Industrial Challenge

Refashion's Industrial Challenge is a funding program for industrial-scale textile and footwear recycling projects.

Discover the winners of the 1st edition of the Industrial Challenge: 7 concrete solutions to recycling challenges.

Refashion's Industrial Challenge is a funding program for industrial-scale textile and footwear recycling projects.

Discover the winners of the 1st edition of the Industrial Challenge: 7 concrete solutions to recycling challenges.

Industrial Challenge's objectives

The aim of the Industrial Challenge is to accelerate the recycling of textiles and footwear in France and Europe, through the industrialisation of innovative technologies and industrial outlets.

For this 1st edition, Refashion sought to receive projects with a technology readiness level of between 7 and 9, and which fit into one of the following strategic areas: 

  1. Industrial solutions for automated sorting to recognise materials and colours, and to prepare non-reusable household textiles and footwear for recycling, 

  2. Industrial solutions for recycling non-reusable used household textiles and footwear,

  3. Incorporation of recycled materials into semi-finished or finished products on an industrial scale.

The Industrial Challenge in figures

Winning projects in the value chain

Projects across France and Europe

Discover the first edition's winning projects

You want to find out more about the winners of Refashion's Industrial Challenge? Discover the project sheets!

Download the projects sheets

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