Trace – a transition towards circular economy

Contributing to Denmark achieving the national climate goals within
the circular economy before 2050 with a focus on plastics and textiles.

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Happy Holidays

As the holiday season approaches, the Trace Partnership wants to take a moment to reflect and express our sincere gratitude for your involvement in the partnership and the circular transition over this past year.

Wishing you happy holidays and a happy new year!

20 Dec 2024

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Save The Date

Join us at the Trace Pool 4 Conference on March 25th 2025 at Design School Kolding, as we create new projects within the framework of the Trace partnership.

06 Nov 2024

Potentially Breaktrough for PETfection

The TRACE project, named PETfection, has made significant progress toward converting PET from household plastic waste into high-quality recycled PET (rPET).

27 Sep 2024

New insights from the project Mass Customisation

'If we are closer to the consumers, we will know what should not be produced in advance

Ideally, it would be best if you only produce what has already been sold,' says project manager Anne Louise Bang. The Mass Customisation project aims to utilize consumer knowledge rather than relying solely on trends and assumptions about consumers. See the results so far."

26 Sep 2024

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Plastics

Five projects are submitted for the plastic track. The projects have a strong focus on the industrial ecosystem as this is representing a critical element of the value-chain

Textiles

Five projects are submitted for the textiles track, pool 1. These show both strong independent agency and a great potential for cross- pollination and synergies.

Common

Even though the four projects are independent of each other, there are potential synergies that the partnership will explore during execution of the projects.

The goal

At TRACE/Innomission 4 our goal is to contribute to Denmark reaching the national climate goals within circular economy with a focus on plastics and textiles by 2050. We want to create anational "laboratory" that sets new, groundbreaking frameworks for systemic development and innovation and provides tools and processes to convert traditional linear production and consumption to circular solutions.

The transition must be carried out in an ambitious partnership between companies and the most talented national and international researchers in close collaboration with authorities and the rest of society.

Innovation and technology are part of Danish companies' DNA, and we have experience that knowledge sharing, collaboration and development naturally belong together and can create great results. This means that together we can strengthen climate and environmental efforts and at the same time further accelerate the creation of jobs and the export of technologies and business models.