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Deloitte Reveals Holiday Consumers Are Optimistic and Ready to Spend

According to Deloitte’s latest holiday retail survey, the 2024 holiday season will be at least a bit more festive compared to last year. Although many consumer…

Monthly Cotton Economic Letter: October 2024

Recent Price Movement Cotton benchmarks were flat or higher over the past month. The December NY/ICE futures contract increased from values below 70 cents/lb…

Fabrics, Interior

Archroma Launches New Solution for Bio-Based Pigment Printing

Archroma is innovating printing with renewable raw materials and safer chemistry. The specialty chemical company introduced this week NTR Printing System for …

Fabrics

Inditex to invest €50m in textile innovation

MADRID – Zara owner Inditex has launched a new fund that will see €50 million ($54.75 million) invested in sustainable projects predominantly in the textile se…

The Brands: How Mandarina Duck debuted its first Eco Coated line

A yellow wave greeted the debut of Mandarina Duck, the brand’s first 100% sustainable Eco Duck collection. The line is hitting the market for f/w 2024/2025 and…

Technical Textiles

Sae-A Trading Opens Spinning Mill in Costa Rica

The South Korea-based company, which is one of the world’s largest apparel manufacturers, first entered the Costa Rica market in 2015 and has invested some 200…

The Brands: Discover Unspun's zero-inventory vision fashion model

The future of fashion lays in offering products that can help decarbonising this industry. Unspun is aware of this has set its clear mission--it aims to reduce…

Fabrics

Belgium's DOMO & BRANO partner for polyamide pedal plate

DOMO Chemicals and BRANO replaced die-cast aluminum with TECHNYL polyamides for the pedal support plate in a new heavy truck model, achieving a 27 per cent wei…

Technical Textiles

South Indian cotton yarn bearish, Bangladesh export concerns ease - Textile Fashion News Fibre2Fashion

South India's cotton yarn trade continued to face a bearish trend, with prices dropping ₹ * per kg in Mumbai due to slow buying by power loom owners. While the…

Fashion, Fabrics

MSC Exec: A Trump Win Could Pose 'Challenge' for Decarbonization

“It’s a challenge for us in shipping to convince a Republican administration that decarbonization is not only something that our business needs…but it also an …

Archroma makes bio-based pigment printing a reality

Archroma is making bio-based pigment printing commercially possible for the first time with its new NTR Printing System. Based on renewable raw materials and …

Brands to expand secondhand trade-in programmes

LOS ANGELES – US fashion brand Guess has partnered with textile recycling logistics specialist SuperCircle to launch an online used clothes trade-in programme …

Fashion, Fabrics

Spain launches textile waste pilot programme

MADRID - Ten of Spain’s largest fashion retailers including Zara, Mango, H&M, Decathlon and Primark, have signed up to a voluntary pilot scheme to collect, man…

Fashion, Fabrics

The Materials: Colourizd and Re-Matters ally to reduce industry impact

Re-Matters Textile Recycling Solutions, a Turkish innovative start-up focused on recycling and regenerative practices in the textile industry, has started a pa…

Fabrics, Processing

Shima unveils latest flat knitting technologies in Shanghai

Under the WHOLEGARMENT trademark, Shima Seiki has been setting the standard almost exclusively with nearly 30 years of experience in complete garment knitting …

Fashion, Fabrics, Processing

Enhancing textile export competitiveness - Textile Fashion News Fibre2Fashion

Tuticorin Internal Container Terminal promises to improve shipping turnaround times, providing relief to exporters in south India, especially in Tamil Nadu's t…

Fashion, Fabrics

ICE cotton hits one-month low amid strong dollar, weaker oil prices

ICE cotton futures fell to a one-month low due to the strengthening US dollar and declining crude oil prices. A higher dollar discouraged cotton purchases, whi…

Fabrics

Melliand International 5/2024: Overcoming PA6-textile recycling challenges

loopamid loop (BASF SE Ludwigshafen/Germany) The big challenge for any closed-loop recycling is to recycle the desired component while all the non-wanted impu…

