NEWS FROM THE PROJECT

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.

A pinch of salt to spice up wood

The GRETE partners know: chemistry is behind everything and plays a fundamental role in almost any imaginable product or technology around us.

Let’s talk about pulp

The GRETE consortium is working towards opening up wood pulp as a raw material for man-made cellulose fibres.

Half-time!

The GRETE consortium met for the first time in May 2019, thus the 5th consortium meeting, held on May 26th and 27th 2021, marked half-time of the international collaboration, having another 24 months of project activities ahead.

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.

Dalla carta alle fibre tessili

Some italian news? The online magazine Meta in Italy talked about GRETE. Read the full news: “Dalla carta alle fibre tessili”.

Tavoitteena kestävän kehityksen tekstiilikuidut

To our Finnish public: the Magazine Ympäristo ja Yritys 2/2019 explained more about GRETE Project. Read the full article (p.12): “Tavoitteena kestävän kehityksen tekstiilikuidut”.

Research project aims to increase production of man-made cellulose fibres

Pulp&Paper Canada wrote about us! They have been, since 1903, the most respected journal for technical information and news for managers and operators in Canada’s

New sustainable technologies for wood-to-textile value chain enables increased production of man-made cellulose fibers in Europe

EurekAlert! – operated by AAAS, the world’s largest general science society – wrote about us: “GRETE, the Green chemicals and technologies for the wood-to-textile value