Innovation continues as impact investors take stock

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Textile innovations from the laboratory are still frequent, but are struggling to make the transition to commercial reality as the costs of scaling up, and the technical hurdles to do so, are starting to give impact investors get cold feet.

Scaling up promising new lab-scale textile technology will be the biggest challenge of the next decade.

Over the past few months, we’ve noticed that there’s been a renewed focus on new advances in textile wet processing, with a growing number of press releases and other enquiries winging their way into our newsroom.

Most notably, we recently heard from textile researchers at the University of Leeds in the UK claim to be working with a currently ‘unnamed US brand’ to design a new process that aims to significantly improve the environmental profile of polyester dyeing using a ‘reversible’ process.

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