Trützschler Group: Improvements in spinning, nonwovens and card clothing

At the ITMA Asia + CITME from October 14-18, 2024 in Shanghai/China, Trützschler Group unveils its state-of-the-art machinery and technologies in spinning, car…

US' Guess launches Guess Again recycling programme with SuperCircle

Guess has launched Guess Again, a recycling programme in partnership with SuperCircle to promote textile circularity. Customers can trade in worn clothing from…

USDA revises up Bangladesh's MY25 cotton use forecast to 7.8 mn bales

Bangladesh's cotton consumption is expected to rise marginally to 7.8 million bales in marketing year (MY) 2024-25, which started in August this year, accordin…

Fabrics

Despite Indonesia Ban, Temu Opens Up Shop in Vietnam, Brunei

Temu has been blacklisted in a big way, this time from Indonesia. The Indonesian government called on Apple and Google to remove the Temu app from their respe…

New Global Footwear Future Coalition Sets Sights on Sustainability

Footwear manufacturers, designers, and academics flocked to Havas Village in King’s Cross on Oct. 9 to attend panel discussions and workshop sessions that look…

Zara Owner Launches 50-Million-Euro Fund to Invest in Textile Innovation

Zara parent Inditex has earmarked 50 million euros ($54.5 million) for investing in innovation projects, predominantly involving textiles. The Mundi Ventures-…

Fashion, Fabrics

Pangaia Launches Latest Evolution of Bio-Based Down Alternative

London-based apparel and material sciences company Pangaia has upgraded its Flwrdwn bio-based down alternative in a new outwear line, the DNA Flower Warmth col…

KPMG: Supply Chain Operations WIll Migrate to Americas in Coming Years

New data from KPMG shows the Americas are hot for companies looking to strengthen their supply chains—for reasons from cost reduction, to improved resiliency a…

How Authenticity Can Woo Global Consumers: WWD Global Fashion Spotlight

How things have changed in the three decades since South Korean designer Lie Sang Bong brought his eponymous label to Paris in the late 1990s. “At that time […

Re-Matters and COLOURizd Enter a Strategic Partnership

Re-Matters Textile Recycling Solutions is expanding its network of circular solutions. The consultancy announced last week that it is partnering strategically…

Fabrics, Processing

Bangladesh Apparel Vendors Seek $10M from Debenhams Freight Forwarder

The ready-made garment exporters, known as the Debenhams Vendors Community, issued a legal notice against Expo Freight Limited (EFL) in April, alleging that th…

Madewell Drops a Second Collaboration with Kaihara Denim

Madewell teamed with famed Japanese mill Kaihara for a second collaboration. The women’s collection is inspired by the mill’s 130 years of denim expertise, in…

The Materials: How many times can wool be recycled?

Until today, wool is considered as the most recycled fiber in the apparel industry. Despite wool recycling is a widespread technique since the early 1800s, no …

Fashion, Fabrics, Processing

Guess Expands Recycling Program with SuperCircle

Guess has a new recycling partner. On Friday, the Los Angeles denim brand introduced Guess Again, a customer recycling program in partnership with SuperCircle…

Fabrics

Cotton yarn prices hold steady amid slow demand in north India - Textile Fashion News Fibre2Fashion

North India's cotton yarn markets are experiencing sluggish demand, with summer demand yet to materialise. Despite higher cotton arrivals and slow export deman…

Fashion, Fabrics, Interior

Challenges and opportunities for AI in textiles and clothing

Textiles Intelligence, a leading provider of business information to the global fibre, textile and apparel industries, has been named as the official media par…

Fashion, Fabrics

Simran Choudhary | Founder | Ordinaree

We focus on building genuine relationships with our customers Ordinaree is a sustainable womenswear brand founded in 2020. The brand combines aesthetics with …

Fashion, Fabrics

Danish company Bestseller's revenue drops by 4% in 2023-24

In the financial year from August 2023 to July 2024, Danish fashion company Bestseller's revenue fell by 4 per cent to DKK 35.6 billion (≈$5.21 billion), mainl…

