BIOCEL is led by Clúster de Materials Avançats and co-lead by MODACC, the Fundació Privada per a la Innovació Tèxtil (FITEX), DAN*NA, higher education school LCI and the School of Design and Engineering ELISAVA (UVic-UCC).

The need for a paradigm shift in the textile industry has been widely promoted in response to the publication of reports on the negative impacts, responsible for 20% of global drinking water pollution, 10% of global carbon emissions, the incineration of 87% of clothing and the release of microplastics into the environment.

The BIOCEL proposal focuses on the following three pillars:

                1. New sustainable raw material production processes and on-demand production.

                2. Virtual fashion and new design software.

                3. Digital manufacturing of soft products.

Thus, BIOCEL is an industrial research project to develop a new textile production system consisting of a digitally controlled bio-manufacturing process, a bio-based filament, a digitization platform service and a knitted textile production service with BIOCEL filament.

The main objective is to explore the potential of biotechnology to develop more sustainable and healthier materials more sustainable and healthy materials for application to the textile sector following the European Strategy for a circular and sustainable textile, as well as the development of advanced production technologies in line with the digital transformation in the value chain of advanced materials for application to the textile and fashion industry.

The project's expected results are obtaining different BIOCEL functional filaments and their characterization, a virtual fashion collection using BIOCEL as an aesthetic and biodegradable material, and a knitted textile sample book with BIOCEL filament.

Biocel is led by Clúster de Materials Avançats, and co-lead by MODACC, the Fundació Privada per a la Innovació Tèxtil  (FITEX), DAN*NA, higher education school LCI and the School of Design and Engineering ELISAVA (UVic-UCC).

The project is funded by the Ministry of  Industry, Trade and Tourism through the support programme of Agrupaciones  Empresariales Innovadoras.