Industrial Area
Functional Textiles
Research of functional textiles that allow for more efficient solutions in terms of costs and functional and structural properties
Eurecat’s Functional Textiles Unit investigates functional textiles that allow for more efficient solutions in terms of costs and functional and structural properties, given the limitations inherent in traditional technologies, which are generally rigid and expensive.
Design and prototyping
- Biosensors.
- Posture and movement monitoring.
- Heating and lighting systems, sound actuators.
Design and industrialisation
- Textile structures for various applications.
- Smart textiles with stimuli-responsive biopolymers.
- Functional materials in complex fabric structures.
Materials and structures
- Preformed reinforced textiles to optimise structures and processes.
- Material hybridisation to optimise performance.
- Design of textile solutions to optimise composite structure manufacturing procedures through direct heat transfer.
Services
Studies
- Viability study.
- Concept testing.
Prototyping
- Functional prototype.
- Industrialisation.
- Short series.
Audit
- Process studies and auditing.
- Technical analysis of textile samples.
Training
- General courses.
- Specialised courses for companies.
Reimagine Textile is a cooperation network that connects the main players in the textile industry
Reimagine Textile is an innovation programme aimed at companies of any size, designers and organizations that want to promote the textile productive capacity of the territory.
Launched by Eurecat, the TecnoCampus Mataró and the Research and Textile Technology Transfer Centre of Canet de Mar, Reimagine Textile aims to be a key player in this revolution, bringing together textile, technology, innovation, talent, new business models, new skills, design and digitalisation.
Representative sectors
Contact
Virginia García
Director of Functional Textiles Unit at Eurecat
Virginia García graduated from the University de Malaga as a telecommunications engineer and specialises in communications.
Her career began at the company AT4Wireless, where she worked in the radiofrequency communications department and specialised in implementing RFID technology in various areas of application. The users of this RFID technology varied from industrial units to consumers. She later worked at the CETEMMSA technological centre as a project manager, successfully managing research projects in ambient assisted living and eHealth. She then progressed to become a product manager for CETEMMSA. This involved the development of thermoelectric textile solutions, so she focused on in the integration of electronics into textiles and the selection of the appropriate conductive fibres for the textile solutions. CETEMMSA later merged with other Catalan technological centres and Eurecat was born.
Virginia was therefore chosen to lead research and development in the Functional Textiles Department at Eurecat. This department combines knowledge of textile structures with that of new materials. It also works on the integration of electronics into textiles and the development of textile wearable technology and multifunctional textiles.
- Tel. + 34 600 56 70 00
- virginia.garcia@eurecat.org
Outstanding projects
Textile innovation with a holistic and systemic approach towards the creation of a community market for circular garments produced locally from bio-based waste.
Substitution of traditional rigid materials with high-strength inflatable tissues and sensor films to create intelligent, soft and light fish that help the human being.
Development, testing and validation of best and forthcoming practices in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
Sucess stories
News
Eurecat creates biodegradable plastic derived from natural sources for textile manufacturing
The Eurecat technology centre has created an innovative formulation of polylactic acid, a biodegradable plastic derived from natural sources [...]
Spin-off Aracne, specialising in predictive systems and quality control of fabric, winner in the Green Digitalisation Category at the European Digital Innovation Hubs Awards
The spin-off Aracne, set up by the Eurecat technology centre and textile machinery manufacturer Canmartex and specialising in the [...]
Artificial intelligence and robotics drive the transformation of the textile industry
Artificial intelligence and robotics are driving the transformation of the textile industry as demonstrated during a special session on [...]
Catalan firm Marina Textil partners with Eurecat to create a new fabric harnessing 88 percent of waste previously thrown away
Catalan firm Marina Textil has partnered up with the Eurecat technology centre to roll out a circular economy project [...]
Eurecat showcases new artificial intelligence and photonics system to predict textile production defects
At the IOT Solutions World Congress, the Eurecat technology centre is showcasing an innovation developed in partnership with Canmartex [...]
Canmartex and Eurecat devise a new generation of automated knitting machines with a smaller carbon footprint
Canmartex and the Eurecat technology centre are pioneering a new generation of circular knitting machines, eco-designed to reduce their [...]
