Wearing Wood – The World of Wood-based Textiles
Lectures given at the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize Symposium held in Stockholm on 11 October 2022. Watch the complete broadcast here
Moderator: Prof. Orlando Rojas, Member of the Prize Selection Committee, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Mr. Marcus Wallenberg, Chairman of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation
Ioncell and Its Possible Place in the Textile Industry Given the Particular Challenges of Climate Change
Professor Herbert Sixta, Austria, co-recipient of the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland
Viable Fibre Raw-materials and Their Impacts on Dissolution of Cellulose for Man-made Fibre Spinning
Dr. Frank Meister, TITK, Thuringian Institute for Textile & Plastics Research, Rudolstadt, Germany
Announcement of Winner of the Young Researchers’ 3MT presentations
Presenter: Professor Joris Van Acker, Member of the Prize Selection Committee, Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium
H&M Group Circular Innovation Lab – Future Material Need in the Textile Industry
Mr. Martin Ekenbark, Lead – Circular Innovation Lab, H&M Group, Stockholm, Sweden
The New EU Textiles Strategy and Its Impact on Wood-based Textiles
Director Dirk Vantyghem, EURATEX, Brussels, Belgium
Technoeconomics and Scale-up
CEO Niklas von Weymarn, Metsä Spring Oy, Helsinki, Finland
Q&A with the laureates of the 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize
Moderated by Prof. Orlando Rojas
