Sustainable innovations for the plastics industry

The Thuringian Institute for Textile and Plastics Research e. V. (TITK) , one of four affiliated institutes of the Ilmenau University of Technology, had two reasons to celebrate on August 9. As part of the anniversary celebrations "30+3 years of TITK = 70 years of research institutes in Rudolstadt-Schwarza", the institute not only celebrated over thirty years of successful materials research in the Bad Blankenburg town hall, but also the founding of a new innovation center for the textile circular economy under the name DICE (Demonstration and Innovation Center for Textile Circular Economy). The aim of the largest single investment in TITK’s history to date is to develop solutions for practical, integrated textile recycling.

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