Dyeing, Drying, Finishing

2025-06-19

NTB’s unique Monforts MONTEX business gets a full upgrade

As a highly specialised company with a focus on excellence in the provision of fabric coating and finishing services, NOVA Textil-Beschichtung GmbH (NTB) has recently benefited from an extensive Monforts modernisation programme. NTB’s relationship with Monforts dates back to the company’s formation, with the 1999 installation of a first MONTEX stenter at its plant in Grefrath, Germany – just 30 kilometres away from the Monforts HQ in Mönchengladbach. At that time, the NTB team consisted of just three people at a 1,000 square metre site.

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Sustainability

2025-06-19

Over 200,000 plastic bottles kept out of the Mediterranean thanks to Aerelle® Blue

ADVANSA, in collaboration with Plastic Bank, has successfully prevented more than 200,000 plastic bottles from entering the Mediterranean Sea in just one year. This achievement is made possible through Aerelle® Blue, a sustainable comfort fibre made from recycled plastic bottles.

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Nonwovens / Technical Textiles

2025-06-19

Early bird registration for EDANA’s Sustainability & Policy Forum is now open

EDANA is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Sustainability & Policy Forum 2025, the premier platform for professionals across the nonwovens value chain to explore, discuss, and shape the sustainable future of our industry.

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Spinning

2025-06-19

FET’s game changer for the biomedical market

A much more sustainable, cost effective and very flexible process for manufacturing critical fibres based on ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is being launched by the UK’s Fibre Extrusion Technologies (FET).

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Textiles & Apparel / Garment

2025-06-19

Carnet redefines modern tailoring at Pitti Uomo with an immersive new concept

Since 1865, Carnet, a division of the Ratti Group, has been weaving stories of elegance and craftsmanship. Today, drawing on this legacy, it redefines the language of tailoring in a contemporary key, transforming the selection of a fabric into an immersive and surprising experience.

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Textile processing

2025-06-19

Garment Tech Istanbul exhibition prepares to bring together leading brands of the garment industry with global buyers

Garment Tech Istanbul Exhibition, Turkiye's only and most comprehensive meeting point in the field of garment and ready-to-wear is preparing to open its doors at the Istanbul Expo Center between 25-28 June 2025. The exhibition, which will host leading manufacturers, professional visitors and investors from all over the world, will offer unmissable opportunities for companies that want to renew their machines, expand their capacity and gain competitive advantage with the latest technologies.

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Recycling / Circular Economy

2025-06-19

Circulose partners with Mango to build circularity at scale

Circulose has partnered with Mango as the first Scaling Partners since the restart, a major step toward accelerating the adoption of circular materials in the global fashion industry.

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Research & Development

2025-06-19

TERNAfil wins 1st place in AC² Start-Up Competition

Great news from ITA institute: The spin-off team TERNAfil was awarded 1st place in the “Pitch & PitchDeck” category of the AC² Start-Up Competition 2024/2025! The award ceremony was held on June 5 in the historic Coronation Hall of Aachen’s Town Hall – a special setting for an important milestone.

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2025-06-19

Serendipity, AI and Circularity: EDANA Innovation Forum 2025 inspires bold ideas for the nonwovens sector

EDANA’s Innovation Forum 2025, held on 11–12 June in Station F, Paris, brought together a vibrant cross-section of industry leaders, researchers, startups and innovation experts to explore the dynamic evolution of the nonwovens sector. With a rich two-day agenda that combined high-level keynote addresses, thematic sessions, research showcases and networking events, the Forum served as a hub for ideation, collaboration and inspiration around the sector’s most urgent challenges and exciting opportunities.

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Yarn & Fiber

2025-06-19

Woolmark and COLOURizd™ introduce clean, low carbon QuantumCOLOUR™ textile colouring solution for wool

Woolmark, the global authority on wool, has teamed up with COLOURizd™, pioneers in dry textile colouring processes, to introduce a revolutionary new method to colour wool and wool blends.

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Textiles & Apparel / Garment

2025-06-19

Expanded halls, new product zones: VIATT 2026 unlocks broader opportunities

The Vietnam International Trade Fair for Apparel, Textiles and Textile Technologies (VIATT) is poised to return to the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) from 26 to 28 February 2026. Building on its second edition’s nearly 13% exhibitor growth, next year’s show floor will expand by 20%, from 15,000 to 18,000 sqm and cover the full area of Halls A and B. This includes new dedicated zones for apparel, fashion accessories, and textile chemicals and dyes, with the strategic growth underscoring Vietnam’s emergence as a vertically and horizontally integrated textile powerhouse.

