Sustainability

Shahi Exports Closer To 100% Renewable Electricity Goal

Textile Insights December 8, 2023

Shahi Exports, India’s largest apparel manufacturer and exporter has been able to increase renewable energy capacity to 92.5 MW, bringing it closer to 100 percent renewable electricity goal by 2026. This was revealed in the Shahi Exports Sustainability Report for 2022-23. Another

Industry

Operating Profits Of Cotton Spinners To Plummet 250-350bps

Textile Insights December 8, 2023

Operating profits of Indian cotton yarn spinners will plummet 250-350 basis points from 10-10.5 percent in the previous fiscal to decadal lows of 7-8 percent in the ongoing fiscal. Crisil Ratings has attributed this to shrinking spread between cotton and cotton yarn, inventory losses and slower than expected pickup in downstream demand. Revenue too, will […]

Product Launch & Innovation

Hong Kong Researchers Innovate Fabric That Changes Colour

Textile Insights December 8, 2023

Hong Kong researchers have developed a fabric that is capable of changing colours with just a tap, by combining polymer optical fibres and artificial intelligence technology to create stunning smart textiles. First launched at Milan Fashion Week, this innovation promises to have a major impact on the global fashion industry. “I will have every colour […]

Sustainability

EU Parliament Revises Timeline On Textile Labeling Regulation

Textile Insights December 8, 2023

The European Union Parliament has revised the timeline for the textile labeling regulation, which was originally planned for fourth quarter of 2023, but has now been rescheduled for fourth quarter of 2024. The European Union Commission had earlier presented an EU strategy in March 2022 for sustainable and circular textiles as part of the circular […]

Product Launch & Innovation

Chinese Company Obtains Patent For Polylactic Acid Fibres

Textile Insights December 7, 2023

Suzhou Baolidi Material Technology has obtained a Chinese patent for a method to produce light absorbing and heat generating polylactic acid fibres. This was revealed by an announcement from the State Intellectual Property Office. A mixture melt is extruded from the spinneret and then the fibres are produced by cooling and drawing, and then subjected […]

Industry

Southern Textile Mills Seek Govt Relief Amid Global Recession

Textile Insights December 7, 2023

Several textile associations have sought relief from the central as well as state governments of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to roll back the power tariff hike and the central government to restrict and monitor galloping imports of various textile raw materials and products. S K Sundararaman, the Southern India Mills Association (SIMA) Chairman […]

Fibre

Recycled Cellulose Fibre Maker Renewcell Reduces Production

Textile Insights December 7, 2023

Renewcell, which recycles cellulosic textile waste in to fibres, is cutting down production in December as sales were nil in November The Swedish recycler said that it produced only 1,339 metric tons of Circulose brand during November as against manufacturing capacity of 1,420 tons, but there were no deliveries. In order to not negatively affect […]

Cotton

Mango Including Regenerative Cotton In Collections From 2024

Textile Insights December 7, 2023

Mango, a Spanish fashion brand as part of its sustainability strategy is planning to include regenerative cotton into its collections and the first of these garments will go on sale in 2024. Mango has partnered Materra, a UK-Indian entity that specialises in regenerative cotton farming and supply solutions. “Regenerative agriculture fibres are expected to play […]

Home Textiles

Use Of Sustainable MMCF In Home Textiles Gets Boost In Karur

Textile Insights December 7, 2023

Birla Cellulose, a manufacturer of sustainable cellulose fibres held a hub-meet in Tamil Nadu’s Karur, to explain potential of sustainable manmade cellulosic fibres (MMCF) in the home textiles sector. This meet which was attended by 175 home textile producers and exporters from the Karur textile cluster, aimed to pave the way for sustainable innovation in […]

Sustainability

Puma To Use Re:Fibre Technology In All Replica Jerseys

Textile Insights December 6, 2023

German sports company Puma has scaled up its textile recycling innovation, Re:Fibre and will be replacing recycled polyester with Re:Fibre in all Puma football Club and federation replica jerseys 2024 onwards. Since the launch of the pilot project in 2022, which saw Puma produce recycled training jerseys for their sponsored football clubs, Re:Fibre technology has […]