Reeco® is not a technology company that discovered textiles. It is a textile industry platform built by someone who spent three decades managing supply chains, verifying certifications, and negotiating with the suppliers whose data now flows through the system.
Stefano Cipriani is the founder of Reeco® and Stefano Cipriani Studio, based in Prato, Italy — Europe's largest textile district and the geographic heart of EU textile manufacturing.
With over 30 years of international textile industry experience, Stefano previously served as European Office Manager for one of Asia's leading linen manufacturers, building a portfolio that included Ralph Lauren, Boden and Inditex — totalling approximately USD 50M in annual revenue.
That experience — verifying GRS certificates, managing multi-supplier chains, negotiating with certification bodies, and understanding exactly where compliance gaps emerge — is the foundation on which Reeco® was designed.
Reeco® was founded in 2024. Stefano also holds patent CN113529235 (Solucell® / COPET hemp fiber process) and serves as Strategic Partner & Collection Director for Kingdom Textile (Shanghai).
CIRPASS-2 is the European Commission's €12.5M consortium (May 2024–April 2027) responsible for running 13 Digital Product Passport lighthouse pilots and providing recommendations for ESPR delegated acts. Reeco® participates as an Expert Member across three working groups.
Monitoring ESPR legislative development, delegated act drafting, and alignment between industry practice and regulatory requirements. Direct input into the policy process shaping mandatory DPP content for textiles.
Textile-specific implementation guidance: data requirements, mass balance methodology, certification verification standards, and per-garment DPP architecture. Reeco®'s core technical domain.
Ensuring DPP data models are interoperable across sectors and supply chain actors. Alignment with GS1 Digital Link, EPCIS, and the EU DPP Registry architecture operative from July 2026.
The European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), Unit B5 in Seville, is the technical body developing the scientific and methodological basis for ESPR product requirements — including durability, repairability and recyclability metrics for textiles.
Reeco® was invited by JRC Unit B5 to submit its textile sustainability indices for review as potential inputs to the EU DPP methodology for garments. The three indices — developed and published by Stefano Cipriani — are currently under evaluation.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19206499 →Computed from Martindale abrasion, pilling resistance, tensile strength and dimensional stability tests. Automatically populated from supplier lab reports uploaded to the Reeco® portal.
Assesses ease of repair based on seam construction, material joinability, component separability and spare parts availability. Written into the DPP as a measured score.
Evaluates material composition for end-of-life recyclability: mono-material vs. blends, presence of non-recyclable components, fibre length preservation, sorting compatibility.