Advanced biotechnologies for clean production of cellulosic textile fibres (HIGHTEX-BIOLOSE)

Project Information

HIGHTEX-BIOLOSE

Grant agreement ID: G1RD-CT-2000-00446

Project closed

Start date 1 April 2001

End date 31 March 2004

Funded under

• Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002"

Total cost € 2 081 598,00

EU contribution € 1 040 797,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU TEXTILE ET DE L'HABILLEMENT
France

Objective

Facing problem of defective cellulosic fibres increasing production costs of EU cotton & flax spinning companies, project aims through advanced clean biotechnological process to improve this raw material and to make them available at cheaper price for textile industrials. It will enhance competitiveness of EU spinning mills & also develop new markets for EU biotechnology companies. Biological tools & way of application at low moisture content will be studied at lab & pilot scale to treat causes of stickiness & immaturity of cotton & of under retting of flax. Results will be validate thanks to industrial trials. Engineering of industrial treatment line will be designed to allow short term implementation. Methods should be transferred to cellulosic material in other industrial sectors.

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• engineering and technology › materials engineering › textiles

Programme(s)

• FP5-GROWTH - Programme for research technological development and demonstration on "Competitive and sustainable growth 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.3.-1. - Key Action Innovative Products, Processes and Organisation

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

INSTITUT FRANCAIS DU TEXTILE ET DE L'HABILLEMENT

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Avenue Guy de Collongue ; 69134 ECULLY ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (5)

LALLEMAND SA

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Complexe Scientifique de Rangueil - Hall Gilbert D ; 31405 TOULOUSE
• Total cost: No data

LINIFICIO E CANAPIFICIO NAZIONALE S.P.A.

Italy

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Ponti 6 ; 24045 FARA GERA D'ADDA
• Total cost: No data

LYVEN S.A.

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Route de Paris ; 14630 CAGNY
• Total cost: No data

RODOPI TEXTILES S.A.

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Industrial Area Komotini ; 69100 KOMOTINI
• Total cost: No data

THRAKIKA EKKOKISTIRIA SA

Greece

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 4th Klm Komotini - Xanthi ; 69100 KOMOTINI
• Total cost: No data