At the kick-off event in the sorting facility in Schattdorf, TEXAID reported on various research projects and gave information about the recently launched innovation fund.

Aside from informative speeches from TEXAID and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, there was a panel discussion on the topic “Opportunities and challenges of textile recycling”. Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber Marin, head of the research group products & textiles at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Adrian Berchtold, CEO of Ruckstuhl AG, and Martin Böschen, CEO of TEXAID Group, got together to discuss the textile value-creation chain from various perspectives.