Fashion to House: Polycotton to panels for
household products

The project, which aims to demonstrate the potential for circular and sustainable manufacturing across industries, is a collaboration between RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, H&M, Electrolux, The Loop Factory and Wargön Innovation. Through Wargön Innovation's test and demo environment for industrial sorting and evaluation of textile materials, the project will have access to polycotton textiles, which will be used to produce prototypes of the new material.

Objectives of the project

Among other things, the project will develop an industrially validated process to convert polycotton into materials that can be used in household products. It will also create a new demand for recycled polycotton that can meet or exceed the available surplus of textile waste, reduce the carbon footprint of household products by replacing virgin plastic with recycled textile material, and develop business models, investment plans and market strategies to commercialize the concept. The project aims to deliver technical developments, sustainability assessments, product ideas and a roadmap for commercialization.

The project is a preparatory project (stage 1) that takes the innovation from lab to prototype and prepares for the pilot stage in stage 2.