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Biobased textiles are gaining ground
The textile industry is at a turning point. While global demand for fibres continues to rise,…
Emmen expands testing facility for sustainable plastics
Over the next three years, Senbis in Emmen, the Netherlands, will be investing €5.5 million through…
Northern Netherlands: focus on circular polymers
A world without plastics is inconceivable. Over the past 70 years, synthetic polymers have found their…
Cooperation: the foundation for success
Limburg has always been an outward-looking province, with intensive border traffic. No wonder: no other Dutch…
100% biobased textile not a matter of course
Wool, linen, cotton: the textile industry has traditionally used natural materials. And yet precisely this industry…
Cross-border cooperation in biobased materials
Imagine you could get tobacco plants to make elastin-like proteins with the properties of spider silk.…
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EU paving the way for a more sustainable textile sector
The textile industry, frequently criticised for its "fast fashion" practices and vast waste mountains, stands on…
NILIT & BASF create biobased polyamide from waste
Chemical company BASF is collaborating with NILIT®, a producer of polyamide 6.6 for the textile industry,…
Senbis takes new melt-spinning pilot plant in operation
Senbis Polymer Innovations B.V. in Emmen, the Netherlands, has taken a new flexible pilot plant for…
BioFashionTech seeks partners to close the loop
Start-up BioFashionTech from the Northern Netherlands has developed a novel, scalable biotechnology process to upcycle pre-…
Fashion colouring with bacteria
Efforts are being made on several fronts to make the textile industry more sustainable, including the…
Vegan Dress made from cocoa beans
Magnum ice cream, iconic fashion designer Iris Van Herpen and model Cindy Bruna showed the very…
