Driving Policy and Innovation for a Safe & Sustainable Textile Future
The textile value chain encompasses various materials, end-users, and applications. Despite a growing focus on sustainability, progress remains slow, necessitating innovative technologies to tackle challenges such as low recycling rates and chemical pollutants. With this in mind, the EU-funded BioSusTex project aims to pioneer key technologies to enhance the sustainability of the textile value chain. These efforts include optimising recycling of cellulosic fibres, developing sustainable pre-processing techniques, creating bio-based water-repellent coatings, and providing analytical methods and prediction tools for toxicity assessment. These initiatives are in line with the Safe and Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) framework, designed to promote sustainable innovation within the textile industry.
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The textile industry faces significant challenges with an urgent need for sustainable practices and solutions.
The EU-funded BioSusTex project aims to drive policy change and develop pioneering technologies and tools for a greener textile value chain.
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Aligned with the Safe and Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) framework
TECHNOLOGIES
Our goal is to advance sustainable innovation for cotton and cellulosic textiles, addressing recycling inefficiencies and harmful chemicals with cutting-edge technologies tailored to industry needs:
MISSION
Optimized Recycling
Advanced processes for cellulosic fiber recycling into dope-dyed textiles.
Sustainable Pre-Processing
Effective removal of elastane, dyes and impurities from blended textiles without toxic byproducts.
PFAS-Free coatings
Bio-based, water-repellent solutions using innovative surfactant technology.
Eco-Friendly Prints
Removable, PVC-free, bio-based printing formulations.
TOOLS
The green transition also requires safety and sustainability assessments on a scientific basis. We will contribute to advancing the toolbox with:
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Toxicity assessments - novel methods and predictive tools.
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Smart Decision Support - software based on the Safe and Sustainable-by-Design (SSbD) framework.
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Comprehensive Data Hub - to drive systemic sustainable innovation across the textile value chain.
FACTS & FIGURES
4 years
13 partners
7 countries
CONSORTIUM
Coordinator
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
Aalto University - School of Chemical Engineering
GreenDecision
Texia
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Vividye
Blåbær
IVL
MoRE
Stockholm University
Chalmers University of Technology
Sun Tekstil
Bee Granted
Advisory Board
Valvan Baling Systems NV
TEXAID
Mario de Cecco
Kemira
RIVM