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

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 […]

Fibre

Birla Cellulose Creating Algae Based Fibre Which Eliminates Dyeing

Textile Insights December 6, 2023

India’s biggest cellulose fibre manufacturer Birla Cellulose, has partnered with Israeli start-up Algaeing to develop algae-based cellulosic fibres which eliminate the need for traditional dyeing. Algaeing’s patented algae bio-based technologies aim to utilise vertically-farmed algae to produce sustainable, biodegradable and zero-waste textiles and dyes for the textiles

Sustainability

Stella Mccartney Unveils First Ever Garment From Industrial Waste

Textile Insights December 6, 2023

USA start-up Protein Evolution (PEI) and its fashion brand partner, Stella McCartney has launched their first fashion garment, a Parka, manufactured from transforming industrial plastic waste into fibres. The fashion clothing has been created using PEI’s proprietary Biopure technology, which uses AI-designed enzymes to biologically break down synthetic textile and

Export

Several Challenges For Garment Export Sector – Bangladesh Bank

Textile Insights December 6, 2023

The Bangladesh Bank’s (BB) latest quarterly review on the garment sector informs that Bangladesh garment exports may face various challenges in the next few months of the current fiscal year. The central bank of Bangladesh attributed the challenges to global economic volatility, high inflation, uncertainties over the geo-economic landscape and low productivity. “Reducing