Organic cotton, recycled polyester and cellulose-based fibers may lower impact at production, but once garments are discarded, most still enter a waste system built for resale, downcycling or disposal...
The Japanese materials maker is betting that mills and brands want stretch, moisture management and easier recyclability without relying on polyurethane blends.
Teijin Frontier has...
The cotton standard’s latest evolution reflects a wider industry reality: voluntary sustainability claims are giving way to traceable, auditable supply-chain data.
Better Cotton is investing...
Denim suppliers are shifting from loud vintage effects to refined, commercial fabrics that combine comfort, texture and sustainability.
Denim mills are recalibrating for Fall/Winter 2027–28....
Brussels, Belgium, 7 April 2026 – EDANA, the international association serving the nonwovens and related industries, released today the European annual statistics for 2025,...
The machinery maker’s pitch in Paris was clear: when customers hesitate on capital spending, new composite applications become the real route to growth.
KARL MAYER...
The company’s message is that the next competitive advantage in spinning will come from automation and intelligence as much as from machine speed.
At ITM...
IIT Delhi researchers have shown that flexible textile electrodes made from recycled PET, carbon nanotubes and polyaniline can remove dyes from real textile effluent...
Fastsort-Textile does not solve textile waste on its own, but it tackles one of the industry’s hardest operational problems: separating mixed post-consumer waste fast...
The new open-access toolkit aims to turn broad sustainability ambition into coordinated system-level action across fashion’s fragmented value chain.
The textile industry’s climate problem is...
The project shows how overlooked bio-waste can become a functional textile input, though commercial success will depend on matching sustainability with industrial performance.
A German...
The direction is strategically right: Bangladesh needs to move beyond basic volume apparel. But smart textiles are not yet a mass export engine; they...