Project leader
The Belgian technical and scientific centre for the textile and plastic processing industry, CENTEXBEL, wants to encourage the competitiveness of the Belgian textile companies and plastic processing companies by encouraging and supporting innovation.
As one of the largest European research centres, CENTEXBEL performs five activities that reinforce each other: applied research development, testing and certification, knowledge dissemination & and standardisation.
The accredited laboratories of CENTEXBEL (BELAC ISO/IEC 17025) perform a full range of textile tests. With its semi-industrial pilot lines for product and process development, CENTEXBEL assists companies in their search for new, original, and successful niche products and/or applications of new technologies.
Partners
Certech
Certech is a research & development partner and provider of analytical and technological services for companies involved in chemistry-related activities: polymers; pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare; environment and energy; automotive and transport; packaging; construction. Our mission is to provide innovative solutions for the improvement or development of products and processes, in line with the principles of sustainable chemistry and the circular economy, in order to meet industrial and societal needs.
université de Lille
The University of Lille has nearly 8,000 staff and 80,000 students. In partnership with universities, national research bodies, the Lille University Hospital and the Pasteur Institute of Lille, the University of Lille develops high-level research and technological or service innovations through major scientific projects, cutting-edge technological resources and partnerships with socio-economic and cultural players (companies, foundations, associations, local authorities).
Excellence is the cornerstone of its ambition, and the policy implemented aims to strengthen the continuum between disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific research, in line with the major challenges facing society, and partnership research with socio-economic players. The University of Lille develops its projects within an international research framework, particularly with North-West Europe and with numerous partners throughout the world.
The University of Lille is multi-disciplinary, and the quality of its research is recognised through projects including laboratories and facilities of outstanding quality. In addition, it supports the emergence of new themes to enable the discoveries and inventions of tomorrow.
KU Leuven is a comprehensive university with a strong research focus that will celebrate its 600th anniversary in 2025. Today, KU Leuven has over 65,000 students spread across 15 faculties and several campuses in and outside Leuven. Overall, KU Leuven is ranked among the top 50 universities in the world in the Times Higher Education ranking.
The Sustainable Materials Lab, part of the Department of Chemical Engineering, carries out the majority of its research activities at the KU Leuven KULAK campus in Kortrijk. This research group specialises in the development of (nano)materials based on renewable raw materials. Renewability is considered in the broadest sense of the word, including the recycling of these and petroleum-based materials.
EuraMaterials supports companies and research bodies in their projects to create, develop, innovate and improve materials and/or their transformation processes, to enable them to meet the expectations of their customers, regulatory constraints and the challenges of their business sectors. EuraMaterials is supported by public-sector partners: the European Union, the French government, the Hauts-de-France Region, the Lille European Metropolis and the Pays de Saint-Omer Conurbation Community.
