Materials & Manufacturing
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Thursday, 08 June 2023Inditex, Jeanologia team up on microfibres
MILAN - Zara owner Inditex and denim technology firm Jeanologia have teamed up to develop a new industrial pretreatment aimed at reducing microfibre shedding from textiles. The 'Air Fiber Washer' claims to be the first industrial air system to… -
Wednesday, 07 June 2023More funds for Ecovative mycelium-based tech
GREEN ISLAND – Textile innovator Ecovative has raised over US$30 million after closing a series E round of funding to scale its mycelium-based technology that’s used to make textile and leather alternatives. The fundraising round was led by Viking… -
Wednesday, 07 June 2023Recycled polyester produced from used garments
BERGAMO – A new pilot project claims to have successfully produced new garments from recycled polyester recovered from post-consumer textile waste. Italian synthetic fibre producer Radici Group teamed up with Austrian textile recycling machinery… -
Wednesday, 07 June 2023Partners aim to scale regenerated polyester
LOS ANGELES – Ambercycle, the US company that separates polyester-blended materials and chemically recycles them to yield virgin-grade product, has formed a new strategic partnership with Taiwan-based Shinkong Synthetic Fibers Corporation. The two… -
Tuesday, 06 June 2023Brand launches microalgae wicking finish
SALT LAKE CITY / ALAMEDA - Outdoor brand WNDR Alpine has launched a new range of activewear featuring microalgae-based moisture-wicking which claims to offer an 80% lower carbon footprint. WNDR Alpine, which was launched by the biotechnology company… -
Tuesday, 06 June 2023Bangladesh's garment industry 'must transform'
DHAKA - Bangladesh's garment industry needs to transform itself with a focus on reducing negative impacts on the environment and its workers if it is to survive, according to a new report from PriceWaterhouseCooper (PwC). The country is the world's… -
Tuesday, 06 June 2023GOTS to monitor organic cotton from space
STUTTGART – The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has launched a 'world-first' initiative with the European Space Agency (ESA) and artificial intelligence (AI) company Marple to use remote satellite monitoring in organic cotton certification.… -
Monday, 05 June 2023Armani launches regenerative cotton project
MILAN – The Armani Group has launched a new project on regenerative cotton in southern Italy to improve landscape diversity, save water, improve soils and encourage biodiversity. The luxury fashion house will work with King Charles III’s Sustainable… -
Monday, 05 June 2023Collaboration aims to support African cotton
ABIDJAN – A new joint initiative from Cotton made in Africa and the African Cotton Foundation was founded at a recent meeting in the Ivory Coast that hosted over 40 agricultural advisors from Africa. The new ‘Innovations Club’ aims to find the most… -
Monday, 05 June 2023New figure put on fashion's carbon footprint
SAN FRANCISCO – New analysis from the Apparel Impact Institute (Aii) initiative has put a new figure on the size of the fashion industry's carbon footprint which claims to be the most accurate produced to date. Climate change consultant Michael… -
Saturday, 03 June 2023Polyester bio-recycling secures funding boost
CLERMONT-FERRAND – Biotech company, Carbios, has secured over €150 million (US$160M) towards the building of the ‘world’s first’ polyester (PET) bio-recycling plant, through French government support and its partnership with global synthetic fibre… -
Friday, 02 June 2023UNEP sets out roadmap for textile industry
NEW YORK - A new report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) aims to set out a roadmap for sustainability and circularity in the global textile value chain. It focuses on three priority areas which it says are key to driving forward… -
Thursday, 01 June 2023Policy Hub circularity report focuses on EPR
BRUSSELS - The Policy Hub industry initiative has launched a new report in a bid to support the transition towards a more circular textiles industry in the European Union (EU). Written by consultants Eunomia, it focuses on the role of extended… -
Thursday, 01 June 2023Accelerating Circularity to launch playbook
NEW YORK – The Accelerating Circularity initiative is to launch a textile-to-textile recycling playbook at this month's Circularity 23 conference in Seattle. It says the playbook is designed as an introductory guide to implement circular systems to… -
Wednesday, 31 May 2023CottonConnect, Haelixa link on traceability
LONDON / Zurich – CottonConnect has linked up with DNA-marking specialist Haelixa for a partnership which combines their digital and physical traceability solutions. The partnership, launched with yarn from a Cotton Connect pilot project in… -
Wednesday, 31 May 2023Project to reduce Cambodia's textile waste
PHNOM PENH - A new initiative has been launched to reduce the 140,000 tonnes of textile waste produced by the Cambodian garment industry every year. The Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) initiative and the German development agency GIZ are recuiting… -
Tuesday, 30 May 2023Firm spins spider silk–cotton composite yarn
