Sustainability

Fashion For Good Picks Ten New Innovators For 2024 Programme

Textile Insights March 26, 2024

Building on a renewed five-year strategy, Fashion for Good has selected ten new innovators for its 2024 programme to receive tailored support validating their technologies. “These innovators represent an increased focus on novel footwear material and recycling technologies, man-made

Technical Textile & Nonwoven

Swedish Microfactory For Production Of Fully Finished Filter Bags

Textile Insights March 26, 2024

Swedish textile machinery manufacturers, ACG Kinna Automatic and ACG Nyström in cooperation with Juki have developed and delivered the first microfactory for the production of fully finished filter bags. As a fully automated system, it promises to revolutionise the production of woven or nonwoven needlefelt filter bags which is assembled in laborious and time-consuming cut

Dyes & Chemicals

B&O Refining PFAS-Free Water Repellents Ahead Of New Rules

Textile Insights March 23, 2024

The R&D team at Bolger & O’Hearn is developing and refining its line of powerful PFAS-Free, durable water repellents ahead of new regulations being implemented from January 1, 2025. “The new regulations will restrict the sale of consumer goods containing PFAS chemistries and our PFAS-free DWR’s have many of the same repellent characteristics as a […]

Fibre

Lenzing Fibres Made Geotextiles Protect Glaciers From Melting

Textile Insights March 23, 2024

The Lenzing Group, a supplier of regenerated cellulose fibre has created a unique, innovative concept that contributes to the sustainable protection of our glaciers. “It also inspires collective action for sustainable practices and a circular economy in the nonwovens and textile value chain,” Lenzing informed in a press release. The presentation titled ‘Glacial Threads:

Machinery

Oerlikon Showing Complete Solutions At Domotex Middle East

Textile Insights March 23, 2024

The Oerlikon’s Polymer Processing Solutions division is exhibiting at Domotex Middle East where it will be showing complete solutions ranging from melt to yarn, fibres and nonwovens. Domotex Middle East is an event for the carpet and flooring industry and Oerlikon will be present with its joint venture partner BB Engineering at the ATAG Export […]

Sustainability

Trident Commissions World’s Fifth Largest Solar Project

Textile Insights March 23, 2024

Gensol Engineering has commissioned a 10.6 MW rooftop solar project for Trident Ltd. in Madhya Pradesh, which ranks among the top five biggest rooftop solar ventures globally. Gensol Engineering Ltd is a leading player in solar power EPC services and electric mobility and the solar rooftop project exceeds 70,000 square metres. “This project marks a […]

Machinery

Jeanologia Calls For Collective Action On World Water Day

Textile Insights March 23, 2024

Fabric to apparel finishing technologies supplier Jeanologia has appealed for real change towards concrete and collective action coinciding with ‘World Water Day’ celebrations. The Spanish company is celebrating World Water Day under the slogan of ‘Water, a shared responsibility’. Since its foundation, Jeanologia has led sustainable change in the textile industry, thanks

Export

Indian Textile & Garment Exports Post 12.49% Growth In Feb

Textile Insights March 22, 2024

Indian exports of textiles and apparels in February 2024 recorded a growth of 12.49 percent over the same month of earlier year. “Of overall exports in February, textile exports rose 19.54 percent, while garment exports grew at 4.88 percent, both over February 2023,” data from Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) showed. Overseas shipments of […]

Fibre

Hyosung Showing Certified Sustainable Materials At Three Fairs

Textile Insights March 22, 2024

Spandex producer Hyosung will introduce a distinctive range of certified sustainable materials at Performance Days Munich, Functional Fabric Fair Portland and Kingpins Amsterdam exhibitions. Hyosung has expanded its offering of Regen bio-based elastane, replacing nearly all the fibre’s raw materials previously made with petroleum-based resources with 100 percent renewable

Machinery

EFI Does LCA Of Nozomi Single-Pass Digital Print Technology

Textile Insights March 22, 2024

Electronics For Imaging (EFI) has completed a life cycle assessment (LCA) of Nozomi single-pass digital print technology in partnership with award-winning sustainability consulting firm Clean Agency. Through this initiative, Clean Agency also developed an LCA tool that EFI customers and their customers can use to analyse their CO2 equivalent (CO2e) emissions as part of