"German fashion retailer C&A has become part of the Microfibre 2030 Commitment, where it will contribute to research into fibre fragmentation by testing the release of microfibres during domestic laun ...
2023
"Funding enables AMSilk to accelerate industrial scale-up and expand commercial operations of bio-fabricated silk protein materials Financing led by existing investors ATHOS (AT Newtec) with participa ...
"A major garment factory [Tuntex Garment Indonesia] in the Indonesian town of Tangerang will close down the business and lay off 1,163 workers after its main customer sportswear giant Puma stopped ord ...
"During the 2022 cotton harvest, Uzbek Forum monitors found no evidence of systematic, government-imposed forced labor for the second consecutive year. While this is a strong indication that efforts b ...
"As Adidas continues to weigh its options over what to do with its $1.3 billion Yeezy stockpile, one prominent labor campaigner says the solution is obvious: sell the sneakers, then funnel some of the ...
"British e-commerce retailer Asos has appointed a new Head of Corporate Responsibility [Nicholas Mazzei]. He brings experience from Zalando." ...
"As has now become known, Johanna von Stechow and Pablo von Wadenfels have been responsible for Tchibo 's corporate responsibility area since the beginning of the year. Tchibo thus also relies on dial ...
"What if after you’d worn a garment for a few years, you could simply send it back to the brand you bought it from in exchange for cash or store credit? There’d be no need to find a second-hand market ...
"A visual exploration of how the growth of Manchester as an industrial city had a colossal human cost, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend." ...
"The first denim garments made with Spiber’s Brewed Protein fibers have sold out in one week. Last week Japanese sports apparel brand Goldwin released $950 jeans and a $1,000 denim jacket made with th ...
"Abstract Readymade garment industry is one of the most important sources of foreign currency of Bangladesh as well as this sector is the largest employment sector of women. There are more than 5000 g ...
""Reborn - China Fiber Zero Carbon Action 2023 — Sustainable Textiles Credible Platform" was launched at the National Exhibition and Convention Center Shanghai on Wednesday to mark one of the industry ...
"Despite the rising demand for recycled materials, less than 1% of clothes were recycled into new clothing in 2021. What is stopping fashion’s circular transformation and more importantly - who will f ...
"Government officials last week destroyed $5.3 million worth of illegally imported used clothing in a bid to safeguard the domestic textile, apparel and footwear industries." ...
"The DTLA 2040 Community Plan presents a series of new zoning regulations designed to redirect the growth of Downtown L.A. over the course of the next 20 years, with an eye toward addressing the area’ ...
"A large fire has gutted thousands of shops at a popular clothing market in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, with shop owners devastated by the loss weeks before Eid, the Muslim festival marking the en ...
"Rajiv Sharma, Group CEO, Coats, discusses with Team Apparel Resources (AR) about Coats’ growing operations and revenue in India including the establishment of its state-of-the-art sustainability hub ...
"The amount of microparticles detected in wastewater from the textile industry may now be measured and controlled in a novel way according to new research financed by Nike. [...] To do this, a novel t ...
"A new report by the Federal Council should have clarified how many new goods are destroyed in Switzerland; and show ways to prevent this. Above all, however, it shows how opaque the industry is and h ...
"Austrian fibre manufacturer Lenzing, together with its partners Artistic Milliners from Pakistan, Canatiba from Brazil and Textil Santanderina from Spain, has started the first phase of a new Tencel ...