Sustainable textile strategy development
A circular textile strategy is a plan for how a company can reduce its environmental impact and comply with new EU requirements while maintaining profitability – through circular business models, smarter material choices, and enhanced traceability. RISE helps you develop such a strategy and turn it into practical action.
We identify your sustainability challenges, define measurable goals, and create a practical roadmap. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is integrated early in the process to support data-driven decision-making and increase transparency.
Our support covers environmental, social, and economic sustainability aspects, ensuring that sustainability becomes an integral part of your business rather than an add-on. Following the strategic phase, the collaboration can continue with hands-on textile innovation, where our technical infrastructure enables development, testing, and validation.
Our approach to strategy development
- Current state
We map barriers, analyse the current situation and future goals, and help you prioritise the most relevant sustainability aspects. - Future business
Together we define relevant goals, identify actions and develop a concrete roadmap that strengthens both sustainability and profitability. - Deep dive
We explore a specific area in depth that is particularly relevant for you, such as climate impact, resource efficiency or circularity, and support measurement, reporting and communication.
Strategic services for circular textiles
- Strategic advisory for circular transition
- Innovation strategies with a sustainability focus
- Support in design for circularity and recycling solutions
- LCA and environmental performance analysis
- EPD development and adaptation to ESPR
We protect your innovations through proper management of intellectual property and clear confidentiality agreements (NDAs).
Tailored collaborations for textile innovation
RISE offers both specific services and long-term partnerships to support companies in the transition to sustainable and circular textile products. Whether you need testing, certification, analysis, or a broader collaboration throughout the entire development journey, we tailor our support to your needs.
We also support research applications and collaborative projects, including assistance with formulating and applying for EU-funded research and innovation projects, as well as advisory services for applications within national funding programmes.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What does a circular strategy mean for a textile company?
A circular strategy aims to keep products, materials and resources in use for as long as possible while maintaining their value through reuse, remanufacturing and recycling. For textile companies, this can include designing products for longer lifetimes, using recycled or bio-based materials, developing circular business models, and creating systems for collection and recycling of textiles.
How do you develop a sustainable strategy for textile products?
The process often begins with a baseline analysis where a company’s material flows, climate impact and resource use are mapped. Based on this analysis, priority areas and concrete actions are identified, such as design for circularity, more resource-efficient processes or new business models. A roadmap is then developed that links sustainability goals to the company’s business strategy.
What business opportunities exist within circular textiles and textile recycling?
The circular transition creates new opportunities across the textile value chain. These may include developing recycled fibres and materials, technologies for sorting and recycling, services for reuse and repair, or new circular business models. Increasing regulation and market demand are also driving the need for solutions that enable more circular textile flows.
How can companies measure the climate impact of textile products?
Climate impact can be analysed using methods such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), which evaluates emissions from raw materials, production, transport, use and end-of-life. By identifying where the largest emissions occur, companies can prioritise actions that have the greatest impact, such as material choices, energy-efficient production or more circular material flows.
Which sustainability areas are most important for the textile industry?
Key areas typically include climate impact, resource efficiency, chemical management and circularity in material flows. For many companies, traceability, digital product passports and compliance with new EU regulations are also becoming increasingly important. The priority areas depend on the company’s business model, products and value chain.
How will new EU regulations affect textile companies?
The EU is introducing several new regulations affecting the textile industry, including requirements related to sustainable product design, digital product passports and extended producer responsibility. These regulations aim to increase transparency, improve material circularity and reduce the environmental impact of textile products. For companies, this creates both new requirements and new opportunities to develop more sustainable products and business models.
How can companies turn sustainability goals into concrete actions?
To translate strategy into practice, companies need a clear roadmap with prioritised activities, responsibilities and follow-up mechanisms. This may include developing new material solutions, designing products for recycling, improving resource efficiency in production or implementing methods to measure and report sustainability performance. A structured approach helps turn sustainability strategy into a driver for innovation and competitiveness.
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