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Leading MSIs 'failing to engage suppliers'

Leading MSIs 'failing to engage suppliers'

GLOBAL - Cascale, Textile Exchange, the Social & Labor Convergence Program (SLCP) and Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) are failing to engage fashion suppliers in their efforts to reduce the industry's impacts, according to a new report. Entitled ...

New shared risk model for fashion’s future

New shared risk model for fashion’s future

UTRECHT - The fashion system needs a new approach that emphasises collaboration between buyers and suppliers, which a new report terms “shared risk”. This involves buyers and suppliers sharing production risks and rewards by using data science for better planning and ...

WRC accuses Shein over garment factory closure

WRC accuses Shein over garment factory closure

GUATEMALA CITY - Worker rights campaigners have criticised Chinese-owned ultra fast fashion giant Shein for failing to protect workers at a former garment factory in Guatemala which supplied a brand it part owns. The US-based Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) says the ...

Ecotextile News e-bulletin

Wednesday 22 April 2015

Performance Days

Nike comes under fire for TPP email

Global sports brand Nike has come under fire for emailing its 44,000 staff to ask them to lobby for the Trans-Pacific Partnership – a pending global free trade agreement which many claim will make it easier for US companies to offshore jobs to low-wage countries which lack effective labour regulations.

RITE Group conference confirms speakers

VF Corp's vice president Sean Cady has been announced as one of the keynote speakers at sustainable fashion industry collaboration RITE Group's conference, titled ' The Emperor's New Clothes,' to be held at the University of Leeds in June.

New sustainable textile award for Munich

Functional textiles fair Performance Days will showcase the winner of its new sustainable development award later this month.

American Eagle in recycled denim partnership

Leading US apparel brand American Eagle is working with a housing charity to recycle used and unwanted denim into building materials which will be used in affordable homes.

Dystar launches new eco shade

Sustainable textile auxiliaries and colorants supplier Dystar has launched a new neutral black shade which is said to be free of p-chloroaniline (PCA) and other regulatory-controlled amines.

CAREERS IN TEXTILES

Register as a jobseeker, or get in touch to advertise your vacancy at Careers in Textiles.

Fashion sustainability seminars from FIT

A four-day series of lectures, discussions, site visits, and hands-on workshops focusing on sustainability and technology in fashion and textiles will be hosted by the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, in June.

Find out more and see the full programme here

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo is one of the largest sourcing events in North America to solely focus on fabrics and finished soft goods for all home applications.

Held annually in July alongside Texworld USA and the International Apparel Sourcing Show, the exposition provides manufacturers, retailers, buyers, and designers, a one-stop sourcing venue for new fabrics and products, as well as hosting a variety of seminars.

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo will be held 21-23 July 2015 at the Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, New York, USA.

NEW ISSUE: Ecotextile News Apr/May 2015

Eyeing up future solutions: Phil Patterson on dye colouration advances, Shore thing? New comprehensive UK textile manufacturing research, Ali Enterprise legal wrangle, Two Minutes with... Janne Poranen, CEO, Spinnova, Denim technology round-up, Textile pollutants in Eastern Europe, A new column from Jason Kibbey, CEO, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, gives an update on the organisation's key activities in 2015, Pamela Ravasio discusses the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the growth of sustainability, Kering shares EP&L findings, Nanotechnology update, Rana Paza anniversary - what's changed? Cotton Horizons - a new regular feature on cotton and sustainability, and all the latest news, insight, and analysis.

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Texworld USA

Ecotextile News e-bulletin

Wednesday 15 April 2015

Performance Days

Sustainability makes financial sense in NRDC initiative

An initiative aimed at making textile mills in China more environmentally friendly while slashing their operating costs is set to ramp up its activities after recording some notable achievements in 2014. Target, Gap, Levi Strauss and H&M are among the brands working with the NRDC's Clean By Design programme.

Adidas targets for workers' rights

A supply chain project from adidas Group, which allows garment workers to send text messages about their rights concerns, is set to become available to more than 250,000 employees by the end of the year.

Study doubts wool's LCA rating

New research suggests wool could be scoring poorly in rating systems such as the Sustainable Apparel Coalition's Higg Index and Made-By's Environmental Benchmark due to misrepresentative, h life cycle assessments upon which wool's environmental score is currently based.

Crailar announces US$8M loss

Crailar, the North American-based flax fibre manufacturer, has announced a net loss of US $8.2 million on sales of US $1.9m for the fourth quarter of 2014.

European Outdoor Summit adds speakers

Representatives from textile industry players such as Berghaus and W.L. Gore have been confirmed as speakers for the forthcoming European Outdoor Summit exhibition in Sheffield, alongside former Olympic athlete and UK politician Lord Seb Coe.

CAREERS IN TEXTILES

MAHARAM - TEXTILE ENGINEER - NEW YORK, USA

Maharam is seeking a Textile Engineer for its New York City location who will work in the Maharam Design Studio to research and develop new products. Apply here today.

