Sustainability

Shahi Exports Reports Strong Sustainability Progress In FY 2024–25

Textile Insights December 18, 2025

Shahi Exports, India’s largest apparel and textile manufacturer, has released its Sustainability Progress Report for FY 2024–25, highlighting significant advances across climate action, social responsibility and industry collaboration. The report covers the period from April 1, 2024, to March

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Sun Chemical Highlights Industry Firsts In Sustainability Report

Textile Insights December 17, 2025

Sun Chemical has released its 15th annual Sustainability Report, highlighting steady progress in circular product innovation, emissions reduction and industry collaboration. The report outlines the company’s journey towards net carbon neutrality by 2050, with Sun Chemical already 86% of the way to achieving its 2030 greenhouse gas reduction target. This progress is driven

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Turkey Launches Circular Fashion Partnership To Boost Textile Recycling

Textile Insights December 11, 2025

Turkey is strengthening its textile recycling capabilities with the launch of the Circular Fashion Partnership: Turkey, a new initiative led by the Global Fashion Agenda. Starting in 2026, the project aims to establish a national system to capture and recycle post-industrial textile waste, connecting factories, recycling plants, and brands to give new life to textile […]

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ICRA ESG: Water, Waste Progress Not Enough To Cut Energy Intensity

Textile Insights December 11, 2025

India’s textile industry is making steady progress on sustainability, driven by improved ESG governance, stronger water stewardship, and rising waste circularity, according to ICRA ESG Ratings’ latest report, ‘Sustainability Unstitched – Indian Textile Industry’s Green Gauge.’ However, high energy intensity and modest renewable energy adoption continue to challenge the

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Epic Group Installs World’s First High-Temp Electric Heat Pumps For Industrial Laundry

Textile Insights December 9, 2025

The global fashion industry’s transition toward carbon-free manufacturing reached a major technological milestone with the installation of the world’s first high-temperature electric heat pumps designed to power an industrial laundry. The innovation formed part of Epic Group’s new state-of-the-art apparel manufacturing hub in Bhubaneswar, India, operated by its

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EU Council And Parliament Agree On Simplified Deforestation-Free Regulation

Textile Insights December 8, 2025

The European Council’s presidency and the European Parliament have reached a provisional political agreement on a targeted revision of the EU regulation on deforestation-free products (EUDR). The revision is designed to simplify implementation and postpone the application date, giving companies, traders and authorities additional time to prepare. The regulation will now

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Eight Global Brands Join Initiative To Cut Deforestation From Fashion And Packaging

Textile Insights November 28, 2025

Canopy announced that eight new companies have joined its flagship Pack4Good and CanopyStyle initiatives. The latest cohort includes Marc O’Polo, Victoria’s Secret & Co., Akyn, Mint Velvet, Spell, OUTnABOUT, D Ô E N, and ICICLE, all committing to eliminating the use of Ancient and Endangered Forests in their paper packaging and man-made cellulosic fibre (MMCF) […]

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TU Wien Scientists Develop Breakthrough Method To Fully Recycle Blended Textiles

Textile Insights November 27, 2025

In a major advance for textile sustainability, researchers at TU Wien have unveiled a novel recycling method capable of almost perfectly recovering both cotton and polyester from blended fabrics, one of the industry’s most challenging waste streams. The innovation comes at a time when global textile production has surged to more than 100 million tonnes […]

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NTTM Unveils India’s First Scientific National Flag Recycling Model

Textile Insights November 27, 2025

The National Technical Textiles Mission (NTTM), under the Ministry of Textiles, has supported a landmark initiative that is redefining sustainability in India’s technical textiles industry. The project, which led to the establishment of the Atal Centre of Textile Recycling and Sustainability at IIT Delhi’s Panipat campus, brings together technology, innovation and national

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Lululemon Releases FY24 Impact Report, Unveils Ambitious Impact Agenda 2030

Textile Insights November 17, 2025

Lululemon has released its fifth annual Impact Report, detailing progress made in FY24 across its social and environmental commitments, while also announcing a refreshed Impact Agenda 2030, a renewed strategic framework that will guide the next phase of the company’s impact journey. The updated agenda builds on learnings since 2020 and focuses on deepening the […]