One day to go: PETCORE EUROPE – EU Polyester Textile Circularity Webinar: “Unlocking Polyester Textiles Circularity in Europe: Regulation, Infrastructure and Investments”

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The agenda presented below highlights a shared ambition: to coordinate Europe’s transition towards true polyester textile circularity, by aligning EU regulatory developments, real industrial success models, retail engagement, and the investment conditions required for deployment at scale.

The preliminary agenda & speakers can be seen right here.

1. Regulation as the backbone of the transition

The opening session positions a core question: How Europe ​ is enabling circularity?
​By focusing on regulatory steering and the prerequisites for deploying advanced polyester recycling technologies, the session will clarify:

A. how existing EU policies are shaping the emerging ecosystem,

B. where bottlenecks still prevent scale-up and investment,

C. what enabling conditions are needed for large-scale EU industrial deployment.

This provides essential framing to connect political ambition with industrial feasibility.

2. Demonstrated European success stories

The session on “EU Implementation Success Models” shows that polyester circularity is ready to being built in practice across Europe.
​The examples featured — ranging from an EPR scheme supporting R&D, to a fully integrated industrial model covering sorting–preparation–spinning–weaving, to a depolymerisation technology entering industrial rollout — demonstrate the following:

When regulatory, technical and financial conditions align, Europe is fully capable of delivering industrial circularity at scale.

These concrete cases offer replicable models for other Member States.

3. Investment expectations and requirements

The investment block of the agenda provides essential visibility for market actors. Institutional and private investors will outline:

A. the conditions they require to deploy capital across Europe,

B. the key elements needed to secure financing — regulatory clarity, feedstock visibility, scalable industrial models, traceability,

C. the opportunities linked to unlocking uncaptured feedstock streams.

The goal is clear: to define what the financial ecosystem needs in order to support the industrialisation of textile circularity.

4. Retail engagement: the emerging decisive factor

The agenda also places a specific focus on retail.
​Retailers play a determining role in enabling circularity through product design choices, sourcing decisions, collection pathways and partnerships with recyclers.

This session will shed light on an essential reality: Europe will not achieve textile circularity without the active engagement of the retail sector.

5. Connecting strategy to technology: industrial updates

The block dedicated to 20 industrial technology updates provides an up-to-date panorama of the solutions currently available.
​It enables participants to:

A. identify technologies ready for scale-up,

B. understand remaining deployment needs,

C. strengthen collaboration between technology providers, recyclers, brands, investors and policymakers.

This is the link between strategic vision and operational capability.

6. Coordination, platforms and EU-level next steps

The final part of the programme focuses on alignment and coordination at EU level.
​It will address:

A. the Brussels mapping exercise,

B. the policy-industry alignment required for coherent deployment,

C. the upcoming actions of the EU-level platform dedicated to polyester circularity.

The overall aim of this event is to build a shared action framework, bringing together regulators, industry, investors and retailers so that the EU can turn its circularity ambitions into an integrated, competitive and fully operational textile ecosystem.

Meet our keynote speakers: