Sustainability

Textile Recycling Gets Boost From Process To Separate Fibres

Textile Insights August 9, 2023

Chemistry researchers at the University of Copenhagen have been able to make a major breakthrough in textile recycling by finding a simple and effective method to separate polyester and cotton from blended fabrics. Fibres of cotton-polyester blends although popular fabrics, are virtually

Sustainability

Source Fashion Displaying Breakthrough Recycling Technology

Textile Insights July 15, 2023

Source Fashion, which will be organised from July 16-18, 2023 and is Europe’s newest responsible sourcing show, will show the first UK presentation of a world-first breakthrough in polyester textile recycling. The event will see the first commercial scale launch of Project Re:claim, which is a post-consumer polyester recycling plant. Project Re:claim is a joint […]

Sustainability

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

Sustainability

Avery Dennison & TEXAID To Tackle Textile Waste Challenge

Textile Insights July 3, 2023

Avery Dennison has joined forces with TEXAID, a European company specialising in recycling of used textiles, to address challenges of textile waste management ahead of incoming regulatory changes in the European Union. In a press release, Avery Dennison said a key aspect of this collaboration is the integration of cutting-edge technologies. As a provider of […]

Tete-A-Tete

Perfect Recycling Machine Offers Longer Length Fibres

Textile Insights June 22, 2023

ITMA 2023 edition is mainly focusing on Sustainability and Circularity, with buyers too showing interest in seeing technologies with a focus on these two features. India based Perfect Engineering anticipating this interest, too promoted its textile waste recycling technology at its stall. “Perfect Engineering has been focusing since the last 15 years on textile waste […]

Machinery

Trützschler Group at ITMA 2023

Textile Insights June 1, 2023

Trützschler, with 1320-square-meter stand at ITMA 2023, will introduce the latest machines and technologies from the entire Trützschler Group –including Spinning, Card Clothing, Nonwovens and Man-Made Fibers. Trützschler Spinning and Trützschler Card Clothing Trützschler Spinning will showcase innovations for carding, draw frame and combing which meet the most important

Corporates

DiloGroup Join Hands With Dell’Orco & Villani And TechnoPlants To Promote Textile Recycling

Textile Insights May 29, 2023

To strengthen and promote the recycling of garment waste in order to save valuable textile fibre in the European and worldwide textile economy, DiloGroup announced the commencement of close co-operation with Italian companies Dell’Orco & Villani and TechnoPlants. This cooperation forms a strong group of expertises to provide supply of complete projects in the area […]