Technical Textile & Nonwoven

Fight Against Ghost Gear: Waterhaul Turns Ocean Pollution Into Purposeful Products

Textile Insights November 11, 2024

UK-based company Waterhaul is tackling one of the ocean’s most pressing challenges: ghost gear, or abandoned fishing nets that continue to trap marine life and pollute waters long after their useful life. These discarded nets, made from resilient plastics like nylon and polypropylene,

Sustainability

Redress To Help Textile Businesses Comply With EPR Regulations

Textile Insights April 19, 2024

Reconomy, a global circular economy specialist, has launched a tech-enabled, international service to help businesses comply with textile Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations. The service called ReDress will help businesses understand and manage their global obligations under textile EPR laws, including timelines, financial impacts, and reporting

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

M&S Marches Towards Achieving Net Zero Emission 2040 Target

Textile Insights April 12, 2024

Global apparel retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced several new investments in pioneering projects, funded through its Plan A Accelerator Fund, to help achieve its net zero target by 2040 goals. “M&S’s industry-leading, fully integrated sustainability plan ‘Plan A’ was launched in 2007, well before most mainstream businesses were thinking about

Industry

Ghana Identifying Opportunities In Circular Textiles Business

Textile Insights April 5, 2024

The Ghana government has commenced a feasibility study of the textiles and apparel value chain to identify circular business opportunities. The project is being undertaken in collaboration with the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute (KEITI), which specialises in providing solutions to environmental problems. “One of the goals includes helping to revamp

Machinery

Redwave Tex Identifies & Sorts Apparels For Recycling

Textile Insights April 3, 2024

Redwave will showcase its latest sorting technology Redwave Tex, a new sorting solution designed to identify and sort textiles at IFAT 2024. “Redwave Tex sort’s materials on predefined parameters and can handle sorting whole garments for reuse and sorting shredded textiles for recycling,” a press release from the Austrian company said. Redwave Tex’s sensor technology

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

US Bill Aims To Incentivise Fashion Reshoring & Circularity

Textile Insights March 7, 2024

A new US trade bill aims reduce reliance of textiles and apparel on Chinese imports and support domestic industry, while also boosting circular fashion offering US $14 billion in incentives. The Americas Trade and Investment Act seeks to encourage reshoring and near-shoring of manufacturing supply chains with a heavy footprint in China. It also aims […]

Apparel, Fashion, Retail

Clothing Retailer Gap To Use Ambercycle’s Regenerated Polyester

Textile Insights March 6, 2024

Clothing retailer Gap and Ambercycle will leverage textile-to-textile recycled materials in Athleta products, by using Ambercycle’s Cycora regenerated polyester. Ambercycle’s Cycora regenerated polyester is a high-performance material created from end-of-life textiles that seamlessly replaces conventional polyester. Starting in 2026, Athleta, a Certified B Corporation

Machinery

Epson To Shred Hard-To-Recycle Fabrics With New Technology

Textile Insights March 1, 2024

Epson plans to use its proprietary Dry Fiber Technology to establish technology for defibrating hard-to-recycle fabrics and expand real-world fibre recycling. ‘To this end, Epson entered into a joint development agreement with The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel Limited (HKRITA),” Seiko Epson said in a press release. HKRITA is a Hong Kong-based […]

Sustainability

Lindström India Offers Workwear Made From Recycled Polyester

Textile Insights February 24, 2024

Lindström India, a subsidiary of the Finnish Lindström Oy, a global textile rental company offering workwear and cleanroom services has included recycled polyester from PET bottles into its workwear garments. “Through this initiative Lindström India has reaffirmed its commitment to sustainability with yet another proactive initiative,” the company said in a press release.

Sustainability

Lululemon Unveils Enzymatically Recycled Nylon 6.6 Apparel

Textile Insights February 22, 2024

US apparel brand Lululemon has partnered with Australian enviro-tech startup, Samsara Eco and unveiled the world’s first enzymatically recycled nylon 6.6 product. “This marks a key milestone in textile-to-textile recycling and lululemon’s work to create a circular ecosystem,” Lululemon said in a press release. Using recycled nylon 6.6 made with Samsara Eco’s technology,