News
29 May 2024
State of Fashion x NewTexEco symposium ‘Ties That Bind’
Tuesday 21 May 2024 saw the symposium ‘Ties that bind’, a collaboration of NewTexEco, ArtEZ and State of Fashion. We welcomed 160 visitors, a diversity of companies, researchers and students from the fashion and textile industry. Connections between the global North and the global South were central to the programme. Starting with the question: how […]
28 May 2024
Wanted: partners for NWA-ORC project applications
NewTexEco is committed to write project applications for the NWA-ORC Research on Routes by Consortia. In the interest of creating consortia, NWO is organising collaborative workshops for the call. We are still looking for partners for: Smart Industry 5.0: Life-Cycle Living Labs for Complete Ceten Circularity. LLL4CCC focuses on developing robot-driven ecosystems for circular economy […]
27 May 2024
NewTexEco at Munich Creative Business Week
On 14 May 2024, NewTexEco presented at the Munich Creative Business Week (MCBW). The presentation was part of an extensive programme put together by CreativeNL in cooperation with NewTexEco, Modepartners025, Creatief Arnhem and with the cooperation of a number of designers and the Dutch Design Foundation. Titled ‘The design-based approach to co-creating with nature’, the […]
24 May 2024
Textile ETP 2024 annual conference
The 18th annual Textile ETP conference took place in Mechelen, on 14 and 15 May 2024. This is always an important event where members, including industry leaders, experts, researchers and innovators meet and discuss the future of the textile sector. A major topic this year was the launch of the EU Textile Research Partnership Textiles […]
22 May 2024
Jens Oelerich appointed new Professor Sustainable & Functional Textiles at Saxion
We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Jens Oelerich will start as Professor Sustainable & Functional Textiles at Saxion from 01-06-2024. He succeeds Dr. Jan Mahy who will step down as professor in summer 2024. With 15 researchers, the Sustainable & Functional Textiles (SFT) professorship is one of Saxion’s largest professorships and a leader […]
13 May 2024
TEXPOWER project has started
Several consortium members from NewTexEco and Saxion University of Applied Sciences have been awarded a substantial multi-year project called TEXPOWER. In the transition to a circular textile chain, this project aims to develop innovative technologies and demonstrate scalability in closed-loop textile-to-textile recycling.
8 May 2024
The seven themes that guide our research program
Who bears the risk for overproduction? What is the ultimate sustainable material? Is natural always better? On 26 February and 5 March 2024, together with a diversity of practice partners, we brainstormed on the themes and questions most relevant in the transition of the textile sector for the parties within our consortium.
22 February 2024
Data-flow for circular textiles
On 21 February 2024, the Dutch consortium of TEXroad Foundation together with TexPlus Foundation and the Estonian organisations Saku, Lääne-Harju and Humana Estonia met in Zwolle where they shared their experiences in shaping the data flows needed to drive the transition to circular textiles. After the presentation we had an enlightening interactive session. Some of […]
2 February 2024
Circular Textiles Twente programme finalized. Partners continue.
From 2019 to 2023, the TexPlus partners cooperated intensively within the Regio-Deal programme Circular Textiles Twente, co-sponsored by the Twente Board, Province of Overijssel and the State. On 30 January 2024, they presented the results of this programme to around 150 attendees at an informative and interactive final meeting in Enschede. In three workshops, the […]
16 January 2024
Circular Textiles chain breakthrough project
In a new Circular Textiles project, 150 textile entrepreneurs and organisations are working on establishing circular chains. They are doing this by using renewable, sustainable raw materials. This way, they save materials, reduce their CO2 emissions and contribute significantly to an economy in which waste does not exist. Topics include reuse internationally, reuse in the […]
15 November 2023
Partners NewTexeco in the Press
As of September 2023, former minister Ank Bijleveld is the new chair person of the Twente Board. During the Twente Event on 1 November 2023, Ank wore a dress made of recycled textiles, designed and made by Karen Kolkert from Goor. The dress is the result of a collaboration of several TexPlus partners. The fabric […]
23 September 2023
NewTexEco officially launched
Thursday 21 September 2023 saw the official kick-off of this fantastic collective at ArtEZ in Arnhem. This was grandly celebrated by the programme team, the consortium partners, the Executive Boards of the three Universities of Applies Sciences and other interested parties from the network. The cooperation was validated by the Chairs of the three UAS’s […]