ANN ARBOR – US research firm Kraig Labs has spun its first composite bio-engineered spider silk and Pima cotton yarn as it looks to advance the genetics and robustness of its technology for future textile manufacture. The production of these… -
Friday, 26 May 2023Blocktexx teams up with social enterprise
LOGANHOLME – Australian textile recycler, BlockTexx, has teamed up with the HELP Enterprises social initiative as it looks to convert 50,000 tonnes of textiles into new raw materials over the next four years. The partnership has already seen HELP… -
Thursday, 25 May 2023Bio-based synthetic fibres 'did not degrade'
SAN DIEGO - Bio-based synthetic textiles and blended fibres containing synthetics do not degrade in the ocean as quickly as has been claimed, according to a new scientific study. Researchers at the University of California San Diego's Scripps… -
Thursday, 25 May 2023H&M, Kering, LVMH back new nature targets
GLOBAL - The Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) has launched the world’s first science-based targets for nature, with Swedish fashion giant H&M and French luxury groups Kering and LVMH among the first signatories. SBTN, a coalition of nearly 50… -
Wednesday, 24 May 2023Soex partners with DBL-Böge to recycle workwear
AHRENSBURG – Textile recycling specialist Soex will take back used workwear from Germany-based rental service DBL-Böge to save some 25 tonnes of clothing from being incinerated per year. Old and discarded workwear from DBL Böge is grouped by colour… -
Wednesday, 24 May 2023Patagonia zips dyed with waste vegetable oil
BERGAMO – Italian chemical supplier Erca has teamed up with Patagonia and zip supplier YKK to use its textile auxiliaries derived from waste vegetable oil to aid in polyester dyeing. The Italian company’s ‘Revecol’ branded chemical range – used as… -
Wednesday, 24 May 2023RGE refutes deforestation allegations
SINGAPORE - Viscose giant Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) has "categorically refuted" claims in a new report linking it to deforestation in its supply chain and to a huge new pulp plant in Indonesia which environmentalists say could threaten tropical… -
Tuesday, 23 May 2023Good Fashion Fund signs MoU in India
COIMBATORE - The Good Fashion Fund - an investment programme set up by Fashion for Good and the Laudes Foundation - has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to help textile factories become more sustainable in India. It focuses on the city of… -
Tuesday, 23 May 2023Viscose giant accused of deforestation links
JAKARTA - Royal Golden Eagle (RGE), the world's largest producer of viscose fibre, is accused of "hidden links" to a huge new pulp plant in Indonesia which could threaten tropical rainforests, in a new report from Greenpeace. The 'Pulping Borneo'… -
Monday, 22 May 2023Birla Cellulose partners with TextileGenesis
MUMBAI – Indian viscose manufacturer Birla Cellulose has partnered with blockchain specialist TextileGenesis to track and verify the use of sustainable fibres in its supply chain. Birla Cellulose, the pulp and fibre business of the Aditya Birla… -
Thursday, 18 May 2023Faster progress needed on circular economy
BRUSSELS - Faster progress is needed on reducing both consumption and waste to achieve a more circular economy in the European Union (EU), according to a new report. The European Commission’s revised circular economy monitoring framework - published… -
Thursday, 18 May 2023Tool allows fabric roll level traceability
PORTO – A Portuguese company known for using technology to detect real-time textile defects on circular knitting machines has introduced a new tool for textile traceability.Smartex, which supplies hardware and software solutions to textile… -
Thursday, 18 May 2023Talks on new Dutch Agreement end in failure
AMSTERDAM - Negotiations to set up a successor organisation to the former Dutch Agreement on Sustainable Garments and Textile (AGT) have ended in failure. The Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER) confirmed that the talks had ended… -
Wednesday, 17 May 2023Xeros signs 10 year deal
ROTHERHAM - Xeros Technology Group, a manufacturer of textile technologies, has signed a 10-year worldwide non-exclusive license and distribution agreement for its garment finishing technology with KRM Tekstil Boya San, a Turkish specialist in… -
Tuesday, 16 May 2023Higg rebrands as Worldly; launches new tool
SAN FRANCISCO – Higg, the technology partner of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, is rebranding under a new name - Worldly - under which it will release new products which are not part of the Higg Index suite of tools. CEO Jason Kibbey said part of… -
Monday, 15 May 2023Better Cotton wants flexible US Green Guides
LONDON - The Better Cotton initiative is urging the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to be flexible in its review of its 'Green Guides' which aim to help companies avoid making misleading environmental claims to consumers Better Cotton welcomes the… -
Monday, 15 May 2023Nanollose files new patent application
PERTH – Australian textile innovator Nanollose has filed a new patent application for what it deems a key breakthrough in its work to produce microbial cellulose from organic food and beverage waste. The application - entitled '‘Method for… -
Friday, 12 May 2023Tool created to assess biodiversity footprint
