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Dive into cutting-edge innovations with our Circular & Biobased Textiles Innovation Hub! Explore the 5️⃣ innovation themes shaping our online formats: 🌿 Biobased Materials & Processes: Discover new biobased fibres and their applications. Learn essential facts for processing innovative biobased fibres. ♻️ Circularity/Recycling: Explore the latest in recycling technologies and their technical state-of-the-art. Uncover the availability, properties, limitations, and advancements of recycled materials. 🌱 Ecodesign: Delve into eco-design requirements and best practices for textiles and clothing. Master designing for durability, repairability, recyclability, and biodegradability. 🧪 Sustainable Chemistry: Explore alternatives to hazardous chemicals in processing and functionalisation chemicals. Learn how to minimise emissions of chemicals and microplastics throughout a textile product's lifecycle. 🌍 Sustainable Supply Chain: Optimise your supply chain for environmental, social, health, and safety requirements. Understand necessary data, standards, and certificates for textile sustainability management. Excitingly, our program evolves based on your input! Shape the discussion by suggesting topics, fostering flexibility in addressing emerging challenges, research developments, and innovations. Join us in advancing textile sustainability⬇ https://lnkd.in/e7-u2rpC

Dive into cutting-edge insights at the Circular & Biobased Textiles Innovation Hub! Explore the five innovation themes shaping our online formats: 🌿 Biobased Materials & Processes: Discover new biobased fibres and their applications. Learn essential facts for processing innovative biobased fibres. ♻️ Circularity/Recycling: Explore the latest in recycling technologies and their technical state-of-the-art. Uncover the availability, properties, limitations, and advancements of recycled materials. 🌱 Ecodesign: Delve into eco-design requirements and best practices for textiles and clothing. Master designing for durability, repairability, recyclability, and biodegradability. 🧪 Sustainable Chemistry: Explore alternatives to hazardous chemicals in processing and functionalisation chemicals. Learn how to minimize emissions of chemicals and microplastics throughout a textile product's lifecycle. 🌍 Sustainable Supply Chain: Optimise your supply chain for environmental, social, health, and safety requirements. Understand necessary data, standards, and certificates for textile sustainability management. Excitingly, our program evolves based on your input! Shape the discussion by suggesting topics, fostering flexibility in addressing emerging challenges, research developments, and innovations. Join us in advancing textile sustainability! ⬇ https://lnkd.in/e7-u2rpC

Looking forward to the start of the activities of the Circular & Biobased Textiles Innovation Hub in February? 🚀 Wait no more, and explore the five innovation themes shaping our online formats: 🌿 Biobased Materials & Processes: Discover new biobased fibres and their applications. Learn essential facts for processing innovative biobased fibres. ♻️ Circularity/Recycling: Explore the latest in recycling technologies and their technical state-of-the-art. Uncover the availability, properties, limitations, and advancements of recycled materials. 🌱 Ecodesign: Delve into eco-design requirements and best practices for textiles and clothing. Master designing for durability, repairability, recyclability, and biodegradability. 🧪 Sustainable Chemistry: Explore alternatives to hazardous chemicals in processing and functionalisation chemicals. Learn how to minimize emissions of chemicals and microplastics throughout a textile product's lifecycle. 🌍 Sustainable Supply Chain: Optimise your supply chain for environmental, social, health, and safety requirements. Understand necessary data, standards, and certificates for textile sustainability management. Excitingly, our program evolves based on your input! Shape the discussion by suggesting topics, fostering flexibility in addressing emerging challenges, research developments, and innovations. Join us in advancing textile sustainability! ⬇  https://lnkd.in/e7-u2rpC

Excited to share that I have participated in a fascinating online seminar on “Sustainable Design of Textiles and Recycling in the Textile Industry” as part of the EU-funded Butexcomp project! 🇪🇺🇹🇷 The textile industry needs a transformative revolution by exploring alternative resources and transitioning towards a circular economy to minimize waste and promote sustainability. Did you know❓️ 🔸️ 60% of all new clothing materials are plastics! This translates to significant plastic pollution, with textile production contributing 42 million tons of plastic waste annually. 🔸️ Only 1% of clothes get recycled into new garments! The above statistics highlight the existing recycling gap and the need for alternatives to reduce the negative emission of clothing. ✔️ #EcoDesign & #TEN_Strategies: Many brands are exploring Eco-design principles and the TEN strategies by Earley & Politowics to reduce their environmental footprint. ✔️ #Nature's #Inspiration: Biomimicry offers exciting possibilities! Think Tyla's stunning #Met_Gala_2024 sand sculpture dress made of sand and micro-crystals. On the other hand, it was pointed out that the #circular_economy is more than recycling. The second part of the seminar delved into circularity in fashion, different innovative approaches for sorting textile waste for #reuse & #recycling, automated sorting of textile waste, separating non-textile components and the three main recycling technologies for textile waste. Big thanks to @Manisha Marival and Johannes Leis for this insightful seminar! #Sustainablefashion #Textiles #Circulareconomy #Innovation #BUTEXCOMP Sabancı University IMC - Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center

ETP: Facilitating Textile Sustainability in Europe Sustainability is a practical and a very much alive idea across Europe. There are since some years back, several collaborative innovation networks across Europe, facilitating the successful transition into sustainability and a circular economy. Here you can read more about some of the innovative projects. Read more:  https://lnkd.in/duczdTvb

