Re-wear), mechanical and chemical recycling through Closed Loop and Open Loop systems, De-label/Repair/Re-label (Artus Trade Services), and Collection infrastructure. The Value Hierarchy framework and Mapping process organize materials through re-wear, re-make, and re-cycle pathways. The company processes post-consumer goods and overstock, supplying recycled fibers back into retail partner supply chains.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Artus Invest Circular Solutions Platform The main Artus Group brand platform providing fashion retailers and brand owners access to take-back services, grading, recycling, and the B2B transparency platform across 13 countries.
• Take-Back System Mobile take-back infrastructure operating online and offline to collect post-consumer textiles, enabling consumers to return used clothing to the point of original sale.
• De-label, Repair and Re-label Services (Artus Trade Services) B2B services for brand owners to handle overstock, make desired markets accessible, and extend product life cycles through de-labeling, repair, and re-labeling operations.
• Open Loop Recycling Shredding of remaining post-consumer textile articles into fibers supplied to factories producing insulation materials for automotive, construction, carpet, and furniture industries.
• Closed Loop Recycling Mechanical and chemical recycling of post-consumer textiles producing fibers reintroduced into retail partner supply chains for textile-to-textile recycling.
• B2B Transparency Platform Digital trading platform at trading.artus-invest.com providing transparent B2B transactions and supply chain visibility for circular textile operations and global overstock trading.
• Customized Collection Boxes Redesigned, customized collection boxes deployed at retail partner locations to facilitate return of used textiles to the place where they were originally sold.
• Patchwork Tote Bags Upcycled tote bags produced in carbon-neutral facilities, representing the re-make category of Artus Group's Value Hierarchy and replacing single-use plastic bags.

Quantifiable outcome

• 6,112,920 cubic meters water savings through recycled cotton vs virgin cotton
• +3 more outcomes

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• German Red CrosscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArtus Group is currently working with the German Red Cross to modernize the collection process. Through vertically integrated retail partners, Artus Group positively influences the German Red Cross's value chain through direct marketing. Additionally, Artus Group provides infrastructure for retail partners to offer customers on-line or in-store collection services.
• Control Union of SwitzerlandcoreOthersArtus Group holds the international GRS Certificate issued by Control Union of Switzerland, an internationally recognized standard for recycled content, chain of custody, and social and environmental conditions.
• Retail Partners (Fashion Retailers)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerArtus Group provides circular solutions to fashion retailers including take-back systems, customizable collection boxes, grading services, and recycled material supply. They work with vertically integrated retail partners to offer on-line or in-store collection services to end consumers.
• Insulation Material FactoriesminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFor open loop recycling, remaining articles are sorted according to requirements of desired end of life products and shredded into fibers supplied to factories producing insulation material for automotive, construction, carpet, and furniture industries.

Scale indicators11 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Beyond Retro: Vintage and secondhand apparel retailer and grader operating a global used-textile trading and grading network—competes with Artus' re-wear arm for high-grade post-consumer textile supply and downstream re-wear distribution.
• Renewcell (Circulose): Swedish cellulosic textile-to-textile recycler that produces dissolving pulp from worn-out cotton textiles for re-entry into fashion fiber supply chains—the most direct closed-loop competitor to Artus' mechanical-recycling arm, targeting the same fashion-brand customers.
• Re&Up (Kalyon Group): Turkey-based industrial-scale textile-to-textile recycler producing recycled cotton, polyester and nylon yarns from post-consumer textiles; competes with Artus for recycled-fiber supply contracts and benefits from similar vertical-integration economics.
• Worn Again Technologies: UK-based chemical recycler focused on separating polyester and cotton from blended post-consumer textiles, producing dual outputs (PET and cellulosic raw materials) that compete with Artus' recycled-fiber offering for the same fashion-brand recycled-content budgets.
• Recover (Eeden): Spain-headquartered global recycler producing recycled cotton and blended fibers from post-industrial and post-consumer textile waste; competes directly with Artus' mechanical recycling outputs and supplies similarly-positioned fashion brands.
• Reverse Resources: Hong Kong-based B2B digital platform connecting textile waste generators with recyclers—conceptually similar to Artus' trading.artus-invest.com B2B transparency platform, providing digital traceability over post-industrial/post-consumer textile flows.
• Circ: US-based chemical recycler of blended post-consumer textiles into reusable cellulosic and petrochemical feedstocks; competes in the same fiber-to-fiber recycling category and targets overlapping fashion and apparel brand customers seeking certified recycled inputs.
• SOEX Group (incl. I:CO): Germany-based textile collection, sorting and recycling operator using a take-back-system model with retailers—directly comparable to Artus' B2B circular service offering and operating in similar European and global markets.

Broad incumbents

• Vestiaire Collective: Global luxury fashion resale marketplace that gives apparel brands a circular commerce channel—operates at broader scale in a related circular-fashion value chain but competes for brand owner mindshare and circularity investment relative to Artus' textile recycling services.

Emerging players

• Syre (H&M-backed): Recently launched fiber-to-fiber recycling venture backed by H&M and Inditex aimed at producing virgin-quality polyester from textile waste; represents a brand-verticalization threat that could displace Artus' recycled-polyester fiber volumes over time.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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