Financed by a subsidy of the state, the research and collective actions programmes of CTTN is very closly linked to the needs of the professionnal textile care sector.

CTTN has as first role to develop every year collective actions in connexion with the demand of the professionnal and industrial textile care.

These collective actions are integrate to an annual programme validate by the laundry and drycleaing sector. Some issues are linked to the textile and clothing industry as its production is nothing else than the filed of work of the cleaning and textile care.

The main issues of these collective actions programme are :

• cleaning technologie ;
• textiles, clothes and cleaning ;

These issues are of course linked to important topics as productivity, organization, environment, regulation compliance, energy monitoring, quality and hygien management, technical and economical aspect.

Collective actions include of course technology survey, standardization and dissemination.