Ecotextile News e-newsletter 12.02.15

By Stacey Dove
12 February 2015

Ecotextile News e-bulletin

Thursday 12 February 2015

Report: UK textiles worth up to £11bn

LONDON – The most comprehensive piece of research on UK textile manufacturing for two decades has found that up to £11bn worth of textiles are being manufactured in the country – placing the UK in the top 15 textile manufacturing countries globally and suggesting that reports of the death of the UK textiles industry may have been greatly exaggerated.

Bluesign conference welcomes textiles industry

The fourth conference from sustainable textiles company bluesign technologies will be held in July. For the first time the conference is not invitation only, and bluesign has opened up registration to interested delegates from throughout the textile production, chemicals, and supply chain management industries.

Inditex bans angora products

Inditex, the world’s largest clothing retailer is to ban angora wool products permanently — and is to send 20,000 brand-new angora sweaters, coats, and other garments with a value of almost US $900,000 to Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

Snowboard fashion turns to recycling

Recycling is now playing key role in the production of technical high quality snowboard fashion, with beer cans, fishing nets and reusable EPS foam from the automobile industry just a few of the products incorporated into textile products on display at sports trade fair ISPO. Ecotextile News reports from Munich.

Barcodes may benefit textile recycling

A study commissioned by WRAP to evaluate the use of technology in sorting end-of-life textiles has concluded that a 2D barcode, which carries information about the garment, could increase the volume of clothing and household textiles that are re-processed or recycled in a financially viable way.

CAREERS IN TEXTILES – NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES

Careers in Textiles

MAHARAM – TEXTILE ENGINEER – NEW YORK, USA

The position requires working closely with resources to address issues that arise in new development, or with quality assurance on existing textile products.

CMiA moves into Uganda

More than 5000 smallholder farmers from Uganda are now benefiting from the Aid by Trade Foundation’s Cotton made in Africa initiative after the successful verification of the Western Uganda Cotton Company and its cooperating cotton farmers.

New sustainable textile design strategies

A new toolkit from the Textile Futures Research Centre aims to support fashion designers, buyers and textile designers in defining the sustainable impact of garments, and moving towards a circular economy.

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