Sustainable textile

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EuroBoosTEX: Communication & Dissemination assessment report

EuroBoosTEX, made up 5 partners from 4 countries, is a European partnership that aims to accelerate the dual green and digital transition of European textile SMEs and boost their international competitiveness. EuroBoostex has a total budget of 1.4 million euros and 1.050 million euros are directly...
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EuroBoosTEX second newsletter is out now! Discover the projects of the winners of the second call

Get the latest insights and opportunities of the project! The project concretely supports companies of the textile industry for European recovery through digital and ecological transition. The main objective of EuroBoosTEX is to connect textile ecosystems across EU regions to strengthen value chains...
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Strengthening services to support European recovery through training for SMEs

Technological innovations and changing customer expectations require new business models and organizational principles in the textile industry. Each cluster of the project has organized a capacity-building webinar as a preparatory activity, responding to the needs of European companies. These...
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EuroBoosTEX first newsletter is out now!

Get the latest insights and opportunities of the project! The project concretely supports companies of the textile industry for European recovery through digital and ecological transition. The main objective of EuroBoosTEX is to connect textile ecosystems across EU regions to strengthen value chains...
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Join the ReSet the Trend - #ReFashionNow Campaign

On behalf of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for the Environment, we would like to invite clusters and their members operating within the textile ecosystem to join the campaign on sustainable textiles and fashion titled ReSet the Trend – #ReFashionNow. This campaign has been launched...
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EuroBoosTEX, accelerating the digital and ecological transition in the textile industry

EuroBoosTEX is a European partnership that aims to accelerate the dual green and digital transition of European textile SMEs and boost their international competitiveness. EuroBoosTEX Joint European initiative in support of the textile industry for European recovery through digital and ecological...

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Financing for industrial hemp innovators in Horizon Europe and CBE-JU

The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) is a €2 billion partnership between the European Union and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) that funds projects advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe. The partnership is building on the success of its...
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Close the Loop - Guide for a circular fashion industry

Close the Loop is a tool that guides fashion entrepreneurs through the basics of a more sustainable and circular way of working. For each phase of a fashion product lifecycle (resources, design, production, retail, consumption, end of life), the tool formulates five resource-efficient strategies...
Best practices

Enzymes for finishing cotton fabrics

Resource-friendly fabric finish Biopolishing is a textile finishing process using cellulase enzymes to modify the surface of cotton fabrics. Pilling (lint balls on the fabric) is reduced, colour retention is improved and stronger, longer-lasting fabrics are produced. Processing times can be...
Best practices

Reducing microfibres in textile sector wastewater

Watershed moment for microfibres Microfibres shed by synthetic textiles during washing are currently in the spotlight, especially their impact on aquatic ecosystems. Researchers are investigating this problem and how to prevent fibres from escaping into the environment.[1] In municipal water...
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Enzymatic treatments in textile wet processing

The wet processing of textiles is energy and water intensive, as well as requiring the use of numerous chemicals. Wet processing steps, depending on the textile product, can include sizing, desizing, scouring, bleaching, mercerisation, printing, and finishing. Many of these steps require high...
Best practices

Improving fabric use in clothing production

Fabric utilisation depends directly on marker efficiency. Markers are usually paper consumables showing the outlines of the pattern for making cutting and making clothes. CAD design tools are usually used to calculate how best to arrange the pattern components on the fabric layer but in small-scale...