Textiles & Apparel / Garment
View Premium Selection - Successful season kick-off for VIEW Spring.Summer 25
Successful conclusion of the exclusive Preview Textile Show in Munich: around 250 international suppliers opened the season on 28 and 29 November and presented their latest trends and material developments for the Spring.Summer 25 season from the areas of Fabrics, Additionals, Denim and Sportswear – the first ever time the summer season was rung in under the roof of the Dampfdom at Motorworld Munich. An all-round successful kick-off in the run-up to the MUNICH FABRIC START in January 2024.
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Recycling
SOEX changed company name
With the approval of the advisory board, the company has changed its name as of November 1, 2023. The SOEX Group is pleased to announce that after years of focusing on the reuse and recycling of used textiles, the company is now changing its name to reflect its role as an established recycler on the market.
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Recycling
Purfi secures the Trends Impact Award for circular economy 2023!
At the recent Trends Impact Awards ceremony in Brussels Expo, Purfi was honored with the prestigious Trends Impact Award in the Circular Economy category. The event celebrated businesses that make significant sustainable impacts through their pioneering projects. Our win marks a significant achievement for our team, underlining our commitment to sustainable business practices.
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Recycling
HNST and Resortecs partner to launch Jeans designed for recycling
HNST Studio, the Antwerp-based label dedicated to creating jeans that embody transparency and circularity, partners with Belgian eco-design innovator Resortecs to launch new products made to be unmade—easy to disassemble for repair and recycling at the end of life.
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Heimtextil 2022
Trevira CS at Heimtextil 2024
The Trevira CS® brand will be presenting itself with 17 top customers and partners as well as an innovative special exhibition at Heimtextil, which takes place in Frankfurt from January 9 to 12, 2024. The joint stand is located in Hall 4.0 / Stand C15 together with the Indorama Ventures PCL stand.
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Composites
In a recent interview with Automotive News Carbon Revolution CEO, Jake Dingle, discussed plans to expand production globally, adding hundreds of thousands of units of annual production capacity of its lightweight carbon fibre automotive wheels.
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Patagonia has released its new STORMSHADOW PARKA, the warmest jacket of their current offerings. The jacket is also the first product in-market to feature new material innovation from the GORE-TEX Brand and Bionic, delivering on the brands’ shared values of turning garbage into good.
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Retail & Brands
Boston-based global athletic leader New Balance broke ground at the future site of New Balance Londonderry, as the company adds New Hampshire to its New England locations for its sixth U.S. athletic footwear manufacturing facility.
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Solar panels are being promoted as one of the best methods to produce green energy. As a result, in addition to wind energy facilities, solar panels are starting to take up space no open pasture across the world. How will affect the grazing patterns of livestock – in particular, sheep? International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) offers a sneak peek at research conducted by Emma Kampherbeek, MSc., Dr. Zachary McFarlane, Dr. Laura Webb, and Dr. Seeta Sistla, which sets out to answer this question.
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In autumn, a delegation from the Peruvian Precotex group visited Mayer & Cie. at its Albstadt-Tailfingen headquarters. Mayer & Cie. took the opportunity to talk with CEO Dante Villalva Munive about Precotex which has been active in the market since 1996 and is now a fully integrated company with various business units, serving customers in the Americas, Europe and Asia for private labels in full package mode, exporting fabrics to LATAM, providing industrial textile services, and also handles the knitting process in a large in-house knitting mill. Some 55 percent of the machines running there come from Mayer & Cie with plans to increase capacity in the next six months.
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New raw material and design technologies will enable tire makers to increase revenue, despite challenging market conditions, according to Smithers latest exclusive market forecasting. Data from its new report – The Future of Global Tires to 2028 – reveal sales are continuing on a post-Covid recovery trajectory. The market will be worth a projected $262.2 billion in 2023, with a total of 2.47 billion tires sold worldwide.
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From 3-6 December, the city of Montréal, Canada will host the 2023 edition of International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO)’s annual Wool Round Table. This is the first IWTO event to be held in Canada, in partnership with our member the Canadian Wool Council and the Campaign for Wool Canada.
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C&A launched its Spring/Summer 2024 collection “Finding Beauty in Chaos” in its very own denim factory in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The collection was presented to pan-European press, media partners and influencers.
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Startup WILLTEX will exhibit its “WILLCOOK” smart textile at CES 2024
On November 15th, the Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced the honorees of the CES 2024 Innovation Awards. The Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) will once again sponsor the Japan (J-Startup) Pavilion at CES’ startup arena Eureka Park from January 9-12 in Las Vegas, and this year six of the Japan (J-Startup) Pavilion exhibitors have been designated CES Innovation Award honorees.
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Textile Exchange publicly launches eTrackit – An electronic traceability offering for its certified materials
30 November, London – Textile Exchange has announced the launch of Electronic Trackit, or eTrackit, for its first commercial application, covering the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and the Recycled Content Standard (RCS).
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Champion® Athleticwear unveils new reverse weave iconic styles with CiCLO® technology to reduce microplastic pollution
Today, Champion® Athleticwear, the iconic lifestyle brand born from sport in 1919, announced its newest innovation: Eco Future Reverse Weave with CiCLO® technology, a patented and science-based solution that allows synthetic textiles to behave more like natural fibers when they enter the environment.
