MUNICH - A one day event focused on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is to be held before the Performance Days trade fair in Munich next year. Called 'Day 0', the event on 4th March is aimed predominantly at design and development teams who…
NEW DELHI - The Organic Cotton Accelerator (OCA) is bringing together farmers, brands, suppliers, manufacturers and public sector representatives at its stakeholder event in New Delhi this week in a bid to foster collaboration and accelerate…
Less than 1% of the 124 million tonnes of textiles produced globally in 2023 were the result of recycling pre- and post-consumer textile waste, according to Textile Exchange's recent Materials Market Report. This speaks volumes for the ambitions of…
AMSTERDAM - Cascale, formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, will highlight challenges faced by the apparel sector in complying with new sustainability legislation at a ‘Brand & Retail Forum’ in Brussels next month. Entitled ‘Policy dialogue in…
BRUSSELS – ReHubs, the Euratex-founded project aimed at upscaling textile waste recycling, has signed up as a strategic partner with AMI, organiser of next year’s Textiles Recycling Expo. The event, which will provide a platform for industry leaders…
MILAN – European Union (EU) funded initiatives continue to advance the development of sustainable circular textile supply chains in Europe, but face challenges related to performance, end-of-life processing, pricing, market differentiation, and…
PASADENA - Textile Exchange's annual conference has got underway here in Pasadena with an opening plenary session emphasising the value of collaboration in addressing the industry's challenges. "Change is not only timely, it's essential," Claire…
SHANGHAI – The Functional Textiles Shanghai (FTS) trade fair had a difficult birth, just as the world went into lockdown, but now seems to be finding its feet after its third full speed show last week. Based on, and licensed from, Munich’s…
CAMBRIDGE - The 1Oth annual European Outdoor Summit was held at the Cambridge Union Society, the oldest continuously running debating society in the world, which proved a masterstroke by organisers, the European Outdoor Group (EOG). It meant that…
BIELLA – The Natural Fibre Connect Conference brought together a diverse group of stakeholders dedicated to promoting sustainability within the textile industry, reports Amber van Unen from Biella, northern Italy. The event included an update on…
LONDON – Swiss non-profit The Sustainable Angle (TSA) has announced that its annual Future Fabrics Expo (FFE) will return later this month as part of London Climate Action Week. TSA says the event is the largest dedicated sourcing destination for…
SAN FRANCISCO – Cascale, formerly the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, will host a forum in Shanghai as part of a global series to address local sustainability challenges faced by manufacturers in the apparel industry. The event, to be staged on 28th…
AMSTERDAM – The ZDHC Foundation, which works towards the zero discharge of hazardous chemicals, will hold its Impact Day conference in Amsterdam next month under the theme ‘Chemistry in Fashion Transforming Business’. The one-day event, which will…
GENEVA – The Better Cotton initiative has announced the schedule for its annual conference in Istanbul on the 26th–27th of June. Over 200 stakeholders from across the cotton supply chain will discuss a range of issues across the cotton sector…
COPENHAGEN - Representatives from across the fashion sector will gather at the Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen this week to hear about steps being taken towards the transformative shifts required to advance sustainability across the industry.…
FRANKFURT - The technical textiles industry, which has developed at a relatively leisurely pace over the past century with a focus almost purely on functionality, is currently in the process of attempting to reinvent as many of its products as…
LONDON - The UN’s Global Compact (UNGC) UK initiative has launched a ‘Business Sector Exchange’ programme for the fashion industry. The exchange programme will take the form of training modules, networking events, assistance with sustainability…
FRANKFURT – Italian fibre and yarn manufacturer RadiciGroup is to show off the first garment made through its physical and digital nylon traceability project at the Techtextil trade show in Germany. The gilet, made from yarn manufactured in one of…
FRANKFURT – Messe Frankfurt has announced the winners of this year’s Techtextil and Texprocess Innovation Awards with several environmentally-friendly technology suppliers named among the recipients. Included in the 15-strong winners list is a vegan…
GOLD COAST - Regenerative agriculture and other practices aimed at making cotton production more sustainable will be among the issues under the spotlight at the Australian Cotton Conference later this year. A “record” number of industry stakeholders…
STOCKHOLM – The recent Climate Action Week series of webinars held by the Scandinavian Textile Initiative for Climate Action (STICA), provoked some hard talk from industry experts about exactly how, when, and if, the textile sector can reach its…
BOSTON – The Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) has partnered with PDS Ventures, the innovation and investment arm of apparel manufacturer PDS, to launch a new Trailblazer programme. The new initiative will work to identify early-stage innovators in the…
LONDON - Textile traceability specialist Trimco Group, recycling and sorting firm Tomra and software supplier Kezzler have joined forces to develop a new platform to help support sustainability in the fashion industry and the transition to…
STOCKHOLM - The Scandinavian Textile Initiative for Climate Action (STICA) has confirmed a new raft of speakers for its upcoming webinar series aimed at highlighting the challenges facing the apparel industry in reducing its carbon footprint.…
LONDON - The Microfibre Consortium (TMC) has launched a new online course to help textile manufacturers reduce the release of microfibres into wastewater during production processes. The course is made up of four modules, each based on the TMC's…