Ten years of technological development: "Duo" from Object Carpet

A conventional carpet is usually made up of more than thirty different materials. It is almost impossible to disassemble it back into its individual parts. Thi…

Interior

Europe's Zalando's GMV increases by 7.8% in Q3

Zalando's Q3 GMV increased by 7.8 per cent to €3.5 billion (≈$3.83 billion), with revenue up 5.0 per cent to €2.4 billion (≈$2.63 billion) and adjusted EBIT ri…

Successful recycling in ZEBRA project

The four-year ZEBRA project is concluding this month, having successfully demonstrated and validated two recyclable thermoplastic wind turbine blades. The sec…

Vietnam's textile & garment exports rise 8.9% to $27.3 bn in Jan-Sept - Textile Fashion News Fibre2Fashion

Vietnam's textile and garment exports (excluding yarn and fibre) increased by *. * per cent YoY, reaching $ **. ** billion from January to September, while yar…

Fashion, Fabrics

US researchers develop waterproof coatings from upcycled textile waste

A Cornell research group led by Juan Hinestroza has developed a low-temperature method to create waterproof coatings from discarded textiles, using eco-friendl…

Fabrics, Processing, Technical Textiles

Mapping global cotton landscape amid sustainability & trade challenges - Textile Fashion News Fibre2Fashion

Cotton, aka white gold, remains a vital global commodity, sustaining economies and millions of livelihoods across ** nations. While cotton consumption in texti…

Fashion, Fabrics

Second-hand clothing sector contributes $7.6 bn to EU27+ GDP: Report

Apparel/Garments Second-hand clothing sector contributes $7.6 bn to EU27+ GDP: Report Oct 12, 2024 Second-hand clothing sector contributed $7.6 billion to E…

US researchers develop waterproof coatings from upcycled textile waste

Textiles US researchers develop waterproof coatings from upcycled textile waste Oct 12, 2024 A Cornell research group led by Juan Hinestroza has developed a…

Fabrics

Turkish textile-RMG-footwear retail sales volume drops 0.9% YoY in Aug

Turkish trade sales volume rose by 5.3 per cent YoY and 2.9 per cent month on month (MoM) in August. Wholesale trade sales volume increased by 3.1 per cent YoY…

Fabrics

Report

Second-hand clothing sector contributed $7.6 billion to EU and UK's GDP in 2023, supporting 150,000 jobs, including 110,000 green jobs. A recent report highlig…

Fashion, Fabrics

Shuffle Board: Gucci Names CEO, NuOrder Hires Head of Revenue

Brands Kering Luxury group Kering announced the appointment of Stefano Cantino as chief executive officer of Gucci, reporting to Francesca Bellettini, deputy…

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Fashion, Fabrics

Searing Temps Lead to Unsafe Factory Conditions in Global South

Dy phors spends her days packing orders destined for international brands at a garment factory in Krong Bavet, a Cambodian city near the country’s border with …

The Stores: Scandi vibes and nature hype Marc O'Polo's new Düsseldorf store

Marc O'Polo, the Swedish sustainable casual lifestyle brand, has just opened a new flagship store on Düsseldorf's renown Königsallee shopping street (Kö). The…

AI meets Textiles

Anja Bisgaard Gaede vom dänischen Trendbüro SPOTT trends + business über die transformative Kraft der KI in der Textilbranche.

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Interior, Processing

European Ecodesign Regulation: regulation for textile and shoe products

The new Ecodesign Regulation (EU 2024/1781) came into force on 18 July 2024 and is a central component of the European Green Deal. The directive, also known as…

Technical textiles, Texpertise Econogy, Fabrics

Textile Standards and Legislation Guide

The current edition provides an overview of the most important environmental and social standards, instruments and labels in the textile industry.

Texpertise Econogy

The future of textile manufacturing

Michael McDonald discusses the key concerns keeping industry members awake at night. While 2022 was a peak for many, 2023 has been a challenging year, and 2024…

Texpertise Econogy, Processing

Up-to-date insights into sustainable manufacturing

1. Measure your current sustainability performance without comparison to others. 2. Analyze your materiality and aim for reduction in key areas. 3. Set your ow…

Texpertise Econogy, Processing

“This is when sustainability quickly becomes a serious economic factor”

You can forget it if you haven’t got a certificate! In the contract sector, the demands placed on tenders are increasing continuously and worldwide. At the Hei…

Texpertise Econogy, Interior

A look behind "Made in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan..."

