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The textiles industry has a significant environmental impact and sustainability and circularity are crucial. The industry is undergoing rapid change due to stricter legal requirements and demand for recyclable, resource-efficient materials.

RISE provides innovative solutions to support the textile industry's transition, from research ideas to sustainable and competitive products. With our cutting-edge expertise, advanced testing and demonstration environments, and technical infrastructure, we support every stage of the value chain, including strategy, material selection, design, material development, testing, certification and textile recycling.

We actively participate in EU legislative work through initiatives such as the ETP (European Technology Platform for the Future of Textiles and Clothing), as well as projects like CIRPASS and CISUTAC. These initiatives are driving the development of digital product passports and circular textile flows in line with the upcoming Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

Lisa Bour

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Innovation support for a sustainable textile value chain

The industry is changing fast due to stricter regulations and rising demand for recyclable, resource-efficient materials. RISE supports creating sustainable textiles, from fibre to product, through innovation, testing and certification.

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Service areas for sustainable textile innovation
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Crafting a circular textile strategy

The textile industry is facing demands to reduce environmental impact and adopt circular business models, whilst maintaining profitability. Do you need support in transforming your textile operations to meet future requirements for circularity and sustainability? We will help you craft a strategy.
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Circular textile design & material

Decisions made during the design and product development phase determine whether a textile product can be part of a circular value chain. The challenges are many: complex fiber blends hinder recycling, additives can prevent biodegradation, and design can make disassembly or repair more difficult.
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Developing textile fibers & material

RISE offers research-based innovation support for companies and organisations driving the textile transition. With expert support throughout the entire development process, from concept to certified product, conditions are created for sustainable, circular, and high-performance textile materials.
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Textile test, analysis and certification

In the textile industry, testing, certification and analysis are crucial to ensure product quality and compliance with legal requirements. Compliance can become both complex and costly. Limited testing capacity and growing sustainability requirements further increase this challenge
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Recycling of textile materials

The textile industry is facing increasing pressure to recycle textile waste, comply with stricter EU regulations and remain competitive. Achieving this requires profitable and sustainable solutions, with material recycling as a central element of future business models.
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Making the textile industry more transparent and sustainable

This is revolutionary legislation for a textile industry that needs to become more sustainable. This is how Lisa Bour, department manager at RISE, describes the ESPR (Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulations).

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Expertise in Textiles
From bio-based fibres to microplastic analysis, chemical management to life cycle analysis, RISE textile experts work at the intersection of material knowledge and sustainability requirements. We actively participate in EU legislative work, so we know what is coming.
Case study

Swedish textile fibre with sights on the world market

TreeToTextile has developed a new cellulose-based textile fibre – durable, inexpensive, with potential to reduce the textile industry's carbon footprint. RISE has supported the journey from idea to demonstration plant.

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Projects in Textiles
From recycled fibres of maintained quality to digital product passports that work in practice and reduced microplastic emissions, RISE runs projects that solve the textile industry's most pressing challenges.
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RE:MIX III Chemical recycling of textile

Each year the average Swedish citizen throws 7.5 kg of textile in the trash, textiles which are then incinerated. The value of 80 000 tons of textile is hence lost, every year. In the project Re:MIX III, RISE and COWI will develop a new method to utilize this lost resource.
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Cisutac

Increasing Circularity and Sustainability for Textiles and Clothing in Europe!
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RegioGreenTex

In the framework of the European Green Deal, RegioGreenTex is a project promoting the collaboration in research and development for the textile industry to establish a systematic circular economy business model across the EU.
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tExtended

The accumulation of textile waste is a global challenge that requires efficient recycling solutions, as it is estimated that less than 1% of textile waste is currently being recycled as a secondary textile raw material. tExtended aims to introduce an innovative approach to the cycling of discarded …

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Comprehensive support throughout the value chain

– from sustainability strategy and material selection to fibre development, testing and recycling in one place
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Test and demo environments

– advanced infrastructure for developing, verifying and scaling up solutions under realistic conditions
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Regulatory navigation and sustainability analysis

– support in interpreting ESPR requirements and making fact-based decisions through LCA and EPD
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Tailor-made collaborations

– from specific services to long-term partnerships and support with research applications in EU and national programmes

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Materials and durability

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Circular transition

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Manufacturing and production conversion

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Chemical products and processes

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Design

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