At its upcoming media briefing on April 19, 2022, the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) will showcase and demonstrate 9 leading-edge innovations from the Special Edition 2022 Inventions Geneva Evaluation Days, including 3 promising projects which received the ‘Gold Medal’ and six ‘Silver Medal’ titled projects.

The projects that bagged the gold medal include: ‘Developing a Customized Comfort Bra to Aid.’ ‘Recovery from Mastectomy,’ ‘Regenerating Bio-based Leather from Leather Waste,’ and ‘Flexible Loop Structure Technology.’

The projects that bagged the Silver Medal include: ‘A Sustainable Approach of Growing Extra Long Staple (ELS),’ ‘Cotton: Vertical Hydroponic Cultivation (VHC),’ ‘Acousweep: An innovative MicroplasticFibre Separation,’ ‘System Using Sweeping Acoustic Waves,’ ‘Removal of Indigo Dye in Denim Plant Wastewater by CO2- Capturing Macroalgae,’ ‘Waterless Solid State Decolourization and Durability, etc