Focus area 4: Facilitating a platform for innovative textile companies in cooperation with the regional hubs

Challenge, vision and goal

Regional initiatives that are ready for market adoption have limited access to the market.

Consequence: Repetition in (many) pilots and missed economic opportunities.

Vision: Circular procurement policies by governments, companies, knowledge institutions and civil-society organisations increase sales of circular textile products and services.

Goal: Moving from one-off initiatives with new materials to scale-up and “business as usual.

Upcoming activities

• Recently we took stock of which regional initiatives would benefit from national scale-up.
• Scaling-up the production of materials (yarns, fabrics) developped in successful regional pilots, is a shared challenge. Currently they are often developed and offered/applied only once. New customers come with new pilots instead of ordering these existing materials.
• Solution: use the DCTV platform to showcase materials/products of (regional or one-off) innovative textile companies and projects to buyers
• Link to (procurement) networks such as PIANOo, CBM and the PROs