Ecotextile News e-newsletter 23.12.15

By Stacey Dove
23 December 2015

Ecotextile News e-bulletin

Wednesday 23 December 2015

Season’s Greetings to our readers

As we close down for the Christmas period we’d like to extend ‘Season’s Greetings’ to all of our readers, wish everyone all the very best for 2016 and as usual at this time of year, we can reveal our top five ‘most read’ stories in the last 12 months.

Südwolle launches wool plasma treatment

The German wool and worsted yarn spinner, Südwolle Group, has officially launched a new Plasma-based technology for treating wool fibres.

Apparel brands release industry RSL

A group of leading global apparel brands, including adidas, C&A, H&M, Hugo Boss, Levi Strauss, Nike and Puma have released a newly developed Restricted Substances List (RSL).

1,000s of Bangladesh factories operating “in the shadows”

A new US report claims almost three million garment workers in Bangladesh continue to be excluded from any international safety-improvement initiatives, with thousands of factories still operating “in the shadows.”

Invitation to purchase assets

The Bowra Group is seeking offers to purchase the assets of Crailar or to make an investment in the company to allow it to achieve profitable production as an alternative to a sale of assets.

Assets for sale include:

* Intellectual property consisting of patents, trademarks, and proprietary knowledge

* Inventory of fibre products and equipment for production of fibre products located in South Carolina, USA

* Fibre supply agreements

The deadline to submit offers is 5 January 2016.

NEXT – Assistant Textile Chemical and Restricted Substance Co-ordinator

Working in the Product Legislation Team you’ll help to ensure Next are complying with all UK, European and global legislation relating to chemicals and restricted substances.

BOLT THREADS – Lead Scientist/Engineer – Fibre Spinning

Bolt Threads is looking for a hands-on scientist or engineer to play a key role on a multidisciplinary team leading process development, optimisation, and scale-up of its novel silk fibre spinning processes to manufacture novel silk protein fibres for the textiles and consumer apparel industry.

Textile industry companies and recruiters can also search Careers in Textiles for their latest talent. Make sure you’re found. Upload your CV today.

Special offers on textile industry research

Multi-buy discounts are now available on MCL Global’s sustainable textiles industry research insights, including Detox Deconstructed, Closing The Loop, and Sustainable Sourcing Map.

All packages also include a FREE one-year subscription (worth £199) to Textile Evolution (T.EVO), a new bi-monthly printed magazine to be launched in 2016, covering the global technical textiles and high performance apparel markets.

Waste to wardrobe

Efforts to ‘close the loop’ in the textile industry – a process whereby textile products, fabrics, and fibres are infinitely ‘cycled’ through connected loops – are rapidly gathering pace.

LATEST ISSUE: Ecotextile News Dec/Jan 2016

Planet Textiles 2016 teams up with SAC, Proposals by the European Commission to potentially ban a list of nearly 300 chemicals could have profound implications for the textile industry, argues Phil Patterson, New DWR research unveiled, Brands fall foul in China rankings, Greenpeace hints at strategy change, Further progress on closing the loop, Recycled polyester focus in Taiwan, Did Patagonia make right call on Ovis 21? Apparel industry bids to harmonise worker standards, Sustainable Apparel Coalition’s Jason Kibbey on avoiding the compliance trap, Two minutes with… Stacy Flynn, CEO, Evrnu, Cotton Horizons – a regular feature on cotton and sustainability from cotton expert Simon Ferrigno, and all the latest news, insight, and analysis.

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The Ecotextile News 2016 media kit is now available. Email [email protected] for more information.