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Miguel Sanchis Sebastiá, CEO of ShareTex and Ola Wallberg, Professor at Lund University, unpack research and innovation within circular textiles sector, explaining the role of recycling technologies in a larger strategy.

Angela Ivanova, CEO & Co-Founder, explains how her firm LAM’ON solves recycling challenges. A shift to sustainable polymers will reduce the environmental footprint of non-degradable packaging materials; we discover.

Principal Scientist Ulla Forsström from the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd tells us about the INN-PRESSME Open Innovation Test Bed project, which aims to develop novel, sustainable and recyclable bio-based solutions to replace fossil-based plastic.

Katarzyna Pokwicka-Croucher, Founder and CEO of Ecopolplast, tells us about the company’s mission to innovate polymers through their eco-friendly Ecoplastomer® product, made with 100% recycled content that reduces CO2 emissions and ensures complete independence from virgin raw materials.

Due to the inevitable variability of the end-of-life input material, the resulting recycled fibre and nonwoven or woven material will have a higher degree of variability than virgin material. To make sure such recycled fabric is usable for high-quality applications, additional methods for quality control are required.

Uncured carbon fibre recycling by Bulk Moulding Compound (BMC).

To address waste generated during production, a processing route for uncurde material is developed in MC4. Multilayer fresh prepreg scrap is processed to obtain new intermediate products that can be used to manufacture new parts.

The MC4 European research project aims to develop economically and technically feasible technologies for recycling fibre-reinforced composite parts.