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On September 16, REACT took the stage of the renown Global Fiber Congress in Dornbirn, Austria. The event, hosted at the…
REACT has been featured on the 2022 summer issue of EU Research, a UK-based scientific magazine with a long track record…
From 21 to 24 June, REACT featured at this year’s edition of Techtextil: the leading international trade fair for technical textiles…
The Third REACT Prototype unveiled at Salone Mobile Milano 2022
Project partner Parà‘s latest prototype – featuring recycled acrylic textile obtained through REACT’s process – was presented at the leading Italian…
REACT returns to Proposte Fair with new prototypes
REACT partner Parà presented a follow-up to the chair prototype showcased during the event’s 2021 edition: A beach umbrella, cushions and…
New EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles Unveiled: the game changer for textile industry and consumers
The European Commission has just unveiled a package of European Green Deal proposals to foster the sustainability of consumer products, focusing…
EU Green Week 2022 puts the spotlight on circular economy, zero pollution, and biodiversity
EU Green Week is the yearly event organised by the European Commission to discuss the latest advancements in the field of…
European SMEs feedback requested on chemicals sustainability towards a toxic-free environment
The European Commission is currently revising the Regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) and calls European SMEs…
REACT INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS BECOME POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS
At REACT, we believe that strong synergies and wide dissemination are crucial steps to concert innovative results into impactful solutions. This…
REACT textile prototype for a circular economy at Proposte Fair 2021
A cream-colored fabric could represent a significant progress for the plastic wastes’ treatment in the textiles, a priority product category in…
The Environmentally Friendly Scale-up of Waste Acrylic Fabrics Treatment
REACT partner Soft Chemicals takes us through this checkpoint phase in the project’s sustainable process. Soft Chemicals has successfully applied at…
REACT at AUTEX 2021
REACT’s achievements on hazardous finishes removal were presented at the AUTEX World Textile Conference’s 20th edition.   Brecht Tomme, from REACT…
Wastewater Treatment for the Clean Recycling of Acrylic Fabrics
REACT is implementing a waste management system to prevent the release of post-recycling process pollutants. REACT project’s goal is to mechanically…
REACT prototype at Proposte Fair 2021
REACT partner Parà will unveil the prototype at the renowned Italian furnishing textile fair in Cernobbio (Como) in September. The prototype…
REACT and the future of plastic treatment
REACT sharing its insights with other EC-funded projects in the domain of circular economy On July 1st, 2021, Project Coordinator Roberto…
Recycling of plastics: Towards a more sustainable plastic treatment in 2030
On 1 July, REACT Project Coordinator Roberto Vannucci (CENTROCOT), will speak at the webinar “Recycling of plastics. Towards a more sustainable…
“Removing Harmful Chemicals from Textile Waste” – The 2nd REACT Webinar
On 4 June 2021, REACT project hosted its 2nd webinar as partner event in the 2021 EU Green Week, Europe’s biggest…
Chemometrics: a predictive tool for substances on fabrics
The REACT project aims to mechanically recycle acrylic fabrics from the production or end-of-life of awnings and umbrellas. The main issue…
Introduction to open-end spinning technologies
In this comprehensive article, REACT partner CETI offers us a detailed primer on open-end spinning technologies: What are Open-end technologies? The…
Loops#4: A discussion with REACT and New Cotton!