Register as a jobseeker, or get in touch to advertise your vacancy at Careers in Textiles.

Kering confirms share of EP&L

Kering, whose brands include Gucci, Puma, and Volcom, has reiterated its claim that it will share its Environmental Profit and Loss methodology with the textiles industry.

Home textiles sourcing event

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo is one of the largest sourcing events in North America to solely focus on fabrics and finished soft goods for all home applications.

Held annually in July alongside Texworld USA and the International Apparel Sourcing Show, the exposition provides manufacturers, retailers, buyers, and designers, a one-stop sourcing venue for new fabrics and products, as well as hosting a variety of seminars.

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo will be held 21-23 July 2015 at the Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, New York, USA.

NEW ISSUE: Ecotextile News Apr/May 2015

Eyeing up future solutions: Phil Patterson on dye colouration advances, Shore thing? New comprehensive UK textile manufacturing research, Ali Enterprise legal wrangle, Two Minutes with... Janne Poranen, CEO, Spinnova, Denim technology round-up, Textile pollutants in Eastern Europe, A new column from Jason Kibbey, CEO, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, gives an update on the organisation's key activities in 2015, Pamela Ravasio discusses the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the growth of sustainability, Kering shares EP&L findings, Nanotechnology update, Rana Paza anniversary - what's changed? Cotton Horizons - a new regular feature on cotton and sustainability, and all the latest news, insight, and analysis.

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Texworld USA

Ecotextile News e-bulletin

Wednesday 8 April 2015

Performance Days

Patagonia invests in chemical technology

Outdoor apparel giant Patagonia has announced a new investment in sustainable textile technology company Beyond Surface Technologies, developers of textile treatments "based on natural raw materials."

Dystar phases out Colour Index

Sustainable textile auxiliaries and colorants supplier Dystar Group has announced the company is to phase out the use of its Colour Index, citing ecological reasons.

New living wage online platform

The Fair Wear Foundation has launched a new Living Wage Portal, which aims to assist member brands and groups throughout the textile supply to overcome obstacles that prevent garment workers from earning a living wage.

Global day for fashion transparency

The second Fashion Revolution Day will be held later this month, marking the two year anniversary of the Rana Plaza building collapse, which killed more than 1100 garment workers.

Textiles fair focuses on wool

The next edition of functional textiles fair Performance Days is set to host a range of sustainability seminars following the previous show's record number of visitors.

CAREERS IN TEXTILES

MAHARAM - TEXTILE ENGINEER - NEW YORK, USA

Maharam is seeking a Textile Engineer for its New York City location who will work in the Maharam Design Studio to research and develop new products. Apply here today.

Register as a jobseeker, or get in touch to advertise your vacancy at Careers in Textiles.

Bluesign conference registration open

Registration has now opened for the fourth bluesign technologies conference, to be held in Switzerland 13–14 July.

Home textiles sourcing event

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo is one of the largest sourcing events in North America to solely focus on fabrics and finished soft goods for all home applications.

Held annually in July alongside Texworld USA and the International Apparel Sourcing Show, the exposition provides manufacturers, retailers, buyers, and designers, a one-stop sourcing venue for new fabrics and products, as well as hosting a variety of seminars.

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo will be held 21-23 July 2015 at the Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, New York, USA.

NEW ISSUE: Ecotextile News Apr/May 2015

Eyeing up future solutions: Phil Patterson on dye colouration advances, Shore thing? New comprehensive UK textile manufacturing research, Ali Enterprise legal wrangle, Two Minutes with... Janne Poranen, CEO, Spinnova, Denim technology round-up, Textile pollutants in Eastern Europe, A new column from Jason Kibbey, CEO, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, gives an update on the organisation's key activities in 2015, Pamela Ravasio discusses the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the growth of sustainability, Kering shares EP&L findings, Nanotechnology update, Rana Paza anniversary - what's changed? Cotton Horizons - a new regular feature on cotton and sustainability, and all the latest news, insight, and analysis.

SUBSCRIBE HERE TODAY.

Texworld USA

Ecotextile News e-bulletin

Wednesday 1 April 2015

Performance Days

Retailers plan closed-loop chemical recycling

Worn Again

H&M, Kering and UK-based Worn Again have teamed up to provide a new chemical-based textile-to-textile recycling system that extracts polyester and cotton from old clothing and blended textiles and uses them to make new fabrics in a closed loop system. The idea is to help bring the global textile industry much closer to a truly circular, closed-loop sourcing model. John Mowbray speaks to Nick Ryan of Worn Again.

China textile industry braced for lawsuits

A Chinese NGO has filed what is believed to be the first 'public interest' litigation for air pollution under China's wide-reaching new environmental law in a move which could have major implications for the country's textile industry.

Aldi commits to Greenpeace Detox

Retail giant Aldi, which has annual textile sales of 2.5 billion euros, has become the latest German business to commit to eliminating all potentially hazardous chemicals from its supply chains by 2020 as part of the Greenpeace Detox campaign.