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Composites

2025-06-19

KONGSBERG and HEXCEL sign a long-term partnership agreement

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (KONGSBERG) and HEXCEL Corporation (HEXCEL) have signed a long-term partnership agreement at the Paris Air Show for the supply of HexWeb® engineered honeycombs and HexPly® prepregs for KONGSBERG’s strategic production programs over a five-year period.

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Sustainability

2025-06-19

Fashion for Good and Altmat to accelerate adoption of next-gen fibres through Altag® Fibre Club

Fashion for Good announces today a strategic partnership with Altmat, a pioneering materials science company transforming agricultural waste into high-value materials, to advance its innovative Fibre Club initiative. Altag® Fibre Club is designed to fast-track the commercial adoption of next-generation fi bres from agri-residue at scale, supporting the industry's transition toward circular materials.

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Associations

2025-06-17

Textile Machinery at Milano Unica

At the next edition of Milano Unica, the leading international trade fair for high-end fabrics and accessories, scheduled to take place at Rho Fiera Milano from July 8 to 10, ACIMIT (the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers) will participate for the first time with an institutional booth.

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Spinning

2025-06-12

Overcoming labor shortage in Vietnam: Tra Ly Hung Yen Spinning

It’s hard to find skilled operators for spinning mills in Vietnam. Rapid industrialization is creating competition for young talents and many workers choose roles in other industries. Customer Tra Ly Hung Yen has found a partner in Trützschler to help mitigate the effects of this labor shortage and enable successful operations.

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Nonwovens / Technical Textiles

2025-06-12

INDA and EDANA Boards approve formation of the Global Nonwoven Alliance (GNA)

The Boards of Directors of INDA and EDANA have officially approved the formation of the Global Nonwoven Alliance (GNA) and have concurrently agreed to become its founding members. Both Boards have also approved a motion authorizing each organization to appoint six representatives from each founding organization – current chair and 5 additional representatives.

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Older News

Weaving

2025-06-12

Pattern-controlled “pic-a-pic” setting of rapier release timing on right-hand side

DORNIER PIRO enables the operator to set the timing of the rapier release on the right-hand side of the machine “pic-a-pic” and pattern-controlled. For applications with weft yarns of different fineness or elasticity, the optimum timing can be set for each weft channel. This offers great potential for reducing weft waste on the right-hand side.

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Recycling / Circular Economy

2025-06-12

Reju COO Alain Poincheval Appointed Chairman of Petcore Europe’s Textile SIG

Reju has announced that Alain Poincheval, the company’s Chief Operations Officer, has been appointed Chairman of the Textile Special Industry Group (SIG) at Petcore Europe, the leading Brussels-based association representing the PET value chain in Europe.

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Recycling / Circular Economy

2025-06-12

DePoly wins SEF award for Deep Tech Innovation in PET Recycling

At the 2025 Swiss Economic Forum (SEF), held in Sion, Switzerland, advanced recycling company DePoly was awarded the top prize in the Deep Tech / Life Sciences category—further cementing its position as a key player in the circular materials space.

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Recycling / Circular Economy

2025-06-12

tExtended 6th plenary meeting sets strategic priorities for next phase

On 20th and 21st May 2025, tExtended partners have gathered for the sixth plenary meeting in Turku, in Finland. The meeting happened on the thirty-sixth month of work of the tExtended project, and it has been hosted by LSJH at Forum Marinum, in Turku. The meeting has been held over two days, and it has brought together representatives from all the project consortium, coming from 10 different European countries.

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Recycling / Circular Economy

2025-06-12

HKRITA and Epson develop silk-like regenerated fiber from cotton

The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel ("HKRITA") and Seiko Epson Corporation ("Epson"; TSE: 6724) have succeeded in developing new regenerated cellulose fiber with a silk-like sheen from waste cotton fabric through a new production process.

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Spinning

2025-06-12

Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Textiles visits Graf in Rapperswil

Frrok Prenka, CEO of Graf, welcomed Orazgeldiyev Nurmuhammet, Minister of the Ministry of Textiles of Turkmenistan, along with a delegation of leading textile experts to the company’s headquarters in Rapperswil, Switzerland.

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Recycling / Circular Economy

2025-06-12

TOMRA Recycling appoints Katrin Fricke as its new Head and Executive Vice President (EVP)

TOMRA Recycling has announced the appointment of Katrin Fricke as its new Executive Vice President (EVP) and Head of TOMRA Recycling, effective June 1, 2025. Katrin succeeds Dr. Volker Rehrmann, who earlier this year announced his retirement from TOMRA after an exceptional career spanning over two decades with the business.

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Yarn & Fiber

2025-06-12

Spinnova updates its strategy

Spinnova announced on 28 February 2025 that it started to review its strategy, post Suzano’s announcement that the company decided not to continue to invest into the next steps of collaboration with Spinnova.