🚀ACHEMA 2024: What were the highlights? True to myself, I am fashionably late once again reporting on Sustainability news, but at least this one makes up with a lot of interesting innovations to cover! During ACHEMA, held in Frankfurt last June, start-ups showcased in the field sustainable textile dyes, alternatives to microplastics, innovative recycling technologies, and AI-supported applications, placing sustainable chemistry in the front of everyone's minds again! The main aim of these innovations are towards waste reduction, emission lowering, and alignment to ever tightening sustainability standards. ACHEMA 2024 helped these industries get visibility on a global stage. Here are a few examples! 🎻 Vienna Textile Lab Developing biodegradable dyes and pigments from microorganisms, partnering with fashion brands and textile mills to drive sustainable manufacturing. 🥤 BIOWEG Creating bio-based, 100% biodegradable alternatives to fossil chemicals, replacing microplastics with high-quality functional ingredients. 🍼 Mavisol Utilizing AI-powered quality monitoring for PET packaging production, enabling the wider use of recycled PET without compromising quality. ♻ Plastale Presenting solutions for the circular economy, co-exhibiting at the ISC3 booth to connect with global investors and stakeholders. 🌳 Banyan Nation Providing innovative recycling technologies that support a circular economy, showcased at the Innovation Stage. Other innovative start-ups like Energy Robotics GmbH, Coac GmbH, Nextmol, Blueplasma Power, ETB Technologies, FRE Technologies, AllocNow, UniteLabs, and Exomatter also joined in the fray and presented groundbreaking ideas, further advancing sustainable chemistry. Have a look at the article for more insights! #Sutainablewednesday

In our quest for a sustainability industry, we always seem to turn to innovation. From lab-grown leather to mushroom-based textiles, scientists and designers push boundaries. But here’s a thought : the more we innovate, the more we feed the cycle of consumption. New materials mean new products, and consumers always want what's new and trendy, there is no law that says if you have a new fibre you have to get rid of one, max 10 only, so hello mushroom fibre, off you go acrylic, your time is done, there is a lot of talk of reduction in consumption but in reality we are just increasing options and consumption.

Definitions, standards and specific industry knowledge…Uster Technologies covers the whole story of recycled textile materials in its application report Sustainability Bulletin No. 1. The publication is part of Uster’s commitment to support the use of recycled materials along the entire textile value chain. Many consumers today already expect recycled materials to be used in the clothing and home textiles they purchase – and this is clearly pushing innovation throughout the industry. However, there is a degree of uncertainty about what this trend means for yarn producers, both economically and technically. The first Uster Sustainability Bulletin outlines the challenges and presents the solutions. 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞: https://lnkd.in/eb8m-Fdt #textile #technology

Do you know the concept of textile bioeconomy? This July 10th, the BE@t Day event is taking place on the premises of CITEVE, talking about such an important topic: the textile bioeconomy, and Allcost, of course, couldn't misThis July 10th, the BE@t Day event is taking place on the premises of CITEVE, talking about such an important topic: the textile bioeconomy, and Allcost, of course, couldn't miss out. 🙂✅ Textile bioeconomy refers to the application of bioeconomy principles in the production and management of textile products, with the use of bio-based, renewable and sustainable raw materials. In the context of the BE@T project, the textile bioeconomy is an integral approach that aims to integrate innovative, sustainable and circular processes in the Textile and Fashion Industry, promoting economically viable and environmentally responsible practices. This ambitious project, with a robust consortium of 56 partners, including companies and research centers, seeks to develop traceable textile products of biological origin, investing in renewable and local raw materials, such as forests and agro-industrial waste, among others. BE@T not only promotes the culture of sustainability and responsible consumption, but one of its main objectives is to foster cooperation to reindustrialize Europe and increase the safety and traceability of textile products. Among the event's activities, in addition to the conference with experts on the topic of textile bioeconomy, there will be a series of conversations, sharing of opinions and debates, in addition to the exhibition of the fashion show with pieces held at the iTechStyle Green Circle, where Allcost is always present, collaborating while striving to promote through the development of new products and processes that a new sustainable textile paradigm is viable and beneficial for all. Join us on this journey towards a greener and more responsible future. 🌍🍃 www.allcost.pt 👉 Read more about the project: https://lnkd.in/epb68zvh #allcost #sustainability #innovation #textileindustry #economiacircular #ecodesign #ecoconscious #beatproject #futuroverde #consumoresponsavel #citeve #greencircle #itechstyle

📣 Why is material innovation vital for the textile industry to achieve greater sustainability? 🔵 The textile industry is a large contributor to water pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and landfill. 👕 With people buying more clothes than ever, these negative impacts will continue to increase. ⬇️ In fact: 🔹 Oil consumption related to textiles is predicted to double in the next decade (Bartl and Ipsmiller, 2023). 🔹 The industry’s share of the carbon budget will increase from 2% in 2015 to 26% by 2050 (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, 2017). 🔄 Although creating circularity in the industry is important, this does not solve the host of environmental issues caused by the creation and use of synthetic materials. 🏭 Synthetic fibres are oil-derived, have high emissions, and cause microplastic pollution. 🧵 Since synthetic fibres represent around two-thirds of textiles, it is important that the sector starts to address these issues. 🔁 However, using natural alternatives instead is not a viable solution, as they have lower performance qualities and are difficult to scale to industrial production. 🟦 Solena Materials are developing the next generation of sustainable textiles for market-leading apparel. 🔬 Our deep learning models design new-to-world proteins from scratch to develop fibres that are high-performance, non-oil derived and biodegradable. ⏩ Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/eGzvxNmN Video filmed during James MacDonald's session at Biofabricate 2024. #SustainableFashion #SustainableTextiles