News - Fibrenamics

25 Feb 2025News

Fibrenamics showcases disruptive innovations in composites at JEC World 2025

Fibrenamics, the Institute of Innovation in Fibrous and Composite Materials, will participate in JEC World 2025, the largest international trade fair dedicated to composite materials. The event will take place at the Paris-Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, France, from March 4 to 6.

10 Feb 2025News

BornRecycled: The future of school furniture is sustainable and circular

How can we reduce the environmental impact of school furniture production? And how can we transform waste into sustainable materials? These are some of the questions that the BornRecycled project aims to answer by bringing innovative solutions to the school furniture industry through waste valorization.

10 Jan 2023News

Groundbreaking Textile Innovation Fights Environmental Issue Caused by Cotton Cultivation

Fibrenamics, a leading institute for fiber-based solutions and composites, announced the success of the TerryPlanet project, in partnership with Mundotêxtil. The project, which aimed to develop innovative terry cloth based on circular economy principles, was a major step towards exploring sustainable strategies in the production of terry cloth, a type of structure often used in bath towels.

12 Sep 2022News

"The price of recycled raw materials often has a price that makes the final product economically unviable"

In an interview with Fibrenamics, Cláudia Costa, R&D Manager at Surforma, expresses her opinion on issues such as product biodegradability and circularity of waste in companies.

21 Jul 2022News

"We Are Facing an Industrial Revolution"

In exclusive for Fibrenamics, José Manuel Ribeiro, LIPOR's Chairman of the Board of Directors answer several questions about the potentiality of waste and product circularity, generated by several industrial sectors.

19 May 2022News

Rui Berkemeier: "The problem is the systematic non-compliance of countries with European directives, as is the case of Portugal"

Rui Berkemeier analyzed, together with Raul Fangueiro during the 2nd Episode of the Podcast From Science To People, the new package of actions from the European Commission, regarding waste management and the regulation of technical communication from companies about their products.

12 May 2022News

"Plastic waste is increasingly polluting the oceans and by 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans"

Exclusively for Fibrenamics, Célia Vilas Boas, Executive Director of BioRumo, gives answers to several questions about sustainability in various sectors of activity. This article corresponds to the 1st part of this interview.

11 May 2022News

Non-Urban Waste Management in Portugal

From the point of view of the valorization of new types of industrial waste, Carlos Mota, Project Manager at Fibrenamics, confessed, during the Webinar on Waste Management, that it is a challenge to implement the various requests made by the companies, in order to find solutions for different types of materials.

10 May 2022News

Waste Recovery: The Road to Sustainability

The path, in our country, to true economic and environmental sustainability is through the use of discarded materials either in industrial processes, services, and in our homes.