“A dumping ground for textiles” or the textile market of the future? A textile expert who is frequently in Africa offers insights into the situation of the Afr…

Texpertise Econogy

Textiles and football

Millions of fans throughout the world are currently enjoying the European Football Championship. But without textiles, football just wouldn‘t be possible. They…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics

European textile-waste strategy: separate, recycle, reuse

The European Waste Framework Directive requires all EU member states to set up separate collection systems for used textiles from 2025. According to the Europ…

Technical textiles, Texpertise Econogy, Fabrics

Heimtextil Trends 24/25: New Sensitivity

Heimtextil Trends 24/25 is about approaching the future of textiles with a New Sensitivity. In this context, sensitivity means considering impact when making a…

Texpertise Econogy, Interior

The circular economy is not just a passing fad

From fashion to aerospace: classic polyester is virtually irreplaceable in numerous areas of application. The problem: polyester is based on fossil raw materia…

Technical textiles, Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Interior, Fabrics, Processing

Textiles have a long tradition in Africa. And a great future

“A dumping ground for textiles” or the textile market of the future? A textile expert who is frequently in Africa offers insights into the situation of the Afr…

Fashion for Biodiversity

An experiment by his award-winning company Cocccon Crafts & Loom gave Chandra Prakash the idea of his pioneering business model Fashion For Biodiversity. A con…

Textile glacier protection

Glaciers are melting at an alarming pace with the climate emergency making things particularly difficult for the white giants. Can textiles slow down the rate …

Technical textiles, Texpertise Econogy

‘Something’s happening on the wall’

An interview with wallpaper designer Felix Diener about where he gets the best ideas for new wallpaper designs, the importance of wallpaper in a digital world …

Texpertise Econogy, Interior

International fashion festival honours up-and-coming designers – Texpertise Network hands out sustainability award

In late October, the Breton town of Dinan, situated in north-western France, hosted the 27th edition of the Festival International des Créateurs de Mode. The e…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion

Why small fibres play such a big role in the energy transformation

Alongside photovoltaics, wind energy is considered to be the most important energy source for the future.

Technical textiles, Texpertise Econogy, Processing

Focus on sustainability and digitalisation

The Texpertise Network trade fair stand at Heimtextil 2023 in Frankfurt offered visitors the opportunity to take a trip into the metaverse using a virtual real…

Texpertise Econogy

Young sustainable fashion from South Africa

Women and their empowerment play an important role in the future-oriented and sustainable development of the South African fashion industry and in making South…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion

New Texpertise SDG Report is online

The first SDG Report of the Messe Frankfurt Texpertise Network is now public. The report summarizes Messe Frankfurt's global commitment to achieving the Sustai…

Texpertise Econogy

Commitment and transparency for a better future

All over the world encouraging examples can be found of how the principle of individual responsibility and voluntary action can function in implementing the Su…

And yet it moves!

A mood of optimism! In September 2015, the international community adopted the UN’s 2030 agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Within this framew…

Dynamic thinking - sustainable change

In January, it was that time again - on the occasion of Heimtextil 2023, industry and association representatives came together for the traditional Texpertise …

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Interior

New + Next

The "New & Next University Competition" selects representative design concepts from students at international universities specializing in textile design as pa…

Interior

The woven heart valve

An innovation that could extend cardiovascular patients’ lives has been honored at Techtextil in June 2022.

Technical textiles

Clean shoes

Textile and leather cleaners have discovered a new business field. They offer professional cleaning of shoes.

Texpertise Econogy

Where business and fashion meet

Although the fashion scene in Africa has been thriving for many years, the rest of the fashion world seems to only just be waking up to the vast and varied tal…

Fashion, Fabrics

Tu Du’s for your own sustainable wardrobe

How effective collective brainstorming is and what it can achieve was made clear by Germany's first "TU DU" wall.

