Conference programme


Day Two - 25th June 2026 9:30 - 9:50


KEYNOTE: Closing the loop: from post-consumer waste to commercial collections Sara Díez, CEO, The Post Fiber; Silvia Ruiz Roura, Circularity Manager, Mango


10:00 - 10:10 INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: Update on Ecodesign Delegated Act Mauro Scalia, Director for Sustainable Businesses, EURATEX


10:10 - 10:40 PANEL DISCUSSION: Looking forward: designing sustainable and recyclable textiles


Moderator: Laura Vicaria, Program Director, Denim Deal; Ina Budde, Founder and CEO, Circular Fashion; Laetitia Forst, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, UAL; Mauro Scalia, Director for Sustainable Businesses, EURATEX; Tim Cross, CEO and Founder, The Circular Textiles Foundation


10:50 - 11:10 INDUSTRY ROUNDTABLE: Beyond compliance: building long-term partnership for sustainable textiles - creating value across the textiles supply chain


Moderator: Mohammed Patel, Membership Manager, UKFT; Paul Doertenbach, Head of Textile EPR Programme, Landbell Group


11:20 - 11:30 INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: Advancing post-consumer recycling of Nylon 66 Michael Heeran, European Technical Marketing Manager for Nylon Polymer, INVISTA


11:30 - 11:40 INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: Using AI to enable accuracy in textile composition detection Rebecca Geppert, Director of Partnerships, ReFiberd


11:40 - 11:50 INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: Next generation automated sorting, tracing and closed-loop recycling technologies for non-rewearable textiles


Thomas Fehn, Group Manager Chemical Recycling and Downstream Processes, Fraunhofer UMSICHT


12:00 - 12:20 INDUSTRY ROUNDTABLE: From blended textile waste to automotive implementation: scaling up through real industry collaboration


Revital Nadiv, CTO and Co-Founder, Re-Fresh Global; Thomas Große, Researcher, Volkswagen 12:30 - 13:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Bridging the circularity gap in uniforms, workwear and PPE


Moderator: Yvette Ashby, Founder and CEO, PCIAW; Natalie Wilson, Founder and Managing Director, Workwear Solutions International; Toomas Allikas, Founder and CEO, Greenful; Debbie Huntley, Sustainability Manager, PULSAR; Halit Gumuser, Managing Director, KİPAŞ Textiles


14:00 - 14:50 AWARDS: Textiles Recycling Awards Ceremony Host: Mariska Boer, President, Recycling Europe Textiles


15:00 - 15:10 INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: Enabling circularity for post-consumer textiles through advanced chemical recycling Nicolas Menet, Business Development Manager, Axens


15:10 - 15:20 INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: Are we nearly there yet? Why is this journey so long? A recycler’s perspective Adrian Jones, Co-Founder, BlockTexx


15:30 - 16:00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Beyond recycling: how re-use, repair, and waste reduction can support recycling and general sustainability


Moderator: Max Gilgenmann, Co-CEO, studio MM04; Mikko Suikosaari, Co-Founder and CCO, Ninyes; Monika Hauck, Founder and CEO, Repair Rebels; Ingrid Hontis, Sustainability Manager, Fedustria; Mariska Boer, President, Recycling Europe Textiles


16:10 - 16:20 INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: From demonstration to deployment: building replicable large-scale melt-to-spin capacity for textile recycling


Zeyi He, Chief Advisor, Syzerly Hong Kong


16:20 - 16:30 INDUSTRY PRESENTATION: Disruptive circular materials: designing textiles for real recycling systems Essi-Johanna Glomb, Chair, Disruptive Materials Institute


16:40 - 17:00 KEYNOTE: The EU textile circularity dilemma: reconciling reuse and recycling in today’s landscape Ekaterina Stoyanova, Senior Policy Advisor on Textiles, Recycling Europe


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