The Horizon Europe CISUTAC (Circular & Sustainable Textiles and Clothing) consortium gathered in Genoa, Italy, for its penultimate General Assembly. The meeting brought together project partners to review recent technical progress and strategic developments.  

Highlights included:

• Updates on consumer circular behaviour, informed by guidelines from Wageningen University & Research, focusing on promoting reuse and donation via Oxfam (Ireland and Belgium) and Kringwinkel Antwerpen.  
• The advanced zipper repair workstation at Kringwinkel Antwerpen is now fully operational, demonstrating repair, reuse, and circular value across garments.  
• A sorting workstation at TEXAID uses AI, RFID tagging, and NIR scanning to improve sorting capacity. It also integrates data into the Global Textile Standard (GTS) platform to support Digital Product Passports.  
• The polyester fibre-to-fibre recycling pilot, developed by Centexbel, EREMA and AIMPLAS, now features processes including de-inking, pelletisation, melt-spinning, and garment prototyping.  
• Discussion of challenges and opportunities in green public procurement, aiming to scale demand for recycled and circular textile materials.  
• The Open Data Guide, created within CISUTAC, is designed to explain how accurate data in a Digital Product Passport (DPP) can support the valorisation of post-consumer textiles and turn them into secondary raw materials.  

As the consortium’s communications and community-building manager, Textile ETP presented on the growing ECOSYSTEX community, previewed upcoming campaign initiatives, and began filming the project’s final video, which is expected to launch in spring 2026.

For more information, please visit Textile ETP announcement.