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Textile ETP at the Nordic-Baltic Textile Circularity Forum 2026
On 7-8 October 2026, Textile ETP took part in the Nordic-Baltic Textile Circularity Forum 2026 in Riga, Latvia. The two-day forum was organised by tExtended, one Horizon Europe project and one of the founding members of the ECOSYSTEX Community, together with the textile circularity project of the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Offices in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, and it also served as the final showcase of the tExtended results.
Textile ETP presents new Bioeconomy Innovation Strategy at FIZZ Dialogue Forum
On 6 October 2026, Textile ETP Secretary General Lutz Walter recently joined the FIZZ Dialogue Forum on Biobased Fibres in Cologne, to present our Circular & Biobased Textiles Innovation Hub’s newly published Bioeconomy Innovation Strategy for the European Fibres, Textiles, and Apparel Industry.
Preparing the Smart Textile Sector for a Sustainable Future with Practical Learning on EU Regulations
The SusTEX project, formally known as Sustainable Smart Textiles for Industry and Education, has officially launched to help companies and learners navigate the growing number of sustainability requirements shaping the smart textile field. SusTEX's primary objectives are to map the real sustainability challenges of the sector, translate EU regulations into accessible learning content, and connect industry needs with education.
Pre-register Now: The Future of European Technical Textiles in Defence, Protection and Aerospace
Pre-registrations for the SmartX Innovation Hub and EURATEX event on the Future of European Technical Textiles in Defence, Protection and Aerospace, taking place on 19 November 2026 in Brussels and hosted by the Delegation of the Government of Catalonia to the European Union, are now open!
Textile ETP on Tour visits Ghent and Brussels, showing applied research and circular innovation
To provide our members with first-hand insights into cutting-edge research, technologies, and sustainable innovations, we launched ‘Textile ETP on Tour’, an exclusive members-only initiative designed to showcase pioneering developments in textile science and technology. For the sixth edition on 24 September 2026, we visited Ghent and Brussels, in Belgium, a region combining two centuries of industrial textile tradition with world-class research in advanced and sustainable materials.
CISUTAC concludes four-year mission to help Europe's textile sector become circular
After four years of work across the European textile value chain, the CISUTAC project has released its final results, presented on 22 and 23 September at the ECOSYSTEX Conference in Antwerp: a set of tested technologies, open data, consumer research and policy recommendations designed to help the textile and clothing sector move from a linear, waste-generating model to a genuinely circular one.
ECOSYSTEX Conference 2026: Circular Textiles Beyond Recycling
The fourth ECOSYSTEX Conference took place in Antwerp, Belgium, from 22 to 24 September 2026, in partnership with the University of Antwerp. This year's edition was organised in collaboration with six EU-funded projects, CISUTAC, Circula-TEX, SOLSTICE, FABRIX, JUST FASHION and CRAFT-IT4SD, offering a dynamic platform for discussion and experimentation around textile circularity.
Textile ETP launches textile bioeconomy strategy, calling for urgent collective action to anchor biobased and circular value chains in Europe
On 22 September 2026, Textile ETP's Circular & Biobased Textiles Innovation Hub published its strategy for the biobased and circular transformation of Europe's textile and apparel industry. Developed with experts from across the European biotextile value chain, the European Textile Bioeconomy Strategy sets out how Europe can turn around five decades of rising fossil dependencyin its textile material base
SmartX Innovation Hub at Industry Space Days 2026
On 16-17 September 2026, our Senior Manager Smart & Technical Textiles Judith Bosch represented SmartX Innovation Hub at ESA Industry Space Days, at ESA/ESTEC in Noordwijk. The event was also a chance to reconnect with SmartX members and test textile expertise against concrete space-sector needs.
Textile ETP at the Dornbirn Global Fibre Congress 2026
On 16-17 September 2026, our Secretary General Lutz Walter took part in the Dornbirn Global Fibre Congress in Austria, the annual gathering of fibre researchers and innovators from around the world. This year's programme featured more than 100 lectures across three parallel strands over two and a half days. Key themes were circularity, biobased materials, high-performance textiles for protection and defence, digitalisation, and cross-industry innovation between the fibre, pulp and paper sectors.
SmartX Innovation Hub at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics and Cinte Techtextil China
In the past two weeks, our Senior Manager Smart & Technical Textiles Judith Bosch represented Textile ETP and the SmartX Innovation Hub in Shanghai at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics and Cinte Techtextil China, two fairs covering very different but complementary areas of the textile industry. Taken together, the two events showed innovation from two angles: what a material can be engineered to do, and what becomes possible once that material is part of a larger industrial system.
Textile ETP and partners launch MELANGE, a new EU project using design to transform colouration practices in the interior textile industry
Launched today, the new Horizon Europe project MELANGE will transform colouration practices in the European interior textile industry by moving colour design from the end to the beginning of the manufacturing process. As part of a consortium of 9 partners led by Aalto University (Finland), Textile ETP will run the dissemination and stakeholder engagement activities.
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