"Few industries tout their sustainability credentials more forcefully than the fashion industry. But the sad truth is that despite high-profile attempts at innovation, it’s failed to reduce its planet ...
2022
"Retailers are seeing record volume of holiday-season returns amid rising e-commerce purchases. The cost to process these orders is growing Providing information about how a product is made and how it ...
"Ralph Lauren announces the debut of the RLX CLARUS® Polo Shirt exclusively at the 2022 Australian Open Tennis Tournament, showcasing the Company’s latest work in groundbreaking product innovation and ...
"Many species of dead fish, large and small, are lying in the ditch to drain treated wastewater from Tam Thang Industrial Park into the environment. [...] It is known that Tam Thang Industrial Park cu ...
"ZD Zero Defects manufactures soy fibre underwear for both women and men. Founded in 1920, this company has among its objectives the search for comfort for its customers, recognizing itself for the us ...
"Laserfood patents a vegan textile product from persimmon, which can replace animal leather. The Valencian company Laserfood, which has a 16-year history in activities related to the agri-food sector, ...
"Workers at the AJI Group's garment factory in Savar's Hemayetpur-based filmmaker Ananta Jalil's blockade the road demanding arrears of wages. [...] The agitating workers said that about 7,000 workers ...
"Monin Bhuiyan, a factory inspection team member, said they found poor fire safety measures at around 50 per cent of the factories in Gazipur, particularly in textile and spinning mills. They also fou ...
"The U.K.’s competition watchdog will review potentially misleading environmental boasts made by the fashion retail sector, as part of its investigation into greenwashing. The Competition and Markets ...
"Fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger has announced the two winning start-ups of the latest Fashion Frontier Challenge to be Dutch artificial intelligence (AI) specialist Lalaland and ‘sustainable’ Rwandan bu ...
"If I look back at how 2021 ended – two things immediately come to mind: the fatigue of still living with the reality of a global pandemic and how it shaped our daily lives, and the curiosity about th ...
"Textile innovator Spinnova has joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) in a commitment to support the initiative’s 10 principles which centre on protecting human rights, eliminating unfair la ...
"California recently banned the use of PFAS in children’s products and disposable food packaging, and set new requirements for cookware manufacturers to disclose the presence of these toxic "forever c ...
"Growing demand for sustainable products from consumers, governments and NGOs has made the use of recycled materials in fashion tremendously valuable to brands as well as the environment. [...] A scie ...
"The pace of fashion and textile production picks up, but fundamental problems remain unsolved. Evidence emerged today to show that the engine at the core of fashion production – garment and textile e ...
"Chinese e-commerce giant JD.com has opened two retail stores in the Netherlands that it says will be manned with robots preparing and delivering packages. The “robotic shops” branded Ochama mark JD.c ...
"The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has recently been honoured with Green Leadership Award 2021 for its exemplary leadership in developing Bangladesh as the home of ...
"An indefinite strike by 200,000 power-loom operators in the Coimbatore and Tiruppur districts of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has paralysed the transformation of yarn into cloth in one of ...
"Vietnamese spinning and denim mill XDD Textile is leaning further into sustainable ingredients. The mill recently launched Ecology Denim, a fabric that contains 15 percent Tencel x Refibra, 10 percen ...
"The Public Works Commission has the go-ahead from the city of Fayetteville to begin a pilot project to test technology that will clean-up contamination at an abandoned textile mill plant. [...] Since ...