3 March 2026

Dutch people and their wardrobes: what the figures show

The transition to a circular textile system starts not only in design and production, but also in consumers’ wardrobes. This is according to recent research by Hogeschool Rotterdam, conducted in collaboration with several colleges and our research consortium NewTexEco. The study, based on the analysis of 958 wardrobes of Dutch people aged between 15 and […]

3 September 2025

Launch Knit2Last: from waste to innovation

Knit2Last is an innovative step towards circular and smart knitwear production made possible by the KIEM HighTech 2025 grant. The textile industry is among the biggest environmental polluters worldwide. Large waste streams are created during production, while discarded textiles have limited circular recycling. Our NewTexEco partner New Industrial Order (N.I.O.) is developing smart, local on-demand […]

22 April 2025

Does bamboo have a future in Europe? Read the story behind the research ‘Bamboo Europe’ of Crissi Apostolidis and Tjeerd Veenhoven

Bamboo grows fast, enriches poor soils and absorbs lots of CO2. Until now, we mainly imported this type of wood from Asia. But with the introduction of a large-scale bamboo plantation in Europe, there is now more room for research into building a sustainable bamboo value chain. That was precisely the aim of the research […]

20 March 2025

Daniëlle Bruggeman inaugurates as associate professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Radboud University

Daniëlle Bruggeman today delivers her inaugural address as extraordinary professor of Fashion and Sustainability at Radboud University in Nijmegen. Bruggeman has been a lecturer in Fashion at ArtEZ since 2017 and also teaches in the master’s programme Critical Fashion Practices. She is also a member of the NewTexEco programme team. In April 2024, she was […]