Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Swedish Apparel Retailer H&M Moves Towards Textile Circularity

Textile Insights March 7, 2024

H&M Group and Vargas Holding launched Syre, a new initiative to manufacture textile-to-textile recycled polyester fibre. Syre is also backed by TPG Rise Climate and aims to rapidly scale textile-to-textile recycling of polyester and contribute to a more sustainable textile industry. H&M

Policies

Selling Machine Made Products As Handmade Will Be Penalised

Textile Insights March 7, 2024

Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal warned of firm action against those selling machine-made products under the ‘Handmade in India’ label. Piyush Goyal said this during his interaction with beneficiaries of the textile sector and urged them to be vocal for local and take local to global. Also present during the interaction were Minister of State for […]

Sustainability

YKK Achieves Highest ‘A List’ Rating In 2023 CDP Survey

Textile Insights March 7, 2024

Garment accessories manufacturer YKK Corporation has for the first time achieved the highest ‘A List’ rating in the 2023 Climate Change survey conducted by environmental disclosure nonprofit, CDP. CDP evaluated over 21,000 companies based on information reported through its climate change, deforestation, and water security questionnaires. “Just under 400 or 2 percent of

Machinery

Rieter Bags Big Order For Combers & Draw Frames From Chinese Mill

Textile Insights March 7, 2024

Rieter has received an order for the first batch of Rieter technologies amounting to around CHF 62 million from Shanghai Digital Intelligence World Industrial Technology Group Co., Ltd. (DIW). Rieter also signed a partnership with DIW to develop intelligent yarn manufacturing technology that utilises digitisation and automation to minimise conversion costs and maximise

Industry

Bangla Engineers Identify Challenges Impacting Textile & Apparel Sector

Textile Insights March 6, 2024

A group of 40 top Bangladeshi textile engineers and entrepreneurs have identified various challenges, inhibiting the growth of the textile and apparel industry in the country. The engineers met in Dhaka on March 3 under the banner of Textile Engineers – Entrepreneurs. This group identified skills gap, trust deficit between employers and employees, rising operational […]

Industry

Piyush Goyal Presents MATEXIL Awards In Various Categories

Textile Insights March 6, 2024

Manmade and Technical Textiles Export Promotion Council (MATEXIL) formerly SRTEPC presented various awards in various categories for 2022-23 Textiles Minister Piyush Goyal presented the awards to the winners and said that MATEXIL has done tremendous work and helped Indian textile exports reach more than 150 countries in the last 70 years. Rakesh Mehra received the […]

Dyes & Chemicals

SDC Reopens Applications For Its Global Colourist Award

Textile Insights March 6, 2024

Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC) has reopened applications for its Global Colourist Award, which recognises the professional achievements of those working across the wider colouration sector. Entries are open to colourists worldwide across the full gamut of specialisations including, but not limited to textiles, dyes and pigments, leather, food and paint. “Production

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Clothing Retailer Gap To Use Ambercycle’s Regenerated Polyester

Textile Insights March 6, 2024

Clothing retailer Gap and Ambercycle will leverage textile-to-textile recycled materials in Athleta products, by using Ambercycle’s Cycora regenerated polyester. Ambercycle’s Cycora regenerated polyester is a high-performance material created from end-of-life textiles that seamlessly replaces conventional polyester. Starting in 2026, Athleta, a Certified B Corporation

Industry

Tiruppur Knitwear Hub Navigating Through Various Challenges

Textile Insights March 6, 2024

Tiruppur, which is India’s biggest knitwear hub, has been navigating through various challenges on various fronts and also overcoming them since the last few years. But the biggest challenge in recent times has come due to the impact of the Russian-Ukraine war and through which the hub has not still been navigate through. It started […]

Home Textiles

Bangladesh Home Textile Exports Report Growth After 18 Months

Textile Insights March 5, 2024

Bangladesh reported an increase in home textile exports in February 2024 after a period of 18 months or since September 2022, according to data from the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB). The South Asian country exported home textiles products amounting to US $84.61 million, up 9.9 percent as against $77 million in February 2023 “Home textile […]