Recent meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.
Mission & Goals
KIUD transforms problematic textile waste into reusable packaging materials for e-commerce, offering a scalable, environment-friendly alternative to cardboard and plastic boards - helping businesses lower packaging costs while significantly reducing environmental impact. Through a patented, water- and chemical-free mechanical process, KIUD converts post-industrial and post-consumer textile waste into rigid packaging via fiberizing, dry-forming, thermo-finishing, and standard converting methods. The resulting material carries an 82% lower CO₂ footprint than cardboard, is compatible with existing packaging infrastructure, and is reusable up to 20 times without compromising performance or aesthetics. KIUD's vision is to make textile waste a mainstream packaging material and enable a truly circular packaging and textile system at industrial scale.
EU Legislative Interests
1. Official recognition and activation of EWC code 15 01 09 (Textile Packaging) KIUD calls for a clarified EU-level interpretation of this existing waste code to give Member States the confidence to implement it consistently for packaging made primarily of textile fibres, including non-woven materials. 2. Permission for textile packaging to enter textile waste streams (EWC 20 01 11) under defined conditions Enabling textile-based packaging to be sorted into textile waste streams would support proper quality control, increase volumes available for fibre-to-fibre and non-woven recycling, reduce incineration of recyclable materials, and help develop a European recycling market for textile waste. 3. Recognition of textile-based packaging in PPWR guidance KIUD requests an explicit statement in Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) guidance that textile-based packaging is a desirable and supported material category. 4. Market entry pathways for innovative materials under PPWR Regulatory requirements should ensure that new sustainable materials have a realistic pathway to market entry and scale. KIUD's material - made from post-industrial synthetic textile waste, primarily polyester - derives its environmental value from extending the life of waste and displacing virgin resources through reuse. Blanket restrictions on materials of synthetic or plastic origin risk penalising products that actively divert European waste from incineration. With approximately 60% of textiles today being synthetic - a share projected to reach 70% by 2030 - this waste stream is not diminishing. EU policy should recognise and favour applications that put it to productive use.
Communication Activities
In Tallinn, participation of a roundtable with EU Commisioner Jessika Roswall on circular economy and packaging.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Planet Reuse, New ERA E-commerce WG