Barcelona and Portugal get to know the ADELANTE SEDA Project
At the 4th edition of the International Conference on Natural Fibers, #ICNF19, which was held in the city of Porto, Portugal, Engineer Patricia Marino, technical coordinator of the SEDA Project, gave a presentation on the contribution to poverty reduction through sustainable sericulture with added local value and a gender focus, and provided an overview of the structure created by the National Institute of Industrial Technology to coordinate a consortium of 9 institutions from 7 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Italy), co-financed by the European Union through the ADELANTE Programme.
Within the framework of the conferences, the engineer visited the laboratories of the University of Minho, its nanotechnology centre, and held meetings with the #Fibrenamics group.
Natural fibres are a renewable resource par excellence, by nature and man for centuries. The significant growth in the use of synthetic non-renewable and non-biodegradable materials together with the emission of greenhouse gases is currently a great concern for the environment and future generations. In this context, the processing of #naturalfibres generates waste that is mostly #organic and can be reused.
As part of the study mission, the engineer also visited the city of Barcelona to participate in the largest world fair of textile technology, #ITMA2019, where Industry 4.0 and the new generation of machinery and innovations for the textile industry were at the heart of the debates to outline a horizon of new challenges and work perspectives.
