Dutch Circular Textile Valley
Towards a 100%
circular textile
industry.
Dutch Circular Textile Valley is the collaboration of textile innovation ecosystems, the frontrunners in circular textiles.
What is DCTV?
A collaboration of regional ecosystems and frontrunners accelerating circular textiles.
We curate, stimulate, guide and learn with the most promising circular textile developments.
DCTV’s regional hubs and national organisation focus on:
- Jointly building a network of regional (innovation) hubs for circular textiles, in collaboration with local government, education and research institutions, and industry.
DCTV’s national organisation focuses on:
- Scaling up promising regional initiatives to the national level
- Contributing to the development of the right enabling conditions for a circular textile value chain
Our ambition
DCTV works towards a 100% circular textile industry. Our goals include:
- 01
Slow the loop
Life span extension of textile products by timeless design, repair, reuse and remanufacturing.
- 02
Close the loop
Reduction of the use of virgin fossil fibres by the promotion of advanced textile recycling processes and the use of recycled fibres or stimulate the use of biobased materials and maintain them in their natural loop.
- 03
Reduce negative impact
Reduction of the negative environmental and social impact of textiles.
OUR PROJECTS AND FOCUS AREAS
What DCTV is actually doing.
Focus areas
Regional hubs
A close network of regional ecosystems.
The team of DCTV consists of a close network of regional ecosystems, covering a wide spectrum of specialties and expertises.
Indicative representation of the DCTV regional hubs.
The people
Core team
The core team of textile transition directors (in Dutch ‘ketenregisseurs’) is formed by:
Claire Teurlings
Textile transition director
Anton Luiken
Textile transition director
Bart Kruijssen
Textile transition director
Nout Knabben
Textile transition director
DCTV Board
Jacqueline Cramer
Chair of the Board
Jose Teunissen
AMFI, AUAS, NewTexEco
Henk Hofstede
ABN Amro
Annemieke Koster
Enschede Textielstad
Willem Swager
Patagonia
The ecosystem
DCTV brings together the organizations needed to make circular textiles work at scale.
We work closely together with the Dutch Action plan Circular Transition Textiles, and a wide variety of stakeholders. For example:
Network & coalitions
Join DCTV and help accelerate the circular textile transition.
- 01
Connect & learn
Be part of our network and join community meet ups to stay informed of the most current knowledge: learn, share and connect on topics like fabrics, materials and production innovation technologies, updates on legislation, digitalization and product passporting, market information and interesting coalition formation.
- 02
Build coalitions
Be invited to join coalitions on a wide variety of topics that further the transition, and contribute to create market size. The transition needs frontrunners to make a point with a shared voice, to stimulate demand, to break through technical hurdles and to support other innovators.
- 03
Access funding
We work hard to strengthen the finance ecosystem and secure funds for both individual companies as well as consortia.
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