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Don't miss your chance and register today! Textile SIG of PETCORE EUROPE, the Brussels-based polyester value chain association, is hosting an online webinar dedicated to the latest developments in TEXTILE Polyester recycling.
This event will provide insights into advancements in mechanical, depolymerization and sorting technologies, while also exploring the challenges of scaling the necessary collection & sorting quantities through the recycling process.
European stakeholders from industry, retail, policy and finance EU leaders will gather for a high-level conference dedicated to accelerating polyester textile circularity across the EU.
The programme brings together regulatory leaders, industrial pioneers,investors and retailers to align the conditions needed for large-scale deployment.
The opening sessions set the scene by examining a central question: Is Europe enabling or constraining the circular transition? Presentations on regulatory steering and industrial prerequisites will clarify how current EU frameworks shape investment decisions and technological rollout.
Several European success cases will be showcased, demonstrating that circularity is already becoming a reality , from an EPR-driven R&D funding model, to a fully integrated industrial platform covering sorting, preparation, spinning and weaving, to advanced recycling technologies entering deployment.
A dedicated investment block gathers institutional and private investors to outline the conditions required to finance textile circularity at EU scale, including regulatory visibility, stable feedstock access and mature industrial models. The agenda also highlights the growing role of retailers, whose engagement is now essential to support collection, design choices and circular value chains.
Twenty rapid industrial technology updates will offer a clear overview of the solutions currently available and the remaining steps needed to reach industrial scale.
The event concludes with next steps for EU-level coordination, including regulatory follow-up, Brussels mapping, and the upcoming work of the platform dedicated to polyester circularity.
This conference aims to create a shared action framework, aligning regulation, industry, investment and retail so that Europe can transform circularity objectives into an operational and competitive textile ecosystem.
THE Agenda & Speakers:
Explanation of the agenda - have a glance at this overview to undetsnad better the event!
Session 1
13:15-13:25 Opening & Strategic Context political & industrial framing by Alain Poincheval (REJU), Christian-Yves Crépet & Raphaël Jaumotte (PETCORE EUROPE)
Session 2
13:25-15:15 Is Europe Enabling or Blocking Circularity? Moderated by Alain Poincheval (REJU)
13:25-13:45 REGULATION STEEERING THE TRANSITION EFFECITVELY
A. AMI (Silke Einschuetz) — Closing the loop: Advancements in chemical recycling for textile waste – 10 mins
B. IFPEN (Frederic FAVRE) — Regulatory prerequisites for viable industrial deployment of advanced textile polyester recycling – 10 mins
13:45-14:15 EU IMPLEMENTATION SUCCESS MODELS
1. REFASHION (France EPR Scheme) (Cecile Martin) — R&D funding schemes for accelerating post-consumer polyester textiles recycling in Europe – 10 mins
2. Nouvelles Fibres Textiles (Antoine Saint-Pierre) — First fully integrated EU industrial model: from automated sorting & preparation to spinning / weaving – 10 mins
3. GR3N (Maurizio Crippa) — Entering industrial deployment: remaining regulatory obstacles & required enabling conditions – 10 mins
14:15-14:55 TEXTILE RECYCLING INVESTMENT OUTLOOK
1. Financing Polyester Textile:
A. Institutional requirements by Invest-NL (Guy de Sevaux) - Investment expectations: what financial institutions require to deploy capital at EU scale (10 min)
B. Private Investors’ Perspective by Infinity Recycling (Jan Willem Muller) - Key considerations and risk–return expectations (10 min)
2. Unlocking uncaptured feedstock by Accelerating Circularity (Micke Magnusson & Charline Ducas) - a strategic opportunity to activate now (10 min)
3. EU Transition Pathways: PETCORE’s Contribution to the EU Textiles Ecosystem Platform by Christian-Yves Crépet (PETCORE EUROPE) (10 min)
14:55–15:15 — Roundtable with all speakers, Q&A and Closing of the Segment moderated by C.Crépet (20 min)
15:15-15:30 COFFEE BREAK
15:30 -15:45 REGULATORY UPDATE - European Commission Directorate-General for Environment Unit B4 – Sustainable Products (Carsten Wentink) - 15 mins
Session 3
15:45 – 17:10 20 INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY UPDATES (5 minutes per presentation)
- Indorama Ventures (Jesper van Berkel)
- Axens (Fabian LAMBERT)
- Carbios (Carherine Linard)
- Coperion (Aleyna Yaman)
- Cure Technology (Josse Kunst)
- Depoly (Gaetano Dedual)
- Erema (Wolfgang Hermann)
- Gr3n (Maurizio Crippa)
- Matterr (Eva Kamp)
- Pellenc ST (Eric Westerhoff)
- Plasta Rei (Luana Sanna)
- REJU (Alain Poincheval)
- Starlinger (Liliana Orban)
- Tomra (Louisa Hoyes)
Session 4
17:10-17:45 Q&A 2 on industrial Tech update
17:45 - 18:00 Wrap-Up & Next Steps: next milestones: Brussels mapping update, policy coordination brief, follow-up EU-level platform action by Alain Poincheval (REJU), Christian-Yves Crépet & Raphaël Jaumotte (PETCORE EUROPE)
OUR SPEAKERS
