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The process of using waste from the tanning industry to produce textile coatings for the automotive industry gave to a 100% Portuguese consortium, made up of CITEVE, ERT, CeNTI, and CTIC, an innovation award from Techtextil, which took place from the 21st to the 24th of June in Frankfurt, Germany.
The award, in the category “New Approaches on Sustainability and Circular Economy”, distinguished the process which offers a new generation of textile coatings and a new life to natural leather wasted from the tanning industry. In the photo, Michael Janecke (Messe Frankfurt), David Macario (ERT), Augusta Silva (CITEVE), and Heike Illing-Gubnther (jury), at the award ceremony.
“CITEVE researchers and its partners from ERT, CeNTI, and CTIC were able to gather an innovative solution to an enormous quantity of wastes from industrial leather cutting operations. An international jury of specialists recognized this scientific development as a happy and innovative symbiosis in the sustainable and circular economy areas”, affirms the Techtextil organization.
Developed in the scoop of the Texboost, a textile initiative that mobilizes the national textile and clothing, the awarded process has ERT Têxtil Portugal as a partner, which launched the brand – Phoenix – to commercially explore the new product that results from this technological innovation.
“By opening the way for the by-products of an industrial sector to be used as raw material in another sector, the work of the researchers of the consortium led by CITEVE is part of the trend towards an environmentally friendly, sustainable textile industry endowed with greater efficiency. ”, explains the jury of the Techtextil awards.