Research & Development
Vacuum insulation panels rethought - Adjustable, tailored to needs, flexible
Adaptable insulation elements can ensure that the heat transfer through the building envelope can be adjusted as required. This saves heating or cooling energy and therefore costs. Intelligent systems can regulate heat transfer according to the outside temperature and the need for heating or cooling in the interior. In the ReVaD project, the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF) and their partners are developing adaptive building envelopes that can also use concrete components as structural thermal energy storage units for temperature control in buildings.
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Nonwovens / Technical Textiles
Sustainable fashion: ANDRITZ tearing line starts up at Pacific Jeans, Bangladesh
International technology group ANDRITZ has supplied and commissioned a reXline tearing system for Pacific Jeans in Chattogram, Bangladesh. This system marks a significant step forward in the recycling of post-industrial textile waste for sustainable clothing production.
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Nonwovens / Technical Textiles
Lifetime awards at IDEA®25 and FiltXPO™ 2025
Cary, NC, May 12, 2025 – INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, is pleased to announce that Behnam Pourdeyhimi, PhD, Executive Director, The Nonwovens Institute, and Lynda Kelly, SVP, Americas & Business Development, Suominen Corporation (retired) received the IDEA® Lifetime Achievement Award and the INDA Lifetime Service Award respectively last week at IDEA®25 and FiltXPO™ 2025. The Awards were presented before a crowd of well-wishers, colleagues, and friends cheering them on.
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Raw Materials
Better Cotton joins policy hub coalition to contribute to regulatory discussions
Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has joined the Policy Hub, a Brussels-based coalition, to contribute to key EU policy discussions.
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Trevira CS® celebrates 45 years at Clerkenwell Design Week 2025
During Clerkenwell Design Week from May 20 to 22 in London's Clerkenwell district, Indorama Ventures is inviting design enthusiasts and trade visitors to discover the diverse fabric world of its Trevira® CS brand. This year the brand also celebrates its 45th anniversary!
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Major recycling partnership to tackle waste crisis in Mali
Bangkok, Thailand & Madrid, Spain May 14, 2025 – In response to Mali’s escalating environmental crisis, three leading organizations— Ayuda en Acción, Indorama Ventures, and IMG Group —have joined forces to launch ‘Bamagreen,’ a transformative recycling and reforestation project in the capital city of Bamako.
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ADVA®TEX 100% textile-to textile recycling 100% sustainable comfort
ADVA®tex is a comfort filling fibre made entirely from recycled textile scraps from the textile industry. The fibres help minimize CO2 emissions during the production of mattresses, cushions, and printed duvets. This significantly reduces dependency on new raw materials and plastics - without compromising on quality or comfort.
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Garment Tech Istanbul Exhibition: a global hub for buyers and international visitors
Poised to become a global showcase for the garment and ready-to-wear industry, Garment Tech Istanbul Exhibition is set to bring together leading brands that shape the sector under one roof. With its diversity of exhibitors, high-profile visitor portfolio, and substantial business potential, the exhibition promises a unique experience. It will serve as a pulse-check for the industry's ongoing transformation.
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Turning waste into value: Borealis delivers circular breakthroughs in 2024
Borealis made significant progress on its journey towards a circular economy in 2024, with major increases in both capacity and feedstock processing. Our latest Annual Report shows circular production capacity rising by 18% compared to the previous year, reaching 227,900 metric tons, while the volume of circular feedstock processed nearly doubled to 221,200 metric tons.
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Uster Technologies introduces its new fiber process control system
Uster, Switzerland, 15th May 2025 – Fiber quality measurement in spinning preparation is crucial for optimizing waste and meeting yarn quality specifications. The brand-new Uster AFIS 6 – the next-generation laboratory instrument from Uster Technologies – uniquely tests man-made fiber properties in addition to cotton. It provides critical data to optimize fiber process control for cotton, man-made fibers, and blended yarns.
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Navis TubeTex partners with Pluvia to deliver expanded sales and support
Navis TubeTex, a leader in engineering advanced textile finishing and processing solutions, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Pluvia, a European-based innovator in sustainable textile machinery. Through this collaboration, Navis will support the sales and service of Pluvia’s continuous ranges for washing and bleaching in the North American market.
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Durak Poly-Strong PC-IR perfects camouflage invisibility
Durak Poly-Strong PC-IR, developed to eliminate the weakness in the stitching areas of camouflage materials that provide invisibility against infrared rays (IR), offers superior performance and durability. This special technical thread opens the door to new opportunities in several different areas as well as military applications.
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XLANCE® introduces a new generation of high-performance stretch denim at PV Denim Milan
XLANCE®, a leading innovator in stretch fiber technology, will present its latest advancements in denim fabrics at PV Denim Milan, held at Superstudio Più. This event marks the official launch of XLANCE®’s new generation of stretch solutions, specifically designed to meet the evolving demands of the denim industry.
