Updates

The apex Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) calls on textile mills, recyclers’, brands, MSMEs, manufacturers, retailers, women entrepreneurs and more to apply for the Textile Sustainable Awards 2024.

A new research has found that Gen Z and Millennial consumers care about sustainability, but lack awareness of the environmental and social impacts of fast fashion.

A new project in the US aims to disrupt and revolutionise the $96 billion textiles industry, driving advances in smart textiles, wearable technology, medical textiles and protective textiles.

The apex Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) will develop a virtual marketplace to integrate the local textiles industry into global value chains and capitalise on the shift towards online purchasing.

Refashion, a producer responsibility organisation, has launched Industrial Challenge, a project that seeks to deploy innovative industrial solutions for recycling non-reusable used textiles and footwear in France and Europe.

Four decades after a piece of discovered tartan fabric was confirmed to be the oldest in the world, Scotland’s House of Edgar and a tartan historian have recreated it just as it was woven around 1500–1600.

In a “goal” to bring its “most loyal customers into our shareholder base”, second-hand fashion marketplace Vestiaire Collective has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise at least €1 million from individual investors.

Neolast, the latest ' new material' in the market, promises the apparel industry with a high-performing alternative to elastane for performance stretch fabrics, unlocking the potential for end users to recycle such fabrics.

A private partnership involving 40 farms in Brazil, pioneering zero-deforestation in the Amazon region, has ensured the first container of 100% traceable Brazilian leather for the European market in Italy.

A research project in the UK is conducting a feasibility study to evaluate the potential of reducing micron count of finer wool quality UK sheep breeds to increase productivity, sustainability and resilience for sheep farmers and the wool industry.