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Key Research & Technology Trends in Textile Circularity – Focus at RISE
Lisa Bour
Director The Environment and Sustainable Chemistry
RISE — Research Institutes of Sweden
Focus of textile activities at RISE
als through melt blown and solution blown
•New generation textile fibers
•Recycling technologies and appli-
cations for recycled textile
•Collection, sorting and manage-
ment of textile material flows
•Information need in the textile value
chain
•Microfiber mitigation and analysis•Development of fibers with specific functionality, such as electrical conduc-
tivity, piezoelectricity, temperature control, flame resistance, dirt resistance
and antibacterial properties
Circlestretch project
New generation textile fibers
Textile fiber development test bed
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•Solution spinning and wet spinning
of fibers from bio- based raw mate-
rials, such as cellulose, lignin and
proteins
Melt spinning of a wide range of dif-
ferent fiber types, from monocom-
ponent fibers to multi-component
fibers with different cross-sections
and material combinations, such as
fossil or bio-based polyester, nylon
and thermoplastic elastomers•Residual biobased feedstocks will be used as the raw material to produce
the building blocks for the synthesis of cost-efficient biobased PTT
•Development of a sustainable route for chemical recycling of PTT mixed
textile waste.
•Evaluate the economic and technical prerequisites of having PTT in polyes-
ter recycling
Partners:
Development of nonwoven materi-
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