The Walmart Foundation has granted US $1.2 million to support Goodwill Industries International and Accelerating Circularity to transform unsellable textile donations into recycling feedstock. The partnership with Goodwill is intended to develop skills, systems, and infrastructure at local
Sustainable compacting with Compas is the environmentally-friendly route to controlled shrinkage. Sperotto Rimar’s revolutionary compacting technology brings unmatched results without adding chemicals. Sperotto Rimar’s Compas is an open-width compacting and finishing machine for knitted and woven fabrics, which uses a unique compacting concept. “This is based on a belt
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 initiative is phasing out coal from garment factories and continue working on coal […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]





















