Textile industry

ECCP News

Consultation on EU strategy for sustainable textiles

The European Commission has an open public consultation for clusters and SMEs on the environment and sustainability. All citizens and organisations are welcome to contribute to the consultation. In particular, input is welcome from actors along the textile value chain as well as public authorities...
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Inter-cluster collaboration increases competitiveness of Europe's Textile Ecosystem

In the meeting on 18 March, the European Alliance Against Coronavirus spoke with Ariadna Detrell from AEI Tèxtils​ and Bruno Mougin from Techtera about their collaboration in the EU-TEXTILE2030 initiative. EU-TEXTILE2030’s aim is to bring together the main European clusters (UP-tex, AEI TÈXTILS...
Community News

EuroBoosTEX: Communication & Dissemination assessment report

EuroBoosTEX, made up 5 partners from 4 countries, is a European partnership that aims to accelerate the dual green and digital transition of European textile SMEs and boost their international competitiveness. EuroBoostex has a total budget of 1.4 million euros and 1.050 million euros are directly...
Community News

EuroBoosTEX second newsletter is out now! Discover the projects of the winners of the second call

Get the latest insights and opportunities of the project! The project concretely supports companies of the textile industry for European recovery through digital and ecological transition. The main objective of EuroBoosTEX is to connect textile ecosystems across EU regions to strengthen value chains...
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Strengthening services to support European recovery through training for SMEs

Technological innovations and changing customer expectations require new business models and organizational principles in the textile industry. Each cluster of the project has organized a capacity-building webinar as a preparatory activity, responding to the needs of European companies. These...
Community News

EuroBoosTEX first newsletter is out now!

Get the latest insights and opportunities of the project! The project concretely supports companies of the textile industry for European recovery through digital and ecological transition. The main objective of EuroBoosTEX is to connect textile ecosystems across EU regions to strengthen value chains...
Calls

EuroBoosTEX launches its 1st Call- Individual Innovate Boost Grant

EuroBoosTEX launches its 1st Call- Individual Innovate Boost Grant The Eurocluster project EuroBoosTEX open call for innovation services for SMEs will be open until June 7th, 2023 @17.00 CET! EuroBoosTex will enhance SMEs to develop new products or processes with financial support through Individual...
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Euroboostex market study: a useful guide to embrace the European Textile industry twin transition

EuroBoosTEX’s analysis of the textile sector has identified the main trends that will determine the future of the textile industry in the coming years. The textile sector is a very large industry. Therefore, strategies must consider the whole value chain. The sector has undergone a series of major...

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Philippe SANIAL, elected President of TECHTERA, the French Innovation cluster of the textiles sector

At the Board of Directors meeting on July 21, TECHTERA announced the appointment of Philippe Sanial, Technical Director of the CHOMARAT group, as President of the cluster, succeeding Louis Vovelle. Philippe Sanial succeeds Louis Vovelle, Senior Vice President Innovation and R&D at Elkem, who has...

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Textile Circularity & Research Opportunities in the EU Defence Sector.

The webinar Textile Circularity & Research Opportunities in the EU Defence Sector took place on the 15th of June 2022 at 10:30 CEST. The webinar featured presentation of: 1. EDA’s Materials & Structures Captech and Incubation Forum for Circular Economy in European Defence (IF CEED) on “Circularity...

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Meeting invitation to textile clusters and companies: Collaboration with Ukraine

Exploring collaboration opportunities with Ukraine in the textile sector The European Clusters Alliance invites clusters and businesses from the textile ecosystem to a meeting with Ukrainian representatives to explore collaboration opportunities between Ukraine and the European Union. We would like...

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Industrial symbiosis project, "New plastic product made out of waste from the textile industry", completed

New plastic product made out of waste from the textile industry is the title of an industrial symbiosis project carried out in collaboration between members from the Packaging Cluster and AEI Tèxtils. It had the aim of introducing to the market plastic products made of polypropylene recovered from...