In the direction of the attending EU policy makers, Paolo Canonico added, “industry incentives and support programmes are an excellent way to accompany and accelerate the necessary change as they kill two birds with one stone, improving sustainability and competitiveness.”
Apart from making use of currently available EU support programmes, the European Textile Technology Platform also recently launched two Flagship Initiatives to develop and implement longer term strategic action plans in the field of:
The international conference “Innovation for textile resource efficiency – energy, water & materials” took place on 22 November in Brussels. It #
(1) Innovative raw material approaches for the EU textile and clothing industry favouring recycling and sustainable raw material supplies from European sources
(2) Technology development and demonstration projects to turn major wet textile processes into dry and energy-efficient processes
The outcome of these two initiatives should also help to better position the sector for participation in upcoming EU programmes such as HORIZON 2020 and help making contributions to major cross-sectoral initiatives at European level such as SPIRE, a public-private partnership (PPP) for a Sustainable Process Industry through Energy and Resource Efficiency, Biobased for Growth, a PPP for the biobased industries and the European Innovation Partnership on Water, all of which were presented at the conference.
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