PARIS – Messe Frankfurt says the vast majority of buyers at the ongoing Texworld Evolution Paris trade fair this week, now ask exhibitors for products with sustainable attributes. Speaking to Ecotextile News at the event in Porte de Versailles,…
LEEDS – Figures from industry, academia and policy-making will attend a fashion sustainability symposium later this month, with the goal of harnessing wide-ranging expertise to propose new environmental and design frameworks. At the event, hosted by…
BREMEN – The global cotton industry will convene in the German city of Bremen for the International Cotton Conference in March, where a key topic will be will be a session analysing the recycling of textiles made of cotton and blended fibres as part…
PARIS - Messe Frankfurt will introduce its new Texpertise network sustainability initiative at next month's Texworld Evolution Paris. Branded as Econogy, a nod to the combination of economy and ecology, the new cross-fair initiative will act as an…
PARIS - The Première Vision Paris trade show has announced that it is to champion the repurposing of deadstock materials in the fashion industry's creative process for the first time. Organisers of the event want to embrace the 'revaluation' of…
In a new three-part sponsored series entitled, Threaded Together, podcast host Philip Berman looks at Cotton Incorporated's role in improving the sustainability of cotton in the textile industry. Cotton Incorporated a US-based, not-for-profit…
MUNICH – Amidst a dangerous decline in nature threatening the survival of one million species and impacting the lives of billions of people, issues surrounding biodversity were the main talking points of a series of events at the recent IPSO…
LONDON - Textile recycling company Circ, fashion company Tapestry and regenerative farming specialists British Pasture Leather have been named the recipients of Textile Exchanges's 2023 Ryan Young Climate+ Awards. The awards, announced at Textile…
BARCELONA - Europe’s sustainable clothing and textile sector currently faces a number of critical challenges such as fragmented supply chains, regulatory ambiguity, and insufficient data tools, a conference has heard. Delegates at the Ecosystex…
LONDON - Textile Exchange CEO Claire Bergkamp has opened the industry organisation's annual conference here in London with a plenary speech on the sustainability challenges facing the sector. With more than 1,300 people attending the event in…
NEW YORK - The Accelerating Circularity initiative will host two events during the upcoming Textile Exchange conference in London. Focusing on mechanically recycled cotton, it is hoped that both events will help catalyse new circular supply chains…
MANCHESTER - Sustainability and circularity in the global textile colouration sector will be the focus of an international conference next summer by the Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC). Taking place on the 18-19th June 2024 at Manchester…
BOSTON - Representatives from across the fashion industry gathered at the Global Fashion Summit in Boston this week to hear about the challenges, differences, and opportunities facing the sector as it moves towards a more sustainable value chain.…
NEW YORK - Circ and Colorifix, two companies working to tackle waste in the fashion and textile industry, have been selected as finalists for Prince William’s Earthshot Prize. Both companies have been nominated within the 'Build a Waste-Free World'…
MUNICH – The organising body of Munich’s Performance Days exhibition has outlined a series of new features designed to improve visitor access to the latest sustainable textile trends and developments. Taking place at the Messe München exhibition…
MUNICH - Organisers of the Performance Days trade show - to be held at the Messe Munich exhbition centre on 4th and 5th October - are pledging the event will highlight progress on fabric sustainability. They have unveiled their plans for the…
AMSTERDAM - An event staged in the Netherlands to promote the Bangladesh garment manufacturing industry has been disrupted by activists calling for justice for murdered trade unionist Shahidul Islam. Members of the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) and…
FRANKFURT - Messe Frankfurt is introducing a new sustainability initiative within its Texpertise network, which consists of some 50 fairs around the world. Branded as Econogy, a nod to the significance of economy and ecology, the new cross-fair…
SAN FRANCISCO – The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) has confirmed the return of its Manufacturer Forums, a series of events aimed at bringing together business leaders and stakeholders to learn how they can use the Higg Index suite of tools and…
TOKYO – Three UK-based researchers who have published several papers exploring the prevalence of textile-derived microfibres polluting waterways and wildlife populations have been recognised as winners of the 2023 Blue Planet Prize. Professor…
MILAN - Delegates at the Planet Textiles sustainability conference here in Milan were this morning treated to a sneak preview of a major new update to the Higg Facility Environmental Module (Higg FEM). Higg FEM 4.0 will enable data on CO2 emissions…
STOCKHOLM – Grant funding worth €2 million will be split equally between the ten fashion industry innovators selected as winners of the Global Change Award 2023, run annually by H&M Foundation. Novel materials and technological breakthroughs…
MILAN – Italian denim manufacturer Candiani has again won the Sustainable Innovation Award at the giant ITMA trade event in Italy. Candiani, which won the same award at the last event in 2019 in Barcelona, took the honour this time for the company's…
LONDON – Sustainability in British textile supply chains and environmental considerations around packaging are among the new themes to be explored at this year's Sustainable Angle and Future Fabrics Expo. The show has also partnered with non-profits…
MILAN - The 19th edition of ITMA - the world’s largest textile and garment technology trade event - has opened at the Fiera Milano Rho exhibition centre in the Italian city of Milan. Featuring more than 1,700 exhibitors from 47 countries, the event…
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