In 2020, the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) and the H&M Foundation committed to a five-year collaboration plan under the theme "Planet First" to further drive the sustainable developments for the textile and fashion industry. The Open Lab is one of the initiatives of "Planet First", it does not only support the industry to be more planet positive, but also to facilitate industry collaborations to scale solutions and impact.

We invite collaborations with partners having the same ambitions.

We dedicate in inventing and designing the solutions.

We strive to implement these solutions broadly and as quickly as possible.

We also encourage more ideas and solutions towards the same goals.