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28 May 202523 May 2025

Reju announces the site selection of Regeneration Hub One, its first industrial size textile-to-textile recycling center to be located on the Chemelot Industrial Park in Sittard-Geleen, Netherlands

Regeneration Hub One aims at accelerating Reju's path to build a circular infrastructure for textile waste regeneration at scale

5 May 202528 April 2025

Avantium Advances PEF-Based Spacer Fabric For Auping Mattresses With Consortium Of Textile Innovators

The consortium has completed the initial proof of concept study and is now progressing towards prototype development

22 January 202517 January 2025

Spider silk

Spider silk could very much be a solution for the environmental problems of the fashion industry - but nevertheless many companies have either dropped out or completely eliminated spiders from their marketing

7 January 202520 December 2024

Notox’s linen-reinforced boards take on the world’s biggest waves

Basque surfboard manufacturer Notox has designed a line of boards reinforced with flax fibre and recycled carbon for French professional surfer Clément Roseyro

15 October 20249 October 2024

B4Plastics: Quarterly Milestones & Murmur (Q3)

Sustainable solutions take the stage!

27 September 202423 September 2024

After circular fashion hits London Fashion Week, where next for sustainable clothing?

By showcasing how coherent looks can be conjured up from disparate styles and decades, the point of the show was that circular dressing needn’t be drab or utilitarian

5 September 20242 September 2024

INVISTA Kingston site earns ISCC PLUS certification

This achievement marks another major milestone in the company’s global strategy and reinforces a dedication to stewardship via environmental protection, social responsibility, and operational transparency

26 July 202422 July 2024

Avantium partners with leading textile innovators to create PEF fabrics for Auping mattresses

Together with Monosuisse and Antex, this collaboration demonstrates the broad potential of fibers and yarns made from Avantium’s PEF across different application areas

16 July 202411 July 2024

Q-GEO® by FULGAR

A unique yarn that combines its bio-based origin with exceptional comfort and durability

26 April 202424 April 2024

Bcomp Closes CHF 36M (US $40M) Series C Funding

to Foster Mobility Decarbonisation with High-Performance Bio-Based Materials

25 April 202422 April 2024

Fristads launches their first circular product

Fristads’ first circular product is a sweatshirt made from 15 percent closed loop fibres created from collected used Fristads garments

19 February 20249 October 2024

Mixed Fabrics Could Now Be Recycled Thanks to New Research

The fashion industry has an overconsumption problem, producing endless textile waste that can’t always be recycled. Researchers have developed a new method for recycling blended textiles that could increase the amount of clothes that find a second life

16 February 20246 February 2024

Here’s how a lingerie brand designed its new undies to be totally biodegradable

Some 11 million pounds of underwear ends up in landfills every day. Lingerie brand Uwila Warrior designed its product to be totally biodegradable

1 February 20245 February 2024

Toray Launches Co-Creation and Collaboration Initiative with Porter™ Brand that Employs Ecodear™ N510 100% Plant-Based Nylon Fiber

The outer fabric of the bags will incorporate Ecodear 510, which manufactures by polymerizing and spinning sebacic acid from castor oil and pentamethylenediamine from corn

12 December 20235 December 2023

TômTex raises seed round to 4.15 million US dollars for shrimp fabric

The company's biodegradable material has been divided into two series depending on its origin, Series WS made from shell seafood waste and the new Series M made from mushrooms

16 November 202314 May 2024

cycora® Joins GANNI’s ‘Fabrics of The Future’ Initiative

The Danish affordable luxury brand is featuring Ambercycle's regenerated polyester cycora® as part of its GANNI SPORT collection and intends to use the next-gen material in future styles and collections

7 September 202331 August 2023

100 percent recycling: spinning used textiles into high-quality yarns

To find the right processes for each material the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF) and the Saxon Textile Research Institute (STFI) now have developed a new test routine for this purpose

6 September 202330 August 2023

Plant-Based Plastics Gain Favor as Companies Pursue Sustainability Goals

Bioplastics production is now growing 14% a year, putting them on track to reach up to 3% of the plastics market in the next five years

28 March 202328 March 2023

Researchers Separate Cotton From Polyester in Blended Fabric

The North-Carolina-State-University scientists use a “cocktail” of enzymes in a mildly acidic solution to chop up cellulose in cotton so it will “fall out” of the blended woven structure

31 January 202327 January 2023

HeiQ AeoniQ™ turns into a piece of garment for the first time by HUGO BOSS

HUGO BOSS reveals the first Polo Shirt replacing 87% polyester with HeiQ AeoniQ™ fiber

20 January 202316 January 2023

Melbourne 2023: Brand new Adidas women’s tennis collection

Do not forget that this apparel is equipped with AEROREADY technology that absorbs moisture and makes players feel dry

30 November 202228 November 2022

ISPO 2022: Freudenberg presents sustainable product innovations for outdoor clothing, sports and active wear

Wide range of innovative and sustainable interlinings for active sports outfits, stretch interlinings for yoga wear, Pilates & Co, and thermal insulations that combine perfect outdoor wearing comfort with high warmth retention

3 November 202231 October 2022

Creating biomaterials from wool waste

The new 3d-printing project of Petra Garajová, co-founder of the start-up p2lab is investigating the chemical properties of wool fibers through extracting keratin and implementing it in the fabrication of new biomaterials