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GOTS Pilot Project creates pathway for small operators to attain certification
In a pioneering initiative aimed at enhancing accessibility to certification for small operator groups within the organic textile value chain, the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is pleased to introduce its ongoing Controlled Supply Chain Scheme Pilot Project. The project, launched in 2022, was strategically developed to overcome the obstacles that often deter small-scale operators from pursuing GOTS certification.
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Innovation for more sustainable textile coatings
Climate protection requires the industry to gradually move away from petroleum and other fossil raw materials and instead use raw materials from renewable sources. That’s why Covestro is increasingly relying on alternative raw materials, including those from biomass. For example, the company offers a new aliphatic polyester carbonate polyether polyurethane (PU) dispersion for textile coating under the name Impranil® CQ DLU, in which around 34 percent of the carbon contained is of plant origin. Impranil® CQ DLU expands the existing range of partially bio-based dispersions for textile coating with a product whose purely petroleum-based variant Impranil® DLU is very popular with customers.
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Optimal outlook for Techtextil and Texprocess 2024: a high level of demand and internationality coupled with an outstanding degree of innovation
The international textile industry is ready to look to the future at Techtextil and Texprocess from 23 to 26 April 2024. These two leading trade fairs are hotspots for innovations, textile solutions and networking. With over 1,600 exhibitors from around 50 countries, Techtextil and Texprocess reflect the extraordinary degree of innovation prevailing in the sectors.
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Dyeing, Drying, Finishing
Mohan Spintex - fastest growing textile company in India invests in world class machinery
Founded in 2005, Mohan Spintex India Limited (MSIL) is one of the fastest growing textile companies in India in the last decade. Sudhakar Chowdary, the young and dynamic Managing Director, has led Mohan Spintex with a vision through its exponential growth to become the second-largest textile company from Andhra Pradesh. By the turn of this decade the company will be without doubt among the top with a large global presence.
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NatureWorks appoints Erik Ripple new President and CEO
Today NatureWorks, a leading manufacturer of polylactic acid (PLA) biopolymers made from renewable resources, announced the appointment of Erik Ripple as the company’s new President and Chief Executive Officer. Ripple will succeed interim President and CEO, Jill Zullo, who has served in the role since March 2023 when former CEO, Rich Altice, retired from NatureWorks. Ripple comes to NatureWorks from Nexeon, Ltd. in the United Kingdom, a manufacturer of silicon carbide composites for electric vehicle batteries. As Chief Strategy Officer, he led the commercial, engineering, and program teams enabling the launch of their first commercial product to battery manufacturers.
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UNGC SDG Innovation Accelerator Year-End Ceremony, highlights the young professionals as future leaders
On November 21, the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) organized its Year-end Ceremony of the SDG Innovation Accelerator for Young Professionals, at Integral. The initiative encourages young professionals to create sustainability-related solutions for a better tomorrow.
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New technical textiles website for South America
Freudenberg Performance Materials is launching americadosul.freudenberg-pm.com – a website dedicated to the South American markets. For decision makers in the apparel, shoe and other technical industries, information on the regional presence of one of the world-leading suppliers and its portfolio of technical textiles and textile technologies is now just a few clicks away.
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ECOSYSTEX and CISUTAC at WhiteCycle Workshop
On 28 November, in a collaborative effort to drive sustainability and circularity in the European textile industry, ECOSYSTEX and CISUTAC were presented at the first workshop of WhiteCycle, hosted at Michelin's R&D facilities in Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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H&M Group drives the agenda on collaborative financing solutions for impactful climate action
H&M Group is taking a leadership position in establishing collaborative financing solutions that enable the necessary decarbonisation of fashion supply chains. To realise this ambition, H&M Group, together with Southeast Asia’s largest bank, DBS, has initiated a collaborative finance tool – a first-of-its-kind green loan programme that facilitates supply chain decarbonisation in the apparel sector.
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HeiQ welcomes Robert van de Kerkhof to its Board of Directors
HeiQ, a leading company in materials innovation and hygiene technologies, is pleased to announce the appointment of Robert van de Kerkhof as Non-Executive Director, with effect from 1 January 2024 to the board of HeiQ plc and as Chairman of the Environmental, Occupation, Health & Safety and Sustainability Committee. Robert will also be appointed to the board of HeiQ AeoniQ Holding AG (in Switzerland), a subsidiary of HeiQ plc.
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Better protection for female firefighters - IAW and ITA receive BMI „Helfende Hand 2023“ funding award
Firefighter protective clothing for women does not fit well - the clothing is primarily designed for men and is often too wide at the shoulders, too tight on the upper body and too long on the arms and legs. Women firefighters have less confidence in their protective clothing and a higher risk of accidents.
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Sorting for circularity India toolkit launched: Pioneering partnership sets India on path to next-gen textiles leadership
Leveraging insights from Wealth in Waste, Fashion for Good releases a toolkit designed to revalorise textile waste in India. Celebrating the closure of the Sorting for Circularity India Project, a conference in New Delhi on December 1 and 2, hosted in collaboration with Laudes Foundation, IDH, Canopy, and Reverse Resources will focus on developing a roadmap to circularity. The event marks the launch of “Re-START”, a textile recovery alliance aiming to position India as a leading Next-Gen solutions hub.
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