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Raw Materials

2025-06-12

Better Cotton announces Nick Weatherill as New CEO

Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has announced Nick Weatherill as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). A former Executive Director of the International Cocoa Initiative (ICI), where he led efforts to drive impactful, scalable solutions across the cocoa supply chain, he replaces Alan McClay, who has been leading the not-for-profit organisation for the past decade.

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News Archive
2025-06-12

Cotton Incorporated hosts global dialogue in Hong Kong to lead cotton forward

2025-06-12

A/W 2026-2027 inspirations from Texworld Apparel Sourcing Paris

2025-06-12

BASF starts up new world-scale plant for hexamethylenediamine in Chalampé and expands PA 6.6 polymerization in Freiburg

2025-06-12

Technologies that shape the garment industry meet at Garment Tech Istanbul exhibition

2025-06-12

Refiberd announced as winner of Trailblazer Programme 2025 at Global Fashion Summit

2025-06-12

Global fashion leaders descend on Copenhagen to unveil new sustainability insights and initiatives

2025-06-12

Driving the future of textiles: RE&UP sparks momentum at Global Fashion Summit and Textiles Recycling Expo

2025-06-12

Ternua continues their commitment to circularity with a SS 2026 collection where 70% of the garments are mono-material

2025-06-12

Pincroft strengthens growth strategy with new appointment

2025-06-12

Antiviral tests on protective clothing for infection control

2025-06-12

Recover and TextileGenesis collaborate to verify supply chain integrity of recycled materials

2025-06-12

Textile Exchange reports progress and transformation in 2024 Annual Report

2025-06-12

Global textile value chain: Between stagnation and uneven recovery

2025-06-05

HKUST & Esquel unveil five-year study: Empowering students for sustainable innovation

2025-06-05

Registration opens for RISE® 2025: The future of nonwovens innovation and sustainability

2025-06-05

Autoneum appoints new Head Corporate Communications

2025-06-05

Suiting up Team Sonnenwagen with more sustainable sportswear created through a three-way partnership

2025-06-05

RE&UP becomes first company in the textile industry to achieve C2C Certified® Circularity for all products

2025-06-05

Hexcel presents lightweight aerospace composite innovations at 55th International Paris Air Show

2025-06-05

Tour de LOOP Exclusive specialist trip to Chemnitz – textile art and design in the European Capital of Culture 2025

2025-06-05

Next week's Intertextile Shenzhen and Yarn Expo Shenzhen fringe events to promote eco-friendly and innovative fashion textile solutions

2025-06-05

How T-Shirt & Sons transformed production with the Kornit Apollo

2025-06-05

The ICAC releases its 2025/26 world cotton market projections

2025-06-05

Dr Charudatta Mayee is the 2025 ICAC Researcher of the Year

2025-06-03

Growing with a vision: BRÜCKNER opens branch office in India

2025-06-03

Aid by Trade Foundation turns 20, invests half a million Euros in new biodiversity fund

2025-06-03

ATP promotes Portuguese Textile Industry at Expo 2025 Osaka with “TEXTILE LIVE” Installation

2025-06-03

Fashion For Good and Arvind Limited launch future forward factories India

2025-05-30

Stäubli group expands manufacturing footprint in India with renewable energy connectors

2025-05-30

Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles – Autumn Edition 2025: meeting market evolution through 15+ product zones and refreshed fringe programme

2025-05-29

Ten bold ideas to decarbonise fashion: Meet the winners of Global Change Award 2025

2025-05-29

Pioneering EU funded T-REX Project celebrates completion and Rreveals blueprint for scaling textile-to-textile recycling in Europe

2025-05-29

EEA Scientific Committee elects new chair and vice-chairs

2025-05-29

Researchers develop living material from fungi

2025-05-29

Ratti named among Europe's and Italy’s top sustainability leaders for 2025

2025-05-29

Under Armour and UNLESS debuted compostable sportswear at Milan Design Week

2025-05-29

Infinited Fiber Company enters the next strategic phase under new leadership

2025-05-29

CiCLO technology reduces lasting microplastic pollution while keeping signage durable and eye-catching

2025-05-29

CARBIOS signs its first biorecycled PET sales contracts with two global cosmetics leaders

2025-05-28

Expanding options at JPF with Monforts dual heating

2025-05-28

Empowering progress in textiles at Techtextil North America and Texprocess Americas 2025

2025-05-28

The newest Lonati DC88 DE 2H2 presented in Japan

2025-05-28

Lenzing strengthens Managing Board with Georg Kasperkovitz as Chief Operations Officer

2025-05-28

AATCC’s Circularity Conference approaches as organization continues 2025 Sustainable Textile Event series

