AITEX brought together 25 experts from the defense sector from different European countries for the final meeting of the “Circular Material for Textiles” working group, within the “Incubation Forum for Circular Economy in European Defense” project. (IF CEED).
Within the framework of this initiative, research projects are being incubated whose objective is the development of technologies and new methodologies that facilitate the recycling of textile waste generated by the defense sector.
The representatives of the European Defense Agency (EDA), the Ministry of Defense of Spain and the industry exchanged ideas on new recycling projects for post-consumer textile waste applied to the defense sector and laid the foundations for the implementation phase of the themselves.
Finally, a visit to the new AITEX facilities was made.