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Epson & Japanese Fashion Designer Partner On Sustainable Fashion

Textile Insights July 10, 2023

Digital printer manufacturer Epson has adapted its dry fibre technology, which is used to recycle paper and requires virtually no water to produce to produce new nonwoven re-fiberised fabric from used and discarded garments. “The new collection will illustrate how switching to digital textile

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Plans To Make India Hub For Sustainable & Circular Textiles

Textile Insights July 10, 2023

The Indian Ministry of Textiles has initiated work on drafting a policy to make India a global hub for sourcing sustainable and circular textiles. The ministry will conduct a study on Mapping of Textile Waste Value Chain, both pre- and post-consumer and to do so, has plans to hire a consulting agency, which will have […]

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Packaging Sustainability Goals Becomes Easier For Brands

Textile Insights July 8, 2023

Supply chain data and textile specialist, Trimco Group has unveiled a new Packaging Manager module as part of their supply chain traceability platform, ProductDNA. “Featuring automated packaging reports for multi-country EPR requirements, the new feature will relieve fashion brands from the gruelling workload of manually collecting, handling, and presenting their data to

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RadiciGroup’s Biofeel Eleven Yarn Catwalks At Expo

Textile Insights July 8, 2023

RadiciGroup took part in the Phygital Sustainability Expo held in the Imperial Forum Museum in Rome, where it presented a maxi dress made of Biofeel eleven, a yarn of completely natural origin featuring high technical, aesthetic and environmental performance. “The dress is not only made from a low environmental impact raw material, but is also […]

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MAS Holding Plans Buying Climate Positive Cellulosic Yarn

Textile Insights July 7, 2023

Sri Lanka headquartered MAS Holdings and one of the biggest garment manufacturers in the country, will buy HeiQ AeoniQ Climate Positive Cellulosic yarn as part of its ‘Plan for Change’ initiative to support the development of next-generation cellulosic filament fibres to replace polyester and nylon. With this investment, MAS Holdings becomes the first manufacturer to […]

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New EU Rules Make Producers Liable For Circularity In Textiles

Textile Insights July 6, 2023

The European Commission is proposing rules to make producers responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products and to support the sustainable management of textile waste across the EU. This initiative will accelerate the development of the separate collection, sorting, reuse and recycling sector for textiles in the EU, in line with the EU Strategy […]

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Kannapiran Mills Receives $2.5mn Sustainability Initiative Loan

Textile Insights July 6, 2023

The Good Fashion Fund (GFF) along with other like-minded organisations has invested US $2.5 million in Sri Kannapiran Mills Limited (SKML), which is an Indian producer of cotton yarn and sustainable denim fabrics. The loan will help support Kannapiran Mills’ investment in replacing and expanding of key sustainable equipments in two of their spinning factories […]

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Cellulose Fibre Recycler Renewcell Launches Supplier Network

Textile Insights July 5, 2023

Textile recycling innovator Renewcell, has launched CIRCULOSE Supplier Network (CSN), which is a group of 47 yarn and textile producers, who will help drive the circular economy and create a steady source of CIRCULOSE in the market. CSN members will streamline CIRCULOSE production across the supply chain and are committed to continuous development of circular […]

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PET Recycling Takes Leap With Oerlikon Barmag Technology

Textile Insights July 5, 2023

PT. Kahatex, one of Indonesia’s biggest fabric manufacturers has commissioned the homogenisation technology provided by Oerlikon Barmag Huitong Engineering (OBHE), a joint venture between Oerlikon Barmag and Yangzhou Huitong Chemical Engineering Technique Co., Ltd. The system has a daily capacity of 25 tons for recycling popcorn and bottle flakes into textile quality chips

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SAC Evolves New Suite Of Tools For Higg Index In 2022

Textile Insights July 4, 2023

Amsterdam based Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) in its 2022 Annual Report said it made progress in evolving the suite of tools for the Higg Index, which continues to play a vital role in measuring and understanding the industry’s impact. “The development of the Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) 4.0 and the major revision of the […]