2025-05-28

UNIFI® announces the sale of manufacturing facility

2025-05-28

Lenzing AG successfully signs syndicated loan of EUR 545 million

2025-05-28

Indorama Ventures expands deja(TM) portfolio to boost textile industry sustainability

2025-05-28

The 151st General Meeting of the Bremen Cotton Exchange on 26 June 2025

2025-05-28

Launch of the first JEC Forum Middle East

2025-05-27

Uster Technologies wins another infringement lawsuit

2025-05-22

TRUECYCLED yarn is driving sustainability in Lotus cars

2025-05-22

YKK makes the switch to 100% low-carbon aluminum for use in aluminum alloy zippers

2025-05-22

Impact resistance meets thermal insulation lightweight composite impact protection plate for electric vehicle batteries

2025-05-22

EUR 2.8 million project for climate-resilient agriculture in Africa

2025-05-22

Global Standard expands scope, leverages AI innovation, and amplifies global engagement

2025-05-22

New high-performance polyester fabric with a natural fiber-like texture and appearance

2025-05-22

Lenzing AG successfully signs syndicated loan of EUR 545 million

2025-05-22

Lenzing’s VEOCEL™ champions sustainable innovation at IDEA25 and CIDPEX

2025-05-22

Hemp for a sustainable future

2025-05-22

Reuters: Circ to build landmark €450 million textile recycling plant in France

2025-05-22

Reju announces the selection of Regeneration Hub One

2025-05-22

Jeanologia brings the creative revolution of denim to Kingpins China

2025-05-22

2025 INDA Supply Report shows North American Nonwovens Industry’s continued growth with a focus on sustainability

2025-05-22

Kornit Digital and MAS ACME USA sign Strategic Partnership

2025-05-21

Texworld Apparel Sourcing Paris 2025

2025-05-20

Mayer & Cie makes circular knitting machines IoT-ready

2025-05-19

Archroma reimagines iconic denim for a cleaner future

2025-05-19

Groundbreaking architectural projects using natural fibres

2025-05-15

Uster Technologies introduces its new fiber process control system

2025-05-15

Sustainable fashion: ANDRITZ tearing line starts up at Pacific Jeans, Bangladesh

2025-05-15

Lifetime awards at IDEA®25 and FiltXPO™ 2025

2025-05-15

Better Cotton joins policy hub coalition to contribute to regulatory discussions

2025-05-15

Trevira CS® celebrates 45 years at Clerkenwell Design Week 2025

2025-05-15

Major recycling partnership to tackle waste crisis in Mali

2025-05-15

ADVA®TEX 100% textile-to textile recycling 100% sustainable comfort

2025-05-15

Garment Tech Istanbul Exhibition: a global hub for buyers and international visitors

2025-05-15

Turning waste into value: Borealis delivers circular breakthroughs in 2024

2025-05-15

Navis TubeTex partners with Pluvia to deliver expanded sales and support

2025-05-15

Durak Poly-Strong PC-IR perfects camouflage invisibility

2025-05-15

XLANCE® introduces a new generation of high-performance stretch denim at PV Denim Milan

2025-05-15

More key upgrades to drive business, innovation and sustainability at Cinte Techtextil China 2025

2025-05-15

Vacuum insulation panels rethought - Adjustable, tailored to needs, flexible

2025-05-15

SHIMA SEIKI announces partnership with Lonati

2025-05-15

Ahlstrom introduces Optipad™

2025-05-15

Italian Textile Machinery: Orders continue to fall in first quarter 2025

2025-05-15

Recover™ and Intradeco announce strategic joint venture to enhance recycledcotton fiber production in Central America

2025-05-14

Eight out of ten denim mills prefer Monforts

2025-05-14

Last chance to join EDANA’s Innovation Forum

2025-05-12

New leadership for Swiss Textile Machinery Association

2025-05-09

International practical experience for textile students

2025-05-08

Esquel and China Recycling Group sign strategic cooperation agreement

2025-05-08

Heimtextil expands mattress area with strong German brands - ‘Sleep & Meet’ area to be launched in 2026

2025-05-08

DOMOTEX maintains its leading market position

2025-05-08

ANDRITZ spunlace line successfully started up in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

2025-05-08

Innovative sustainable fashion leader Liz Hershfield named Cotton Council International (CCI) Executive Director

2025-05-08

Lenzing achieves significant revenue and earnings growth within a deteriorating market environment

2025-05-08

Laly Lichtenfeld joins AbTF Board of Trustees

2025-05-08

Reju announces strategic partnerships with Utexa in Central America and Antex in Europe

2025-05-08

Magnera reports Q2 results, adjusts full-year outlook

2025-05-08

Timely report highlights regional trends ahead of Cascale Forum in Vietnam