Expertise in Textiles

From advanced wound dressings and implants to functional clothing, agrotextiles, and aquaculture nets. RISE develops functional fiber materials for a wide range of applications. By using advanced encapsulation technology and smart choices of bio-based alternatives, we can enhance the product’s sust…

Textiles are by far the most common material for applications worn close to the body and have the potential to significantly impact well-being and health. To assess or optimize such products in terms of function and comfort, a thorough understanding of relevant properties is of utmost importance.

Are you striving to make complex textiles recyclable, and are exploring polyesterbased solutions? Do you want data on the performance of new designs in actual chemical recycling?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tearing of textile materials is a process in which textiles are recycled by mechanically processing the material. Mechanically recycled textiles are primarily used for insulation, soundproofing, furniture padding, and industrial textiles. When blended with new fibers, they can also be used in cloth…

The textile industry faces major challenges, but also opportunities, to reduce its environmental impact and contribute to a more sustainable society. With the help of life cycle assessment, LCA, aspects such as material selection, improved manufacturing processes, resource efficiency and recycling …

Methods for robust tagging of textile materials, where the tagging contains information on for example materials composition and origin, will be increasingly valuable for improved collection and sorting systems. This is relevant for example for rented workwear as well as for sorting or retrieval of…

Electronic textiles, or e-textiles, is a multidisciplinary research area with applications such as soft and wearable sensors or energy harvesting. RISE can offer research and development ranging from materials selection and fibre development to integration and testing of electronics on textile carr…

Dissolving pulp is an important product used in the manufacture of fiber materials, which are used in the textile industry.

Comfort is a concept that often is associated with a subjective experience, however at RISE we have the means of quantifying a series of physical properties that together contribute to the experienced comfort of a product.

One of the most important quality criteria for coloured textiles is their ability to retain their colour and not to cause dyeing or colour change. Colour change usually means colour loss. Staining, the ability of colour to bleed from one material to another.

RISE offers expertise in melt spinning, supporting innovation from lab to pilot scale. Our work ranges from developing textile fibres from bio-based and recycled polymers to creating high-performance and functional materials. By combining research with industry collaboration, we help partners accel…

Within our expertise in solution spinning, both wet and air-gap (dry-jet wet) spinning, we develop man-made fibers from polymers that are either non-thermoplastic or sensitive to temperature. This method is particularly useful for the production of fibers from bio-based raw materials.

OEKO-TEX® mission is to create trust in textiles and leather, how they are produced through increased product safety, improved sustainable production and a sustainable and transparent value chain.

Nonwovens are versatile and cost-effective materials. We are used to seeing nonwovens in car interiors, surface materials in hygiene products, and in molded furniture, but they are often hidden, such as in sound absorbers in dishwashers, dust covers under box springs, and padding in clothing.