Project description
Innovative fermentation technology for biodegradable textile fibres
The textile industry is among the most polluting sectors worldwide. Innovative models reducing pollution are needed. With this in mind, the EU-funded CO2TEXTILE project will create a disruptive business model in the textile industry by establishing new interconnections between CO2-emitting industries and the textile industry. The innovation relies on a patented fermentation technology that turns harmful industrial CO2 gases into valuable, 100 % biodegradable biopolymers. The technology captures CO2 emissions before their release into the atmosphere and uses them as feedstock to produce added-value PHA biopolymers through a highly efficient, high-yield fermentation process. The material fully decomposes within one year in industrial or home compost conditions or the marine environment preventing plastic pollution.
Objective
Our innovation is the creation of a disruptive business model in the textile industry by establishing a new interconnection between two industrial value chains that are typically not connected: CO2-emitting industry such as energy intense sectors, e.g. chemical industry, and the textile industry. The innovation is enabled by our patented fermentation technology which turns harmful industrial CO2-gases into valuable, 100% biodegradable biopolymers. We capture CO2 emissions before their release into the atmosphere and use them as feedstock to produce added-value PHA biopolymers through a highly efficient, high-yield fermentation process. In this process, 2.5 tonnes of CO2 are turned into 1 tonne of PHA biopolymer, from which textile fibres are produced and sold at current market prices (€1/kg). The material can be used for several years and fully decomposes within 1 year in industrial or home compost conditions or in the marine environment, thus preventing plastic pollution.
Fields of science
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- engineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextiles
- engineering and technologyenvironmental biotechnologybioremediationcompost
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybiomaterialsbioplasticspolyhydroxyalkanoates
- engineering and technologyindustrial biotechnologybioprocessing technologiesfermentation
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HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF - HORIZON EIC Accelerator Blended FinanceCoordinator
65760 ESCHBORN
Germany
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.