31 October 202226 October 2022

POLARTEC® POWER SHIELD® Debuts Bio-Based Weather Protection Technology

Offering More Sustainable, Higher Performance, and Versatile All-Weather Solutions

20 April 202213 April 2022

Pure White CELLIANT from Hologenix receives second prestigious recognition

The Company’s Newest Innovation Shortlisted in Drapers Sustainable Fashion 2022 Awards

25 March 202222 March 2022

Reducing the carbon footprint of footwear production

3D HAPTIC® textile printing with partially bio-based INSQIN® system on recycled PET - Successful cooperation with textile and yarn technology companies in China

22 February 202222 February 2022

Fibral Material Alliance brings together plant-based textile industries

Three plant-based textile companies, Ananas Anam, Bananatex and Circular Systems, have come together to form the Fibral Material Alliance

16 February 202210 February 2022

TENCEL™ celebrates 30 years of sustainable fiber innovation

Lenzing’s flagship textile brand is celebrating three decades of sustainable fiber innovation this year and is empowering companies across the textile value chain to adopt more eco-friendly practices

9 February 20223 February 2022

What are the textiles really made of?

Discover the easy way of testing fabrics with mobile textile analysis

12 January 20226 January 2022

TENCEL™ introduces performance fabric with 100% cellulose fibers

The double-layer construction consists of a blend of TENCEL™ branded modal fibers with Eco Color technology and kapok fibers on the inside and 100% TENCEL™ Modal fibers on the outside

30 November 202125 November 2021

Sustainable feedstock for an ethical fashion industry

Despite other issues, manufacturers see a clear route to better environmental performance in cellulose-based textiles

8 November 20213 November 2021

BIOVYN™ expands into the sustainable fashion and utility clothing sector

Swedish clothing brand Farmerrain is the latest manufacturer to use BIOVYN™ PVC as part of its sustainability strategy

28 September 202123 September 2021

Dassiet revolutionises fracture treatment with new product line UCAST

The new cast, consisting of biodegradable Woodcast material and self-adhesive Unitex fabric, makes casting significantly faster and safer

16 September 202113 September 2021

Sustainable technologies with cellulose-based materials

Isko, a brand of Sanko Tekstil in Turkey, wants with help of MoRe Research’s expertise to find ways of repurposing the toxic-free cellulosic powders from decomposed cotton or recycled polyester, and reintegrate this back into fabric production

19 July 202114 July 2021

Pangaia’s First Activewear Collection is Made From Plants, Not Plastic

Gym’s leggings, cycling shorts, T-shirts, unitards, and sports bras are 90% bio-based

16 July 202113 July 2021

Scientists produce continuous sheets of sustainable mushroom leather

VTT researchers-team has refined the processes of making textile-structures from mycelium to produce a skin-like material with similar feel and strength to real leather

7 July 20219 September 2021

VAUDE bringt erste Radtaschenserie aus vollständig recycelten Hauptmaterialien auf den Markt

Kunststoffverpackungen werden für Radtaschen-Rückensystem recycelt

VAUDE launches first ever pannier made from recycled material

Plastic packaging is recycled for pannier support system

30 June 20219 September 2021

Ground Breaking Trial Returning Cotton Textile Waste to Cotton Fields Launched in Goondiwindi, Queensland

Trial of diverting textiles from landfill to farm has potential to recycle ‘huge amount’ of material

11 June 202116 June 2021

Heimtextil launches digital materials library

Visitors can now discover the potential of previously unknown textiles at any time, to open their minds to experimental approaches and revolutionary ideas

30 April 202118 June 2021

This biodegradable faux fur is made from cannabis plants

The new fabric is woven using hemp fibres and viscose with a cotton base making it both animal and plastic-free

23 March 20219 September 2021

Could we recycle plastic bags into fabrics of the future?

Engineers have developed self-cooling fabrics from polyethylene, a material commonly used in plastic bags

22 March 202117 March 2021

Sateri to Expand Lyocell Production in China

The Changzhou Lyocell facility is expected to commence production in the third quarter of 2022 and will create more than 800 jobs

16 March 202111 March 2021

BBI JU-funded Ssuchy project yields results

Manufacturers have invariably turned to natural and wood fibres and bio-based polymers

24 February 202119 February 2021

Ralph Lauren-Backed Materials Company Develops Plant-Based, Plastic-Free Leather

New U.S.-facility will span over 10,000-square-feet and will be utilized to manufacture its plant-based leather product, called Mirum

15 February 202110 February 2021

Regeneration: The Next Step for Outdoor Fashion

The slowdown caused by the pandemic has found the fashion industry engaged in early reflections on ways to contribute to the improvement of environmental conditions

15 December 20209 September 2021

Consumer Trend: Food Waste Among Materials Harvested in H&M’s Latest Collection

New level of waste-upcycling with a line of clothing and accessories created from materials, including food waste, that had been destined for the trash bin

5 October 202030 September 2020

FINEX™ Reaches New Milestones; Launches Officially at Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics

As part of its efforts to promote textile fibre recycling in China, Sateri is in dialogue with the China Association of Circular Economy (CACE)

24 September 202021 September 2020

Collaboration Between DuPont™ Sorona® and Sateri’s EcoCosy® Results in Innovative Fabrics for Fashion and Athleisure

StretchCosy^TM uses a blend of Sorona^®, a partially plant-based fibre, and Sateri’s ultra-comfortable and near weightless EcoCosy^® fibres

23 September 202018 September 2020

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