NEWS FROM THE PROJECT AND THE WEB
Find here the latest updates about GRETE project: initiatives of the consortium, activities and events open to stakeholders. Furthermore, interesting news, links and events are selected from the web related to the project’s topics: biotechnologies, eco-textiles, textile value chain, innovative and sustainable textile products and solutions, and many more.
Where we’re at
In recent times, awareness about the impacts of the textile industry has risen widely, also in the public domain, where initiatives such the Fashion Revolution
Is cellulose going to be the new petroleum?
Encouraged by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that is questioning a lot of our current models and habits, the civil society is manifesting environmental concerns and consumers show raised interest in products made of renewable raw materials in a sustainable manner.
Understanding the terms
Are you familiar with terms such as “paper grade kraft pulp” and “ionic liquids”? Do you have a clue what “cellulose pre-treatments and dissolution” is or how you can spin man-made cellulose fibres? We didn’t – until we met GRETE.
Ready for going into details
2020 has been a tough year, in many aspects. The physical isolation forced many of us to focus on the essentials and go more into details. So will we do, while going on in telling you the GRETE story.
Looking back on 2020
December 2020 marks a step in many ways: the end of a difficult year with a lot of uncertainties that influenced our private and professional life. For the GRETE partners in particular, the last months of this troubled 2020 meant also to focus on the reporting of the first 18 months of project execution.
Project video part of the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2020
GRETE caught the opportunity of the Global Bioeconomy Summit (GBS) call for video to disseminate its ambitions to a broad audience of experts of the bioeconomy.
Thesis workers at VTT: Andreas Reipsar, Elisa Spönla
Thanks to the BBI JU funding, specific research is made possible in GRETE that will lead to innovation in the wood pulp modification processes and enable functionalised wood-based textile fibres, while reducing the environmental impact for man-made cellulose fibres.
GRETE consortium: the research institutes
Strength of the GRETE initiative is a coalition of strong partners anchored in different fields of activity – research, consultancy, industry – and operating at the leading edge of innovation.
Adapt to the unknown
On May 27th and 28th the GRETE partners were supposed to get together again in Helsinki to hold the 3rd consortium meeting.
Public debut
GRETE joined the Bio-based Industries Stakeholder Forum 2019 edition presenting itself to a broad audience for the first time. The event was held on two
Getting familiar
BOKU welcomed its fellow consortium partners on October 10th for the second project meeting at its Technopol Campus in Tulln an der Donau (AT). The
Ready to start the journey
On June 4th and 5th 2019 GRETE consortium partners gathered for the first time at project coordinator VTT facilities in Espoo (FI) to kick-off the
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Where we’re at
In recent times, awareness about the impacts of the textile industry has risen widely, also in the public domain, where initiatives such the Fashion Revolution
Is cellulose going to be the new petroleum?
Encouraged by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that is questioning a lot of our current models and habits, the civil society is manifesting environmental concerns and consumers show raised interest in products made of renewable raw materials in a sustainable manner.
Understanding the terms
Are you familiar with terms such as “paper grade kraft pulp” and “ionic liquids”? Do you have a clue what “cellulose pre-treatments and dissolution” is or how you can spin man-made cellulose fibres? We didn’t – until we met GRETE.
Ready for going into details
2020 has been a tough year, in many aspects. The physical isolation forced many of us to focus on the essentials and go more into details. So will we do, while going on in telling you the GRETE story.
Looking back on 2020
December 2020 marks a step in many ways: the end of a difficult year with a lot of uncertainties that influenced our private and professional life. For the GRETE partners in particular, the last months of this troubled 2020 meant also to focus on the reporting of the first 18 months of project execution.
Project video part of the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2020
GRETE caught the opportunity of the Global Bioeconomy Summit (GBS) call for video to disseminate its ambitions to a broad audience of experts of the bioeconomy.
Thesis workers at VTT: Andreas Reipsar, Elisa Spönla
Thanks to the BBI JU funding, specific research is made possible in GRETE that will lead to innovation in the wood pulp modification processes and enable functionalised wood-based textile fibres, while reducing the environmental impact for man-made cellulose fibres.
GRETE consortium: the research institutes
Strength of the GRETE initiative is a coalition of strong partners anchored in different fields of activity – research, consultancy, industry – and operating at the leading edge of innovation.