Projects

Together with our valued partners, we're shaping the future of circular materials through the following collaborative projects.

CelluCircle

LIFE Project: Scaling Textile Recycling to Industrial Production (2026–2029)

LIFE25-ENV-SE-LIFE-NEXTEX

Grant Number: 101294806, 2026-2029

In 2026, CelluCircle was awarded almost €6 million in funding through the EU LIFE Programme to coordinate a major new project focused on scaling our textile recycling technology towards industrial production.

Together with project partners AddNorth and Telge Återvinning, the project will build on CelluCircle’s demonstrator facility and support the next stage of commercialisation, including the development of our first full-scale production unit and the foundations for future rollout of additional facilities.

The project will demonstrate how post-consumer and industrial textile waste can be transformed into valuable circular raw materials for new applications and industries. By developing multiple material streams from textile waste, the project aims to establish new circular value chains, reduce reliance on virgin resources, and demonstrate a commercially scalable solution for keeping textile materials in use.

For CelluCircle, the LIFE project represents a major step from demonstration towards industrial-scale production, helping bring our technology and circular materials to market at significantly greater volumes.

Impact Innovation: Increased Resource Efficiency and Resilience (2024–2027)

A 2.5-year national initiative funded by Vinnova, the Swedish Energy Agency, and Formas, focused on accelerating the commercialisation of advanced textile recycling technology. The project includes the development of a pilot-scale facility (10 % of full industrial scale) to produce bio-based raw materials from discarded textiles.

In collaboration with Stadium and Telge Återvinning, the project aims to deliver 30,000 tons of recycled material, reduce CO₂ emissions by over 75 %, and strengthen Sweden’s resource efficiency and industrial resilience.

Vinnova Impact Project (2025–2026)

In June 2025, CelluCircle received major funding from Vinnova under Impact: Ökad resurseffektivitet och resiliens, etapp 2 to lead the project “Sustainable Domestic Industrial Production with New Raw Materials from Chemically Recycled Textile Waste.”

As project coordinator, we’re working with partners including IKEA, Telge Återvinning, Stadium, Lindex, and RISE to scale our recycling process, process real textile waste, and validate circular materials for industrial use — advancing Sweden’s transition toward a circular economy.

GearUp (EU Horizon Europe, 2024–2028)

Green Engineering, Analysis, & Reskilling for Unbounded Production

Grant Number: 101178484, 2024-2028

A four-year EU-funded Horizon Europe project focused on advancing industrial 3D printing and machine learning to enable recycled materials, such as discarded textiles, to match the performance of virgin resources. As part of the GearUp consortium, CelluCircle is developing nanocomposite and thermomechanical filament technologies from recycled textiles, supported by advanced modeling and process optimisation.

The project aims to demonstrate scalable solutions for high-performance 3D-printed components across multiple industries, accelerating the transition toward a circular, resource-efficient materials economy.

INN-PRESSME (EU Horizon 2024–2025)

Part of the INN-PRESSME Open Call, this project focused on scaling up nanocellulose-based materials derived from chemically recycled textiles for use in 3D printing and biocomposite applications.

In collaboration with RISE, VTT, CEA, and IPC, CelluCircle successfully developed and validated processes for producing cellulose nanofibrils (CNF) and cellulose nanocrystals (CNC), along with pilot-scale compounding and filament production. The project demonstrated the potential of bio-based, high-performance materials to replace fossil-based inputs and support the EU’s circular economy transition.

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