The need for adjustment and the choices forced by the current health emergency can join with Circular Economy policies and concrete cases of industrial symbiosis.
ENTeR Project - An example of Circular Economy developed thanks to the ENTeR project. Circular Economy can be created, not only by recovering waste and rethinking it in terms of new (second) raw materials, but also by increasing the average life of products. The ENTeR - Expert Network on Textile Recycling project aims to strengthen [...]
How can you prove that you have taken a step towards the environment? But first, how to do it without running into the infamous greenwashing? Without any doubt, many certifications are available to companies for this purpose. However, if the company wants to demonstrate its own peculiarity, which has not yet found its own reference [...]
OEKO-TEX®, a worldwide association of 18 independent research and test institutes (Centrocot is the only institute authorized for Italy), sets standards for safer textile and leather production and products, is participating with the MADE IN GREEN label in Amazon’s Climate Pledge Friendly, a new program to make it easier for customers to discover and shop [...]
The measure is part of the European project C-Voucher, funded by the Horizon 2020 Programme, which through a series of calls intends to allocate funds to those SMEs interested in achieving the transition from the linear to the circular economy. The next deadline is planned on 30th of October and only 24 European SMEs can [...]
The final conference of the ENTeR project will be held on November10th at 10.00 am, to sum up the results achieved and to share the challenges faced, also in the post-COVID-19 economy, with the ultimate goal of moving closer and closer to a circular and sustainable economic model. The Textile and Clothing sector is an [...]
With the spread of Covid-19, several international organizations such as WHO (World Health Organization) and CDC (Center for Disease Control) have suggested the use of face masks to stem the current pandemic. This has led to an increase in their demand on the entire global market which, in the first quarter of 2020, exceeded a [...]
Inside the C-TEX project is starting a phase dedicated to the development of a method to sort wasted clothes. The aim is to demonstrate the effectiveness of a method based on NIR technology to overcome some obstacles for efficient forms of recycling. The project Circular Textiles, C-TEX, co-funded by the Lombardy Region, aims to improve [...]
Sustainable circular economy in every aspect: how to remove finishing chemicals from acrylic textiles safely and efficiently? The REACT project, funded by the H2020 program, presents the preliminary results of the research at the online conference on October 29th. For years Centrocot has dedicated particular attention to the theme of the Circular Economy and to [...]
In order to make the various industrial supply chains more circular, in particular the automotive sector, it is necessary to make information on materials accessible, particularly when they reach the end of their use. This makes it possible to promote involvement in other applications, where residual characteristics can be very useful. In order to do [...]
Centrocot hosted virtually the third Transnational Meeting of the European training project SAMANTHA, where the production of materials for e-learning courses on 3D printing was officially started. In recent weeks the third Transnational Meeting of the SAMANTHA project was held. Due to the COVID-19 emergency, the partners met virtually to discuss and define the next [...]
In response to the difficulty of training in presence at this historic moment, Centrocot has decided to embrace the distance learning methodology and launch webinars to easily reach technicians and companies in the Textile Sector and release ``OpenBadge``. We have all experienced the need to reorganise our daily lives because of the pandemic. Centrocot has [...]
The new free IFTS Textile Innovation & New Materials course is starting: an opportunity for young unemployed people. In addition, this year it contains the current topics of medical textiles, antibacterial and PPE, and the possibility to attend the course of ZDHC Chemical Management in the Textile Industry with access to the relevant certification. In [...]
Continua presso Centrocot l’offerta formativa specialistica in fascia serale. The course "THE QUALITATIVE CONTROL OF THE TEXTILE PRODUCT", now in its second edition, is planned: Thursday 12,19, November 26 and Thursday 3,10,17 December from 18.30 to 21.00, at the headquarters of Centrocot (P.zza S.Anna n. 2 - Busto Arsizio). The formative activity, of the total [...]
On September 22nd, 2020, the Pre-Shipment Compliance Verification Program (PVC) entered into force for goods destined for Haiti with the objective of guaranteeing the quality of the products as well as the protection of the health, safety and environment of Haiti's consumers. The purpose of the new program is to verify the conformity of products [...]
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