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3 February 202331 January 2023

Hemp makes a comeback in the construction industry

According to a European Commission report, the carbon sequestering properties of hemp are remarkable and hemp blocks are better at insulating from heat and sound than brick and concrete

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2 February 20237 February 2023

From Fibre Production to Recycling and Policy – The Final Program of the Cellulose Fibres Conference 2023

International experts will discuss hot topics along the entire cellulose fibre value chain at the upcoming Cellulose Fibres Conference, 8–9 March 2023 in Cologne and online

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27 January 202324 January 2023

Kelheim Fibres welcomes EU agreement on deforestation-free supply chains

As one of the largest economies worldwide, the EU is a major consumer of wood-based raw materials. Therefore, the new law can significantly contribute to reducing global deforestation and forest degradation as well as protecting threatened forest areas

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24 January 202319 January 2023

DNFI World Natural Fibre Update January 2023

Less global natural fiber production

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23 January 202320 January 2023

Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2023 – From Hygiene Products, Sustainability Improved Technologies to Cellulose from Textile Waste and Banana Production Waste

Six award nominees will present promising sustainable solutions for the industry in the field of cellulose fibres value chains. The full innovation potential of the cellulose fibre industry will be displayed to a wide audience in Cologne (Germany), and online

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2 December 202230 November 2022

Hemp – an undemanding alternative to cotton?

In the past, hemp was a globally widespread plant for fiber production and was almost completely displaced by cotton and later by synthetic fibers in the last century

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25 November 202222 November 2022

Kelheim Fibres once again awarded with dark green/green shirt in Canopy’s Hot Button Report

Kelheim Fibres is the only EMAS-validated viscose fibre manufacturer worldwide to regularly publish all relevant environmental data

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16 November 202214 November 2022

Grand largue composites and Sicomin enable first flax-fibre-built Class40

Company has supplied a range of composite materials to build a racing yacht that incorporates flax rather than carbon fibers

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14 November 20229 November 2022

New research project aims to bring residual materials from hemp processing into the cycle

Usable end products in the new project "HanfNRG", coordinated by the DBFZ, would be biogas/biomethane, thermal energy, process heat, synthesis gas or digestate products

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8 November 20222 November 2022

Möbel, Dielen, Verpackungen – wie Pappel-Produkte den Einsatz fossiler Rohstoffe reduzieren

Forscher der TU Dresden haben Möglichkeiten erarbeitet, wie der Einsatz fossiler Rohstoffe durch die Nutzung umweltfreundlicherer, bio-basierter Materialen aus Pappeln reduziert werden kann

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4 November 202231 October 2022

The future of TENCEL™: from linear to circular

The TENCEL™ brand collaborates with partners who value waste management as the heart of an effective circular economy and embeds the circular economy in its business model, practices, and innovation

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25 October 202220 October 2022

Kelheim Fibres partners with TextileGenesis for more transparency in the textile chain

TextileGenesisTM uses blockchain technology to track and verify the use of sustainable fibres all the way from fibre to garment

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21 October 202218 October 2022

Sustainable concrete cuts emissions and waste

The latest Flinders University-led study, with experts from the US and Turkey, demonstrates how geopolymers reinforced with renewable natural fibres and made with industrial by-products and waste-based sands can match the strength, durability and drying shrinkage qualities of those containing natural sands

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20 October 202220 October 2022

Bast Fibre Technologies Inc. secures strategic investment from Ahlström Capital

Investment will create the world’s largest specialty hemp fibre processing and purification company

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18 October 202212 October 2022

DITF are winners of the DNFI Innovation in Natural Fibres Award

The prize was awarded to Dr. Frank Hermanutz and Dr. Tanja Schneck, whose work 'PureCell - Natural fiber-reinforced composites based on pure cellulose' presents a single-variety composite material made of cellulose

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13 October 202210 October 2022

World Natural Fibre Update October 2022

The Discover Natural Fibres Initiative facilitates the exchange of information and works to advance the common interests of all natural fibres in the face of competition with oil- based and wood-based manmade fibres

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11 October 20227 October 2022

CocoPallet: smart concept, bright future

The development of creating value from the byproduct of the coconut industry has been much slower than desired and expected - but the company still exists and has the same goal

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19 September 202214 September 2022

Textiles Matter: Heimtextil Trends 23/24 define the future of home and contract textiles

The Heimtextil Trend Council offers insights into the future of the national and international market

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7 September 20221 September 2022

Natural fiber – the bio-option to single use plastics

Recycling is the standard approach for plastics, however not as readily developed or utilized as that of natural fibers in papers and cardboard/packaging, which have a widespread global infrastructure

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6 September 202231 August 2022

Pink hempcrete brightens demountable Floriade pavilion by Overtreders W

The Voice of Urban Nature's structure is built from a mix of pink-hued hempcrete and contrasting wood that is finished with a black coating of linseed oil and carbon

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8 August 20223 August 2022

Recycled synthetics vs renewable fibres: Balancing sustainability

Compared to conventional production, so-called ‘preferred fibres’ – says global non-profit organisation Textile Exchange – improve environmental and/or social sustainability outcomes and impacts

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29 July 202225 July 2022

What role does Hemp play in the Automotive Industry?