HELSINKI - Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä have developed a method for corporations to calculate their biodiversity footprint which they plan to make freely available to all companies and organisations. The researchers drew up the… -
Friday, 12 May 2023Acrylic fibre has 75% recycled content
BANGKOK – A recycled acrylic fibre made by Thai Acrylic Fibre Co. Ltd that contains 75% recycled content has been certified to the Global Recycled Standard and is said to meet Bluesign Approved criteria. Previously, the company’s ‘Regel’ acrylic… -
Thursday, 11 May 2023Lenzing, Sodra back textile recycling project
LENZING / VÄXJÖ – Austrian fibre manufacturer Lenzing and Swedish pulp giant Södra are part of a coalition behind a new initiative to collect used clothing and household textiles for recycling back into new fibres. Lenzing’s logistics and sorting… -
Thursday, 11 May 2023Digital textile printer slashes water use
KYOTO – Japanese industrial conglomerate Kyocera will reveal a new ‘sustainable’ range of digital textile inkjet printers next month at the upcoming ITMA 2023 in Milan, which claims to dramatically reduce water usage in textile printing. The new… -
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Circularity research 'overlooks Global South'
GENEVA - Current research on the transition to a circular economy has failed to address the impact on people in developing countries in the Global South, according to a new report. Entitled 'Decent Work in the Circular Economy', the study was… -
Wednesday, 10 May 2023Renewcell agrees deal with TextileGenesis
STOCKHOLM – Swedish textile recycler Renewcell has announced an agreement with blockchain specialist TextileGenesis aimed at providing full traceability for its Circulose pulp. Renewcell has already trialled TextileGenesis's digital token technology… -
Friday, 05 May 2023Kering trials low-impact ultrasonic dyeing
PARIS – Kering has signed a deal with Sonovia and PureDenim to install and test out ultrasonic indigo yarn dyeing technology in the denim production lines of its fashion houses. Under the agreement, Kering will appraise the technology as part of a… -
Thursday, 04 May 2023Scientists claim spider silk breakthrough
ST LOUIS - Scientists claim they have made a significant breakthrough in the production of synthetic spider silk which could lead to its use in textiles at scale. A team at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St Louis… -
Wednesday, 03 May 2023Sri Lankan exporters fear loss of EU status
COLOMBO - Investments by garment manufacturers in the formerly war-torn north of Sri Lanka, will be jeopardised if the country loses preferential trading privileges with the European Union (EU), according to the Joint Apparel Association Forum… -
Tuesday, 02 May 2023Korean JV aims to close polyester loop in Asia
MONTREAL – Loop Industries, which says it can chemically recycle low-grade polyester infinitely, has signed a joint venture with a subsidiary of the Korean chemical giant SK Group to deploy Loop’s technology in Asia through several new manufacturing… -
Tuesday, 02 May 2023Can clean hydrogen power textile finishing?
MÖNCHENGLADBACH – At the upcoming ITMA 2023, textile machinery firm Monforts will reveal details of a joint project sponsored by the German government on the potential to use ‘green’ hydrogen as a new energy source for textile finishing, drying, and… -
Tuesday, 02 May 2023HKRITA wins nine medals at inventions event
GENEVA - The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has won nine awards at the International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. HKRITA's awards at the event include a 'gold medal with congratulations of the jury' along with… -
Friday, 28 April 2023Fabric tester recycles water
HALIFAX – UK-based James Heal has created a new testing solution for fabric water repellency that significantly reduces the volume of wastewater and energy consumption during the established Bundesmann test method. The company says it next… -
Friday, 28 April 2023Textile recycling plant planned for Morocco
RABAT - Textile company Reciclados Tangier has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Moroccan Ministry of Industry and Trade and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) to establish a textile recycling factory. The new US$68.5… -
Thursday, 27 April 2023Indian textile waste project to expand
BENGALURU - A partnership backed by the H&M Foundation to develop circular textiles practices, while improving the lives of 20,000 textile waste pickers in India, has welcomed two new partners on board. The new partners in the multi-year Saamuhika… -
Wednesday, 26 April 2023HKRITA signs MoUs with research partners
HONG KONG - The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited (HKRITA) has signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with Japan's Shinshu University and Seiko Epson Corporation. The agreements aim to promote creative research… -
Tuesday, 25 April 2023Better Cotton to unveil physical traceability
LONDON - The Better Cotton initiative will next month unveil its proposals to offer full physical traceability of its cotton across the whole supply chain. The organisation will publish a revised version of its Better Cotton Chain of Custody…
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