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More key upgrades to drive business, innovation and sustainability at Cinte Techtextil China 2025
Shanghai, 15 May 2025. The 2024 edition saw an increase in visits and a 92% visitor satisfaction rate, with 84% of those surveyed intending to return to future editions. Leveraging this momentum, the show will roll out several upgrades in 2025. In addition to two other inaugural zones (for medical & protective, and automotive products), the debut Textile Chemicals and Dyes Zone will spotlight the show’s newest product category. In addition, Cinte Techtextil China’s Sustainability Guided Tours will rebrand into the Econogy Tour, highlighting several exhibitors who have passed the independently-verified Econogy Check. Meanwhile, including supplementary forums for protective and automotive textiles, a broadened fringe programme will complement the new features onsite.
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Eight out of ten denim mills prefer Monforts
Monforts denim customers were very much to the forefront at the latest Kingpins Amsterdam exhibition held from April 16-17 at the city’s Sugar Factory. It’s no accident, for example, that the advanced denims which have dominated the show’s Most Sustainable Product (MSP) displays over the past four years are from mills employing resource-efficient Monforts technologies including MONTEX stenters, MONFORTEX Shrinking ranges, ECO LINE denim finishing systems and THERMEX dyeing ranges.
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SHIMA SEIKI announces partnership with Lonati
Leading computerized flat knitting innovator SHIMA SEIKI MFG., LTD. of Wakayama, Japan, is collaborating with Lonati S.p.A. of Brescia, Italy, to promote digitalization and sustainable product development within the sock industry. This partnership creates a strong synergy by combining SHIMA SEIKI’s APEXFiz® design software and Lonati’s ORION programming software, with the shared goal of helping the industry reduce its reliance on traditional physical sample creation processes.
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Ahlstrom introduces Optipad™
Ahlstrom, a global leader in fiber-based specialty materials, launches Ahlstrom Optipad™, a new high-performance filter pad, designed for hot cooking oil filtration. It’s a cutting-edge solution that brings together innovation, sustainability, and simplicity, extending oil lifetime up to 50% and enhancing ease of use.
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Italian Textile Machinery: Orders continue to fall in first quarter 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, orders for textile machinery recorded by ACIMIT, the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers, showed a sharp decline compared to the same period in 2024, down 29%. The index stood at 41.8 points (base year 2021=100).
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Recycling / Circular Economy
Recover™ and Intradeco announce strategic joint venture to enhance recycledcotton fiber production in Central America
Recover™, the leading materials science company and large-scale producer of sustainable, high?quality recycled cotton fiber and cotton fiber blends, and Intradeco, a global vertical manufacturing group and prominent player in the textile industry, offering high-quality apparel across an extensive range of categories, are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic joint venture aimed at producing Recover™ recycled cotton fiber and revolutionizing the textile production landscape in the Western hemisphere.
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Last chance to join EDANA’s Innovation Forum
The countdown is on! With just 4 weeks to go, the EDANA Innovation Forum 2025 is nearly at capacity, and this is your final chance to join the most forward-thinking event in the nonwovens calendar.
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New leadership for Swiss Textile Machinery Association
The Swiss Textile Machinery Association is the representative body for Switzerland’s providers of textile equipment, systems and services. Its general assembly on May 8 elected experienced industry leaders as president and board members.
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International practical experience for textile students
As part of the European Erasmus+ project AddTex, the partner institutions organised several hackathons simultaneously from 15 to 17 May 2024 at the universities in Borås (Sweden), UPC (Spain), PIN (Italy) and TUS (Ireland). The aim was to develop practical solutions to real challenges facing the textile industry. The German family-owned company Schmitz Textiles, a specialist in complete textile solutions for indoor and outdoor use, challenged students at the University of PIN in Prato to increase the recycled content of yarns for awning production to 100 per cent.
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Esquel and China Recycling Group sign strategic cooperation agreement
On April 23, 2025, Guangdong Esquel and China Recycling Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Wuxi, Jiangsu. The partnership aims to promote the recycling and reuse of waste textiles, supporting China’s carbon neutrality goals.
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Heimtextil expands mattress area with strong German brands - ‘Sleep & Meet’ area to be launched in 2026
Heimtextil, the leading international trade fair for home and contract textiles and textile design, is strategically expanding the Smart Bedding segment. A new exhibitor area will be created for the January 2026 edition: Sleep & Meet. This newly designed format will take up around a quarter of Hall 4.0. Numerous well-known brands from the mattress sector have already registered to take part.
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DOMOTEX maintains its leading market position
Preparations for DOMOTEX 2026 are in full swing, and the positive response to the new concept confirms the relevance of the world’s leading trade fair for carpets, flooring and interior finishing. The newly introduced participation formats, in particular, have been well received by the market. In addition, strong partners such as DECOR-UNION and MEGA have reaffirmed their cooperation with DOMOTEX.
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ANDRITZ spunlace line successfully started up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan
International technology group ANDRITZ has successfully started up a complete neXline spunlace line for International Paper LLC Uzbek at its plant in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
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Innovative sustainable fashion leader Liz Hershfield named Cotton Council International (CCI) Executive Director
Fashion industry veteran and sustainability expert Liz Hershfield will lead Cotton Council International (CCI), the export promotion arm of the National Cotton Council of America (NCC), as its new Executive Director. Hershfield succeeds Bruce Atherley, who retired at the end of March.
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