Ford's approach to developing sustainable solutions with cars made from bioplastics did not bear fruit. But almost a century later, companies are again looking at the value of industrial hemp to the automotive industry

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28 July 202223 July 2022

Bangladeshi scientist invents biodegradable carry bag to replace plastic

The bag is made from jute cellulose and polymer and can be used in garment packaging or food packaging and several applications

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26 July 202223 July 2022

Nature as inspiration: Bio-based materials for sustainable construction

In its shift toward a circular economy, the construction industry will increasingly rely on the many sustainable qualities of bio-based materials

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19 July 202214 July 2022

H&M Group joins funding for seaweed yarn maker Algiknit

Algiknit, which makes yarn from kelp seaweed, closes its US$13m Series A funding with help from H&M CO:Lab, the investment arm of H&M Group and announces a new US-based manufacturing facility

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Scientists develop new material inspired by limpets with super strength

An interdisciplinary team of biologists, chemists, and engineers from the University of Portsmouth have become the first to successfully grow a limpet inspired biomaterial with extreme strength

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14 July 202213 July 2022

Native bast fibres for buses, boards and automotive equipment

Development of novel moisture-resistant natural fibre-reinforced composite for structural components in the DuroBast project

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13 July 20229 July 2022

Nets from ecological fibres

Lincredibile is a revolutionary line of products with a flax fibre core for highly sustainable food packaging. Recently launched on the market, it is already used by supermarkets in France and Germany

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12 July 202211 July 2022

TechVision Fonds I and High-Tech Gründerfonds invest in textile recycling startup EEDEN

Textile recycling rethought: Innovative process enables upcycling of old clothing

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4 July 202229 June 2022

Merino wool bandages deliver breathable, biodegradable healing

New Zealand's WoolAid says that its natural bandages are better for healing and better for the environment

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FRIMO at JEC World 2022

The Group will present itself again this year as a tool and equipment supplier for complete solutions in the field of composite applications

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1 July 202224 June 2022

Opening the door to Bio-based Nonwovens in Reusable Textiles – Kelheim Fibres wins Techtextil Innovation Award

In close cooperation with the STFI, the company developed nonwovens which can be used as a stand-alone solution or integrated into a textile structure

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13 June 20228 June 2022

BIOPOLYMER-Award: Winners come from Belgium, Brazil and Germany

The abundance of international high-quality applications was an exciting and demanding task for the jury of the BIOPOLYMER Innovation Awards this year again

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Textile Filter Testing Shows Promise for Carbon Capture

North Carolina State University scientists developed a possible new carbon capture technology

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3 June 202230 July 2022

Tetra Pak tests an industry-first: a fibre-based barrier to replace the aluminium layer

Breakthrough towards a fully renewable aseptic package, this innovative fibre-based material is reducing the carbon footprint and is making the packaging more recyclable

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31 May 202224 May 2022

Opening of Biocomposite Bridge in Almere, NL

SCB Smart Circular Bridge, EU project INTERREG

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25 May 202223 May 2022

High-tech bridge built with flax

The University of Stuttgart is contributing to innovations for climate protection as part of the EU project "Smart Circular Bridge"

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3 May 202227 April 2022

Infinna™ achieves 99% Recycled Content Certification from SCS Global Services

Infinited Fiber Company has received this recognition as it is using cotton-rich post-consumer textile waste as the sole raw material in the production

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27 April 202221 April 2022

Creating a sustainable Finnish textile industry with bio-based and recycled fibres

The Telavalue project continues the line of previous projects of the Telaketju network and have promoted the creation of a Finnish circular economy of textiles

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21 April 202214 April 2022

World’s first ‘Smart Circular Bridge’ in a city

The Eindhoven University of Technology-led EU project ‘Smart Circular Bridge’ recognizes the potentials of flax by building three city bridges made from a biocomposite material consisting of flax and a special bio-resin

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Marcus Wallenberg Prize to Professor Herbert Sixta for the development of Sustainable wood-based textile fibres

The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Herbert Sixta and Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen for the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres

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19 April 202212 April 2022

Sustainable lightweight thermoplastic honeycomb panel with flax fibre composites to replace glass and carbon fibre materials

Innovation by EconCore & Flaxco (Division of Flipts & Dobbels NV) partnership

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14 April 202211 April 2022

Bcomp closes CHF 32m Series B with mobility- and impact venture capital

The combination of investors is unique and confirms the strong interest from the market in Bcomp’s technologies, ranging from the automotive and aerospace industry to wider mobility and sustainability sectors

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31 March 202225 March 2022

UBCO researchers use unique ingredient to strengthen bamboo

Once used to preserve bodies, plastination now strengthens biocomposites

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23 March 202218 March 2022

Novel 3D wood fibre products tackle climate change and plastic challenges

Success story: 3D wood fibre production line for Valmet

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21 March 202215 March 2022

Birla Cellulose completes first pilot spin of lyocell fibres containing Nanollose’s microbial cellulose

This forest-friendly lyocell fibre marks a significant milestone in Birla Cellulose’s strategy for commercialization of this technology that uses a sustainable biomass

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16 March 202210 March 2022

Drugstore chain dm uses clothes hangers made from grass

ALANA and PUSBLU children's textiles have been made of the grass fibre-based bioplastic AgriPlast from the company Biowert Industrie GmbH in Odenwald, Germany

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15 March 20229 March 2022

Lenzing successfully opens world’s largest lyocell plant in Thailand

New production unit will help to even better meet the increasing customer demand for TENCEL™ branded lyocell fibers

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9 March 20224 March 2022

Fashion for Good’s latest project transforms agricultural waste into fibres

The new consortium project will assess the technical feasibility of natural fibres created by selected innovators using agricultural waste such as rice husks, hemp, wheat straw, banana and pineapple

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1 March 202223 February 2022

Sustainable reinforcement of e-bike battery cases

Ansmann AG and Fraunhofer LBF to develop a natural fibre reinforced plastic composite for use in e-bike battery cases