Matchmaking with Stichting UPV Textiel
Changing tomorrow, starts today
📍 11 September | 12:00 – 14:30
With Sekhar Lahiri (Director) & Edith van Heijningen (Manager Innovation & Operations)
About the company
Stichting UPV Textiel is the producer organisation that supports brands and importers placing textiles on the Dutch market. With a strong focus on innovation and system change, the foundation helps participants not only comply with their legal EPR obligations, but also actively contribute to building a circular textile chain.
What can you expect?
This session begins with a presentation from Stichting UPV Textiel, highlighting who they are, their results so far, and why innovation is essential for achieving the EPR objectives. You’ll learn how pilots, transition incentives, and matchmaking platforms are bringing stakeholders together across the chain to accelerate system change.
After the presentation, participants will join roundtable discussions designed to connect industry actors and explore solutions to some of the biggest challenges in circular textiles.
Roundtable themes (choose 2 when registering):
- Fiber-to-Fiber Recycling: Chemical – Opportunities and challenges for chemical innovation.
- Fiber-to-Fiber Recycling: Mechanical – Scaling volumes: what is needed to speed up?
- Sorting for Fiber-to-Fiber Recycling (Automation) – The first key step: where and how?
- Textile Collection – Improving & innovating infrastructure in the Netherlands.
- Re-use of Textiles in the Netherlands – What is needed to grow this market?
What will you learn?
- The role of innovation in achieving EPR objectives.
- Insights into pilots and incentives supporting system change.
- Practical knowledge on collection, reuse, and recycling.
- Opportunities to connect with innovators, brands, and policymakers shaping the 2030 circular textile chain.
Who should attend?
Brands and producers (product managers, designers, buyers), processors in the textile industry, innovators, and policymakers.
Availability: Max. 50 participants
