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The textile industry's game changer – innovative robot hand awarded

Imagine you throw your t-shirt on the floor, it lands and becomes a shapeless pile of fabric. You pick it…

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Enhancing circular service accessibility for young people

Despite the growing interest in sustainability and environmental awareness – young adults find it difficult to fully embrace circular services.…

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Nordic blockchain collaboration creates traceability for the future

Can blockchain technology increase transparency and traceability in the textile and lifestyle industries? That is the hope of the collaborative…

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Circular design guide to strengthen the use of Swedish wool

Used correctly, Swedish wool fiber is a natural and sustainable alternative – but today more than half of the wool…

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From idea to reality: Large-scale investment to change the textile and fashion industry

Better design from the outset, repair, reuse, and recycle – fourteen partners from across the community are coming together to…

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About Smart Textiles

With over 500 research and business projects since its inception in 2006, Smart Textiles is not only recognized as an engine in the Swedish textile industry, but also established as an important international player.

Clothing that monitors your health or measures your movements. Technology that makes it possible to recycle textile fibers and re-use them.

In the future, the industry will move from being a fabric supplier to being a part of social development. Textile innovations that improve both people’s everyday lives and provide benefits for industry, healthcare and the environment. But innovations do not arise in a vacuum.

An open environment is required where voices from many different backgrounds are met and conversations are without prejudice to finding both desired and unexpected solutions. Smart Textiles is the innovation environment in northern Europe.

Research, business, institutions and the public sector meet to find future solutions today. With a comprehensive offering, with everything from basic research to prototyping, Smart Textiles is the obvious partner when a textile idea is to be realized or a need is met with textile technology.

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Smart Textiles Showroom

Smart Textiles Showroom is a place for meetings and knowledge. Here, you’ll find various textile materials and commodities samples developed within Smart Textiles’ various projects, as well as from the Swedish School of Textiles’s machinery parks and other interesting materials purchased from external manufacturers.

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