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14 February 20244 February 2024

Transforming textile waste

Berlin-based start-up Re-Fresh Global today launches the EPR-Promise campaign in preparation for the EU EPR 2025 regulation on sustainable circular economy in the textile industry

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2 February 202429 January 2024

Roquette Isosorbide Achieves ISCC PLUS Certification

International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS for POLYSORB® isosorbide and the following product grades: POLYSORB® PSA, POLYSORB® LP, POLYSORB® PA

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31 January 202423 January 2024

Precision Textiles Teams with REPREVE® for Industry First Collaboration to Satisfy Consumer Demand for Eco-Friendly Mattresses

First-of-its-kind collaboration within the industry will make Precision Textiles the only bedding component manufacturer to use REPREVE® recycled performance fiber in its nonwoven products

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How can bananas build a more equitable bioeconomy?

As the search for circular textiles at scale intensifies, banana waste could be one of the raw materials ideally placed to supply the demand

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25 January 202422 January 2024

Textile Recycling 4.0

A second life for clothes: Researchers are developing new processes to enable automated sorting of used garments and textile waste

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17 January 202418 January 2024

Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2024: Nominated Innovations Range from Resource-efficient and Recycled Fibres for Textiles and Building Panels to Geotextiles for Glacier Protection

Six award nominees present innovative and sustainable solutions for various industries in the cellulose fibre value chain. The full economic potential of the cellulose fibre industry will be introduced to a wide audience that will vote for the winners in Cologne (Germany), and online

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15 January 202416 January 2024

Print­ing inks made from plants

On the path to a circular economy, Judith Deriu is developing natural color pigments from plants and uses them to make sustainable printing inks for industry in the laboratory at the Research Institute of Textile Chemistry and Textile Physics in Dornbirn

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12 January 202411 January 2024

Free PEFerence webinars in February: PEF in bottle applications and for textiles

PEF is an aspiring new bio-based material aiming at replacing fossil PET in a variety of applications such as PEF bottles and as a new and sustainable material in the textile industry

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11 January 20244 January 2024

The German Ecodesign Award 2023 goes to twelve pioneering projects 

Federal Minister for the Environment Lemke and UBA Vice President Busse honour the award winners

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5 January 202421 December 2023

Surge in bioplastic textile market expected

Bioplastic textiles, which are derived from eco-friendly materials like maize, algae, or soy, offer a viable alternative towards reducing fashion industry's carbon emissions and waste production

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4 January 202420 December 2023

Avantium focuses on maximising the potential of its FDCA and PEF technology

In order to cover its share in the financing package and to remain properly capitalised until the FDCA Flagship Plant is fully operational, the company intends to raise €50 million in equity capital

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PUMA scale-up their textile-to-textile recycling technology, creating all future replica football kit using RE:FIBRE Technology

Global sports company PUMA has today announced that it has scaled up its textile recycling innovation, RE:FIBRE, replacing recycled polyester with RE:FIBRE technology in all PUMA football Club and Federation replica jerseys from 2024 onwards

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14 December 20237 December 2023

Metsä Group’s Kuura textile fibre gained important recognition in sustainability matters

The large-scale production of Kuura would emit clearly lower greenhouse gas levels compared to currently commercially available bio-based textile fibres and polyester fibres

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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

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7 December 20234 December 2023

PANGAIA and Avantium partner to bring sustainable apparel collection based on Avantium’s 100% plant-based PEF to the market

PEF fits current polyester infrastructure for both production and recycling; presenting a scaleable future for renewable alternatives to fossil-fuel derived PET

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Innovation for more sustainable textile coatings

Market launch of Impranil® CQ DLU - New PU dispersion is one-third bio-based

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6 December 20231 December 2023

Swiss Sportswear Brand On presents its first apparel collection made with CleanCloud® technology

After reshaping carbon emissions into running shoes, On launches the “Pace Collection” - eight apparel items made with CleanCloud® polyester

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1 December 202330 November 2023

UPM and VAUDE showcase the future of fabrics at ISPO Munich 2023 with first ever fleece jacket made from wood-based polyester

In a close collaboration the partners produced outerwear made with bio-based chemicals to prove that the shift towards renewable materials in textiles is possible already today

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The LYCRA Company launches new LYCRA® FiT400™ fiber

LYCRA® FiT400™ fiber is made from 60% recycled PET and 14.4% from bio-derived resources and is GRS certified

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29 November 202329 November 2023

Program for the Cellulose Fibres Conference 2024 Now Available: Cellulose Fibre Production – From Recycling Agricultural Waste, Banknotes and Textiles to Replacing Plastics in Hygiene, Packaging and Textiles

The Conference will Showcase the Most Successful Solutions Based on Cellulose Fibres That are Currently Available on the Market

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Landmark investment positions GOZEN to amplify its influence in next-gen materials

