Researchers at the Department of Textile and Paper Engineering take an active part in several national and international textile and paper research projects (EURATEX, MedTex, IPCC-BAT’s, the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Union, COST, TEMPUS, the Interministerial Science and Technology Commission, etc.).

It has ample experience in conducting studies, analyses and reports relating to the textile and paper sector, for which it has six laboratories and workshops equipped to perform colorimetry, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, photomicroscopy, irregularity testing of mass and tailorability, high performance dynamometry and electronic microscopy, and pilot plants for spinning, weaving and industrial manufacturing. It also has several computer-aided design (CAD) systems for spinning, weaving and pattern making. In the area of paper, it has five laboratories equipped with an oxygen reactor, an ozone generator, a zetametre, an Elrepho and a climatic chamber.