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics

Sustainability in textile printing

Peter Buttiens from the European Specialty Printing Manufacturers Association (ESMA) and Thomas Poetz from 3T Industry InkJet Consulting are experts in digital…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Interior, Processing

We make a difference!

“Sustainable fashion makes a difference. We make a difference!” – these were two of the most important messages of the Neonyt Lab.

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics

A new plan for an old problem

The EU has adopted an action plan to drive the textile industry's shift toward greater sustainability

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics, Interior, Processing

Podcast: What can home textile retailers learn from nature’s ecosystem?

Based on the Heimtextil Trend "Deep Nature", this year’s curator and trend expert Anja Bisgard Gaede sheds light on the trends in the latest podcast.

Interior

“We shouldn’t forget individual needs”

Dr Christian Benedict has been researching the subject of sleep for more than 20 years. At the Sleep & More conference during the Heimtextil Summer Special fro…

Interior

Covid-19 accelerates systemic change

The coronavirus pandemic is having a devastating impact worldwide. Even the textile and clothing industries have not been spared. Karl-Hendrik Magnus, Senior P…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics, Processing

“It pays off to know each production step in detail”

Interview with Marion Röttges, Co-CEO Apparel & Communication der Remei AG.

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Processing

The climate deal

The focus was on actively shaping climate action when the representatives of almost 200 countries met at the COP26 Global Summit in Glasgow last winter. The go…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion

Scaling circularity

The fashion industry could become 80% circular by 2030, according to the "Scaling Circularity" report published by Global Fashion Agenda with the support of Mc…

Technical textiles, Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics

“Buying in general is getting more deliberate”

Interview with Claudia Franz, Director Brand Management Interior & Contract Textiles and Apparel Fabrics & Fashion at Messe Frankfurt

Texpertise Econogy, Fabrics, Interior

New ways of sourcing

Globalisation, digitalisation and a shift in values are changing the clothing industry and also the way clothing is sourced.

Fashion

Online shopping is more sustainable

Shopping experiences in brick-and-mortar stores are not possible at the moment because of the Coronavirus pandemic. Online shopping is a popular alternative. W…

“An important first step of a long journey”

Austrian fibre producer and Texprocess exhibitor Lenzing AG is a pioneer in sustainable production processes. Robert Van de Kerkhof, Chief Commercial Officer a…

Technical textiles, Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics

The New Cool

Plant-based leather, natural dyes, recycled materials and the likes. More and more brands are launching environmentally friendly collections and are advertisin…

Vegan, organic, sustainable

Leather is a much-loved material for shoes, bags and accessories. But using leather to make such items has long ceased to be necessary. Plant-based alternative…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics

„It takes two“ Attitude-Behavior Gap Report

In Covid-19 times, more and more people want more sustainability when shopping for clothing. That is why Zalando is expanding the second-hand clothing business.

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion

From Jeans to Couch

Interior meets fashion: International furniture retailer Ikea teams up with sustainable fashion pioneer MUD Jeans to create two sustainable sofa covers using r…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Interior

Leather made from mushrooms

US biotech company Bolt Threads has developed a plant-based alternative to leather made from mushrooms. The first fashion company to have designed clothes with…

Fashion, Fabrics

A milestone for the textile industry

The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) and H&M Foundation have developed the Green Machine, a hydrothermal separating system for fib…

Technical textiles, Texpertise Econogy, Processing

Fossil Fashion

The 2021 report Fossil Fashion by the Changing Markets Foundation, Clean Clothes Campaign, Plastic Soup Foundation, WeMove Europe, Zero Waste Alliance Ukraine …

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics

Fifth Trend Report on Ethical Consumption

Sustainability has become mainstream and is losing none of its relevance during the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, the opposite is true – as is shown by the fi…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics

Circular Cellulose

The goal is a circular economy: cellulosic fibres derived from textile waste are a step in the right direction. Startups like Renewcell and industry experts in…

Texpertise Econogy, Fashion, Fabrics