New project tightens Reach enforcement

The EU has launched a new project aimed at ensuring the proper enforcement of 'authorisation' regulations on chemical substances under Reach legislation.

Myanmar investors urged to grow sustainably

Businesses investing in Myanmar's garment manufacturing industry will be encouraged to set aside a proportion their profits to invest in corporate social responsibility projects – that was one of the messages of a recent seminar on sustainability in Asia's garment and textile industry organised by the European Union and International Labour Organisation.

CAREERS IN TEXTILES

MAHARAM - TEXTILE ENGINEER - NEW YORK, USA

Maharam is seeking a Textile Engineer for its New York City location who will work in the Maharam Design Studio to research and develop new products. Apply here today.

Register as a jobseeker, or get in touch to advertise your vacancy at Careers in Textiles.

Organic cotton market survey

Sustainable textile organisation Textile Exchange (TE) has extended the deadline of its annual Organic Cotton and Preferred Fibres Market Survey, and will offer a free customised industry benchmark summary to all participating brands and retailers.

Home textiles sourcing event

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo is one of the largest sourcing events in North America to solely focus on fabrics and finished soft goods for all home applications.

Held annually in July alongside Texworld USA and the International Apparel Sourcing Show, the exposition provides manufacturers, retailers, buyers, and designers, a one-stop sourcing venue for new fabrics and products, as well as hosting a variety of seminars.

Home Textiles Sourcing Expo will be held 21-23 July 2015 at the Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, New York, USA.

NEW ISSUE: Ecotextile News Apr/May 2015

COMING SOON:
Eyeing up future solutions: Phil Patterson on dye colouration advances, Shore thing? New comprehensive UK textile manufacturing research, Ali Enterprise legal wrangle, Two Minutes with... Janne Poranen, CEO, Spinnova, Denim technology round-up, Textile pollutants in Eastern Europe, A new column from Jason Kibbey, CEO, Sustainable Apparel Coalition, gives an update on the organisation's key activities in 2015, Pamela Ravasio discusses the importance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the growth of sustainability, Kering shares EP&L findings, Nanotechnology update, Rana Paza anniversary - what's changed? Cotton Horizons - a new regular feature on cotton and sustainability, and all the latest news, insight, and analysis.

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Texworld USA

Detox Deconstructed


		New laws give teeth to Chinese legislation Tough new environmental legislation in China promises greater powers for environmental authorities and harsh punishments for polluters and means that clothing retailers need to choose their textile supply chain partners with much greater care and transparency. Read more

		Tear up rule book, Savory tells wool sector Only properly managed livestock will save the planet from the devastating effects of desertification – that was the message of keynote speaker, Allan Savory, on day two of this year’s IWTO wool textile event in South Africa.Brett Mathews reports from South Africa. Read more

		CAREER OPPORTUNITY: Sourcing Manager – United Kingdom A fantastic opportunity for anyone passionate about sourcing trend led fabrics, working for a well-established and highly successful wholesale supplier to the UK High Street for accessories. For more information and the opportunity to apply, click here.

		Wool gets more Royal approval HRH the Prince of Wales sent a message to delegates at the International Wool Textile Organisation (IWTO) Congress in South Africa, pledging his indefinite support for the industry’s hugely successful Campaign For Wool for as long as required. Read more

		Firth grills H&M at fashion summit There were fireworks during the afternoon debate of the Copenhagen Fashion Summit as Livia Firth of Eco Age and Vanessa Friedman of the Financial Times locked horns with Helena Helmersson, of global fashion retailer H&M. Ecotextile News editor, John Mowbray reports from Denmark. Read more

		India to set up organic cotton secretariat Representatives from the Indian organic cotton industry have agreed to set up a new organic and fair cotton secretariat to focus on industry policy, manage and identify resources and provide support services to accelerate the growth of the organic cotton sector. Read more

		New York home textiles fair Upholstery, bath, bedroom and kitchen fabrics and products will be showcased at Home Textiles Sourcing Expo, to be held this July. Home Textiles Sourcing Expo aims to provide manufacturers, retailers and designers with a one-stop venue for sourcing, with fabric and finished products will include wall and window coverings, bed, bath, tabletop and floor coverings, pillows and kitchen and outdoor textiles. Read more

		April/May 2014 magazine issue Ecotextile News asks Ilze Smit, detox campaigner at Greenpeace International, to outline where the Detox campaign is going and what Greenpeace thinks it has achieved so far, CmiA launches new traceability standard, New initiative tackles China’s dyeing sector, What price sustainable wool? Two Minutes with: Timo Perschke, Founder and CEO, PYUA, Italian textile environmental efforts, Criteria revision for GOTS, KEMI proposes toxic textile chemicals tax, Levi launches water-saving standard, New plasma technology from Pepwing, Eco-collections: game-changer or gimmick? 2014: a critical year for Higg Index, Report ranks retailers on Uzbek cotton, The Bigger Picture – The global production of standard-compliant cotton, and all the latest news, insight, analysis. Subscribe here today

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