CISUTAC meets in Genoa for General Assembly

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Written By Textile ETP

On 29 and 30 October 2025, the CISUTAC consortium met in Genoa, Italy, for the penultimate General Assembly of the project.

We heard about the advancements about:

  • consumer circular behaviour understanding, and the guidelines developed by Wageningen University & Research to support behavioural change, via repair and donation in Kringwinkel Antwerpen, Oxfam Ireland and Oxfam Belgium.

  • the advanced zipper repair workstation that is now fully opperational at Kringwinkel Antwerpen, the results of this implementation, and what the possibilities beyond CISUTAC are.

  • the sorting workstation at TEXAID that is using AI, RFID tags and NIR to increase sorting capacity and secure value retention, and that integrates all data into the Global Textile Scheme platform creating specific Digital Product Passports.

  • the polyester fibre-to-fibre recycling pilot developed by Centexbel, EREMA and AIMPLAS that includes de-inking, pelletisation, melt spinning and garment prototyping.

  • challenges and opportunities in boosting green public procurement.

  • the Open Data Guide, whose purpose is to enhance understanding of how a DPP containing accurate and relevant data can help transform post-consumer textile waste into a valuable secondary raw material. This guide is designed to support the industry based on current knowledge, originating from research conducted within the CISUTAC project and in collaboration with other EU initiatives and inspired by work done in this field.

As manager of CISUTAC’s communications, dissemination and community-building activities, Textile ETP highlighted the growth of the ECOSYSTEX community, and presented the results of the latest campaigns, offered a sneak peek of upcoming ones, and took the opportunity to begin filming the project’s final video, which is expected to be published in spring 2026.

We thank STAM for organising the meeting and for opening the doors of their facilities, as we also visited their robotic labs

For more information and updates on the CISUTAC project, please visit www.cisutac.eu.

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