On April 15, REACT was featured on the fourth episode of Veltha’s LOOPS, a live webinar series committed to spotlighting innovation…
REACT in conversation with NEW COTTON on Veltha’s LOOPS#4
REACT will take part to an episode of LOOPS: a live webinar series committed to spotlighting innovation in the field of…
The European Commission launches European Innovation Council to help turn scientific ideas into breakthrough innovations
The European Commission just launched – with an online event – the European Innovation Council (EIC), which brings a budget of over €10 billion…
As part of the work package that aims to the elimination of chemical products from the acrylic textile substrate, REACT partner…
Ják Spinning and the ring spinning process
The process of spinning yarn is basically the same since the very beginning of its industrial production. Although during the last…
Introducing the European light industries innovation and technology (ELIIT) project
The Light Industries Innovation and Technology project (ELIIT project) – an initiative of the European Union – seeks to support textile,…
The EU strategy for sustainable textiles
The EU opened the roadmap on strategy for sustainable textiles up for feedback for 4 weeks (05 January 2021 – 02…
H2020 projects workshop: “Innovative methods to remove hazardous substances and contaminants from secondary raw materials for the circular economy”
EASME (the EU Executive Agency for SMEs) is organising a H2020 projects online workshop entitled “Innovative methods to remove hazardous substances…
REACT was recently featured on the Italian online platform/news outlet Sustainability-Lab, an independent project supported by Blumine srl dedicated to reporting…
REACT in UNITEX JOURNAL
REACT Project was featured in the third 2020 issue of UNITEX‘s journal , thanks to the contribution of project partner Ghent…
Euronews‘ programme Business Planet travelled to Italy to cover REACT’s activity on acrylic textile recycling, conducting interviews at partners Parà and…
“Sustainable circular economy: Removing finishing chemical products from acrylic textile” – The first REACT Webinar
On October 29, REACT Project presented the preliminary research results on finishing chemical products removal from acrylic textile through its first…
REACT presented at the Plastics Circularity Multiplier Conference
On October 15, Daniele Piga (from REACT partner CENTROCOT) held a presentation on “Recycled acrylic fabrics, the problem of impurities” during…
Pilot plant for the REACT project: Semi-industrial platform for mechanical recycling of acrylic fibres
Last August, React partner CETI succeeded in producing, on its semi-industrial mechanical recycling line, an acrylic yarn made of up to…
Save the Date! REACT at the Plastic Circularity Multiplier Virtual Conference
REACT will be at the Plastic Circularity Multiplier Virtual Conference on October 15th, as part of its “Recycled plastic content in…
Para’ reaches the quota on waste collection
After a first phase regarding the definition of the waste sorting, Parà is glad to announce that it has reached the…
CENTROCOT contributing to circular economy development
CENTROCOT, REACT project coordinator, is developing and sharing know-how on circular economy and textiles recycling through the participation to local, national and…
Exciting results from REACT’s partners in the research field
Laboratory-scale research for the REACT project has revealed exciting results at Ghent University in Belgium and the University of Bergamo in…
REACT at the Plastics Circularity Multiplier Conference – Register now!
UPDATE: due to the current Covid-19-related situation, this event has been turned into a virtual event, with dates to be confirmed…
REACT joins Horizon 2020 for present and future Coronavirus response
On 4 May the European Union joined forces with global partners to kick-start the Coronavirus Global Response, a worldwide pledging effort to…
New website for our partner Ják
We congratulate our #SME partner Jak Spinning, specialised in #Acrylic Yarns production, for the launch of their new website. We would…
First REACT video online!
Meet the change-makers behind REACT project. Together, Industry, SMEs, Research Centres and Academics at work to give a 2nd life to…
Our partner Parà-Tempotest at Heimtextil 2020
Our partner Parà-Tempotest was preset at the Heimtextil 2020 between the 7th and 10th January in Frankfurt, Germany. Heimtextil in Frankfurt…
A fruitful plenary meeting
The whole team of the REACT project met at the premises of our partner Parà-Tempotest between the 20th and the 21st…
REACT at the LIFE Platform Meeting on Chemicals
REACT was presented at the LIFE Platform Meeting on Chemicals in Vilnius, Lithuania on 27-28 November 2019. The main aim of…
REACT at Ecomondo 2019
The REACT project was hosted at the stand of CENTROCOT’s Life M3P project. In this context, the REACT project team presented…
EU plastics projects join forces
Twenty innovation projects joined forces today to boost European Union efforts towards a circular economy for plastics. The ‘Plastics Circularity Multiplier’…
REACT at the Première Vision event
The REACT partner Centrocot participated at Première Vision event in Paris from 17th to 19th of September 2019. For 3 days,…
REACT project officially kicked off on 25th June 2019, with the kick off meeting held in Centrocot (Busto Arsizio) will all…
CETI HAS INAUGURATED THE FRENCH DEMONSTRATOR FOR THE MECHANICAL RECYCLING OF SHORT FIBRES
On Thursday 19 September, the CETI European Centre for Innovative Textiles inaugurated a new European preview of a unique sustainable development…
REACT ACRYLIC FABRICS WASTE COLLECTION
Para’ is our project’s industrial partner. Parà Industrial Group is a family company founded in 1921, producing textiles used for sun…
REACT partners Para’, Martel, CETI, Ghent University, Soft Chemicals, Jak Spinning met at Centrocot in Busto Arsizio (Italy) for the kick…
REACT at the World Circular Economy Forum 2019
REACT attended the World Circular Economy Forum 2019 participating to the side session “Scaling up innovative circular solutions for plastics” >organised…
REACT project kicks off its adventure
3, 2, 1… REACT project officially started! First of June is the official starting date for our project. The Kick-off meeting…