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10 Jan 2023News

Groundbreaking Textile Innovation Fights Environmental Issue Caused by Cotton Cultivation

Fibrenamics, a leading institute for fiber-based solutions and composites, announced the success of the TerryPlanet project, in partnership with Mundotêxtil. The project, which aimed to develop innovative terry cloth based on circular economy principles, was a major step towards exploring sustainable strategies in the production of terry cloth, a type of structure often used in bath towels.

12 Sep 2022News

"The price of recycled raw materials often has a price that makes the final product economically unviable"

In an interview with Fibrenamics, Cláudia Costa, R&D Manager at Surforma, expresses her opinion on issues such as product biodegradability and circularity of waste in companies.

21 Jul 2022News

"We Are Facing an Industrial Revolution"

In exclusive for Fibrenamics, José Manuel Ribeiro, LIPOR's Chairman of the Board of Directors answer several questions about the potentiality of waste and product circularity, generated by several industrial sectors.

19 May 2022News

Rui Berkemeier: "The problem is the systematic non-compliance of countries with European directives, as is the case of Portugal"

Rui Berkemeier analyzed, together with Raul Fangueiro during the 2nd Episode of the Podcast From Science To People, the new package of actions from the European Commission, regarding waste management and the regulation of technical communication from companies about their products.

12 May 2022News

"Plastic waste is increasingly polluting the oceans and by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans"

Exclusively for Fibrenamics, Célia Vilas Boas, Executive Director of BioRumo, gives answers to several questions about sustainability in various sectors of activity. This article corresponds to the 1st part of this interview.

11 May 2022News

Non-Urban Waste Management in Portugal

From the point of view of the valorization of new types of industrial waste, Carlos Mota, Project Manager at Fibrenamics, confessed, during the Webinar on Waste Management, that it is a challenge to implement the various requests made by the companies, in order to find solutions for different types of materials.

10 May 2022News

Waste Recovery: The Road to Sustainability

The path, in our country, to true economic and environmental sustainability is through the use of discarded materials either in industrial processes, services, and in our homes.

30 Mar 2022News

Inês Costa: "For years, the onus was placed on the citizen, but the issue lies with the agents operating in the system"

Reflecting on the development of the economy and society, there is an urgent need for real changes within both the economic and social systems. If in the past, natural resources were extracted with the objective of supplying the basic needs of human beings, today we can see that the extraction of these resources is essentially aimed at the growth of social wealth.