Announcements

The European project MIDWOR-LIFE, led by AEI TÈXTILS (the Catalan technical textile cluster), will present the key results from the project on October 30^th in a webinar organized by the working group on perfluorinated chemicals from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This group is composed of worldwide network experts and major national and international chemical regulatory agencies including the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) among others.

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On August 31^st, the European project MIDWOR-LIFE completed its cycle and reached its official ending. The project, which focused on the study and evaluation of safer and greener alternatives for durable water and oil repellents (DWOR) used in the textile finishing industry, was ongoing since September 2015 and it had a duration of 3 years.

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MIDWOR-LIFE project announces the publication of the Layman’s report in all project languages.

English version.

Spanish version.

Italian version.

Czech version.

Catalan version.

The aim of this document is to provide a general and brief overview of the project and its outcomes to the general public. It was designed according to LIFE programme rules to facilitate the reading by non-experts in the field.

MIDWOR-LIFE projects present its final report on the results of the communication activities.

During the 36 months, the project has organized consortium meetings every 6 months and participated in the following dissemination events:

• ETP Annual Conference 2016 (13-14 April’16, Brussels-Belgium)
• CITEXT’16 (27-28 April’16 Troyes-France)
• mTex fair (30/5-2/6 16’ Chemnitz, Germany)
• 24^th IFATCC International Congress (Pardubice, Czech Republic, 13-16^th June 2016)
• Participation in the 4^th edition of the Texmeeting Conference (Barcelona, Spain), 29^th
• Dornbirn Man-Made Fibers Congress (Dornbirn, Austria, 20-22^nd September 2016)
• FILO’s 46^th International Yarns Exhibition (Milan Italy, 28-29^th September 2016)
• ETP conference (Brussels, Belgium, 30-31^st March 2017)
• FILO’s 47^th International Yarns Exhibition (Milan Italy, 22-23^rd February 2017)
• CLUTEX, AEI TEXTILS and LEITAT attended TECHTEXTIL (Frankfurt, Germany), 9-12^th May 2017.
• LEITAT presented a poster in the 16^th International Conference on Chemistry and the Environment. 18-22^nd of June 2017 (Oslo, Sweden).
• CETIM participated in the LCM 2017 Conference, specifically in the session LCM and Circular Economy Challenges for the textile sector, through the following contribution: Environmental analysis of the best available finishing products to provide water, oil and dirt repellency in the textile sector. A Life Cycle Assessment approach.
• AEI TEXTIL participated at Dornbirn Man-Made Fibers Congress (Dornbirn, Austria), 13-15^th September 2017.
• AEI TEXTIL participated at the A+A trade fair in Dusseldorf (Germany) on October 17th 2017.
• AEI TEXTIL participated at the Technical Textile Meetings Morocco on November 22-23rd 2017.
• LEITAT presented a poster at SETAC Europe 28th Annual Meeting in Rome on March 13-17th 2018.
• CSIC-ICAQ presented a poster on the 43th Symposium of the Spanish Association of Textile Chemists and Colourists, Terrassa, March 21st 2018.
• CLUTEX participated at mTEX 2018 on March 2018
• AEI TEXTIL participated at CITEXT 2018 in Troyes (France) on May 16 and 17th.
• AEI TEXTIL participated at Colombiamoda 2018 + Textiles2 in Medellin, Colombia, from July 24-26th 2018 where the project was also presented at the Knowledge pavilion as a conference on sustainability and circular economy.
• CETIM will be presenting the project LCA project results at Berlin LCIC 2018 conference on August 29-31st 2018.

The press impact report can be downloaded here.

The MIDWOR-LIFE team recently launched the project web tool to compare and assess DWOR alternatives within the textile industry.

The tool provides access to technical and environmental results, obtained during the project to help European SMEs in the textile sector to assess the different alternatives.

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The MIDWOR-LIFE consortium has been working during the past 3 years on identifying and assessing the different alternatives for water and oil repellents for substitution. Now we release the draft reports for the key activities that will be presented in the workshop titled: “Substitution of PFCs from Durable Water and oil repellents used in the textile finishing industry”.
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Currently, the most used Durable Water and Oil Repellents (or DWORs) are made of per- and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (PFCs/PFAS) based on C6 chemistry after the inclusion of C8 chemistries (PFOA/PFOS) in ECHA’s restriction list (Annex XVII of REACH). Currently, some Member State authorities have initiated the process for the inclusion of C6 perfluorinated chemistries into the restriction list as well making the search for sustainable and high-performance products a must.

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We kindly invite you to the MIDWOR-LIFE final event. The aim of this event is to present the key findings and outcomes from the MIDWOR-LIFE project and open a debate on the implementation of chemical substitution policies in the textile industry with focus on the use of Durable Water and Oil Repellents (DWORs) in textile finishing processes.

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On January 29, part of the industrial demonstration tests of the MIDWOR-LIFE project were carried out in the finishing company Hidrocolor. The company collaborates together with 5 other finishing textile companies from Spain, Italy and Czech Republic who will validate safer and environmentally-friendlier DWORs in the frame of the project.

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On October 4^th, a major milestone of the MIDWOR-LIFE project was achieved with the first industrial demonstration of alternative DWORs at Tintoria Finissaggio 2000 (TF2000) manufacturing plant in Italy. TF2000 is one of the 6 textile finishing companies that collaborate with the MIDWOR-LIFE project on the industrial validation of safer and environmentally friendlier DWOR products.

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