Aquafil-Group will host the next meeting of the textile technical committee CENTC 248 textile circularity working group at Aquafil SLO in Ljubljana

The working group CEN/TC 248/WG 39 - CIRCULAR TEXTILES CHAIN - REQUIREMENTS AND CATEGORIES, is working on the drafting of standards in the field of the circular economy of textile materials, products made with textile materials, and combined products containing textile and nontextile components.

Here are the stds in developments

- General principles and guidance

- Categorisation of and requirements on non-virgin input materials

- Minimum requirements for clothing

- Design for circularity

Here is the link, for more details on WG 39's work program and the standards being worked on: https://standards.cencenelec.eu/dyn/www/f?p=205:22:0::::FSP_ORG_ID,FSP_LANG_ID:2922255,25&cs=107C9E56F42A03A3BCB4F2ED884FF50D4

About 60 (face to face or via web) experts from all over the textile world will attend the meeting.

The two days will include, among other activities, a guided tour of our production plant where one of the world's few cases of chemical recycling of PA6 is located.

Our ECONYL? plant, which has been operating for many years the recycling of polyamide (PA6)-based waste and enables the generation of PA6 polymer again, with characteristics equivalent to the fossil-derived product, called @ECONYL?.