ALADIN project aims to advance circular textile production in Europe

Coordinated by the German Institutes for Textile and Fibre Research Denkendorf (DITF), the ALADIN inaugural is supported by the EU nether the Horizon Europe programme, with €5m ($5.7m) successful funding.

The task began activities successful May 2026 and focuses connected integrating integer platforms, caller concern models and precocious recycling methods with the extremity of establishing circular textile manufacturing systems astatine scale.

Project participants see partners from Germany, Romania, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic and Italy, encompassing expertise successful design, embroidery, digitisation, integer printing, recycling, AI and microfactory production.

The ALADIN consortium's attack is based connected 4 pillars, which see processing a integer services level for tiny and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), strengthening determination accumulation networks, advancing recycling strategies, and expanding the usage of section and renewable earthy materials.

DITF says it aims to make a collaborative infrastructure, connecting each steps of the textile worth concatenation from plan and manufacturing to lawsuit work and betterment for recycling.

Among the planned exertion developments are a module for a integer merchandise passport, which would alteration traceability and beforehand sustainable end-of-life management, and an AI-powered eco-design adjunct to enactment environmentally conscious merchandise development.

The task besides targets advancements successful recycled materials, including the manufacture of ring-spun yarns from recycled cotton.

The ALADIN consortium volition use its concepts successful 3 aviator usage cases: a semi-automatically produced T-shirt, a astute parka and a circular, adaptable blazer dress.

All items volition beryllium produced locally successful microfactories, tailored to idiosyncratic lawsuit specifications, and utilise sustainable materials, specified arsenic bio-based fibres and recycled textiles, with information fixed to easiness of recycling astatine the extremity of each product's lifecycle.

The task actively engages SMEs and start-ups done 2 unfastened calls for proposals, and stakeholders are included successful the plan and improvement of the integer platform.

Further ALADIN volition enactment broader technological innovation by encouraging advancement successful areas specified arsenic automation, accumulation processes and integer services wrong the ecosystem.

Long-term objectives of the task see the constitution of a Europe-wide web of microfactories, accrued employment opportunities, a higher stock of sustainable materials successful textile production, reduced discarded and strengthened determination economies.