Live Webinar: Meaningful recycling of old clothes

Free live webinar
„Meaningful recycling of old clothes - Sustainable textiles for the automotive industry”
10 September 2020

The piles of old clothes that end up in the garbage, used or even unworn, are growing steadily.
So-called "post-consumer textiles" can currently only be processed into low-quality nonwovens. The largest parts of textiles are burned. This means that valuable resources are being wasted.

The problem: clothes often consist of blends of natural and synthetic fibers. To fully recycle them is hardly possible, so far.

The solution: The webinar will give you insights into a research project by imat-uve and a German-Dutch project consortium. The partners are successfully developing a new process to mechanically recycle clothing made of mixed fibers without the use of chemicals.  

The webinar gives answer to these questions:

• How mixed fiber recycling works in practice
• What kind of yarns and fabrics could be developed
• How the process is applicable for the production of textiles in the automotive and other industries

Who should attend?

• Managers, engineers and employees in the field of textile development, production and processing
• All interested parties from the textile and automotive industry as well as related companies

Date: 10 September 2020
Time: 11.00 - 12.00 CEST
Speaker: Laura Kunze (Project Management Innovative Material Development)
                  Michael Wolf (Design & Development Engineer)