This investment will enable the startup to accelerate research, development, and scaling efforts for its breakthrough biomaterial, LUNAFORM™

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28 November 202316 October 2024

For a Life on the Go: Clothing With Plant-Based Insect Repellent

Craghoppers has developed a collection that reliably repels insect bites with the purely plant-based, insect-repellent NosiLife technology

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24 November 202320 November 2023

Recover™ and Valdese Weavers partner for circularity in the home textiles industry

The integration of Recover™ fiber into Valdese Weaver’s product lines, enables the textile mill to remain frontrunners in delivering sustainable and innovative fabrics

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17 November 202316 November 2023

Lignin coating makes geotextiles made from environmentally friendly natural fibers durable

The German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF) are developing a bio-based protective coating that extends their service life

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Emerging Molecules Produced Through Industrial Biomanufacturing

White biotechnology not only reduces society's dependence on fossil fuels, but also consumes less energy, generates minimal waste, and produces more environmentally friendly products

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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

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14 November 20238 November 2023

Checking items of clothing using a smartphone, AI and infrared spectroscopy

The technology could be used to optimize the recycling of old clothing, waste apparel could be sorted according to type

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7 November 20237 November 2023

Naia™ Renew Fibers And The Game-Changing Potential Of Molecular Recycling Take Center At The 2023 Textile Exchange Conference, London

Eastman is pleased to be among the sponsors of the 2023 Textile Exchange Conference and present their molecular recycling technology

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31 October 20237 November 2023

First peeks into the program of the upcoming Cellulose Fibres Conference 2024 available

Cellulose Fibres Response to the Growing Demand for Eco-fibres as a substitute for plastics in various applications; 13-14 March, 2024 in Cologne, Germany and online

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23 October 202316 October 2023

BASF supplies Asahi Kasei’s ROICA with biomass balanced tetrahydrofuran 

This collaboration aims to support the launch of a new sustainable sportswear and apparel collection by Asahi Kasei’s customers

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17 October 202311 October 2023

New tech makes bio-based leather from leather waste

The research project reProLeather has resulted in a new technology to separate the chromium VI from the shredded leather fibres and create a bio-based alternative to PU and PVC binders

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12 October 20236 October 2023

LUNAFORM™, a new kind of biomaterial, unveiled by Balenciaga at Paris Fashion Week

Gozen introduces an otherworldly vision for sustainable fashion

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11 October 20237 October 2023

The State of Fashion & Textile Circularity in WA (Western Australia)

New report has been prepared by WA Circular Fashion Consortium (WACFC) at Curtin University and advances the Circular Economy based action within the local clothing industry

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Natural Kimberley fibre could be the answer to improving WA’s fashion sustainability

The Curtin University-led State of Fashion and Textile Circularity in WA 2023 report highlighted how the state's charitable sector has been burdened by masses of low-quality textile waste

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10 October 202310 October 2023

Spinning a sustainable fashion revolution: meet the physicists turning wood into clothes

How Spinnova today transforms cellulose from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified wood into textile fibre without using any chemicals

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6 October 20232 October 2023

Fashioning a Greener Future

In this article, we explore the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, as well as topics within the fashion industry that need addressing, such as the urgent necessity for textile-to-textile recycling and the illegal export of waste

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21 September 202321 September 2023

A Broad Range of Advanced Recycling Technologies Keeps Carbon in the Loop 

Register now: The Advanced Recycling Conference 2023, November 28-29, 2023 in Cologne, Germany and online

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12 September 20237 September 2023

The upcyclers from Münster – a visit

By putting the ideas of the circular economy into practice, the start-up eeden is showing that sustainability and innovation can go hand in hand

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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

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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

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30 August 202325 August 2023

Hartshorn salt and “baking” solves a serious environmental problem

A group of young chemists from the University of Copenhagen has invented a green and surprisingly simple solution to separate and recycle polyester fabric blends

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29 August 202324 August 2023

Recover™ and Lands’ End Collaborate to Transform Textile Waste Into Sustainble Denim

This collaboration shows how textile waste can be integrated back into the system to create a more sustainable production model

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16 August 202311 August 2023

MycoWorks to Open World’s First Commercial-Scale Fine Mycelium™ Plant In September

136,000 Square Foot Facility to Scale Production of Luxury Leather Alternative Reishi™

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10 August 20234 August 2023

Glaukos develops biobased textile fibres to tackle plastic pollution

The EU-funded project is developing eco-designed fishing gear and clothing, and will scale up its production process

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8 August 202315 November 2023

Stockholm University leads Bio-LUSH for development of new sustainable bio-based fibers for a circular bioeconomy

The four-year Bio-LUSH project, launched in May 2023, supports the establishment of a sustainable bio-fibrous economy and manufacturing sector in Europe

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21 July 202319 July 2023

Regenerative Agriculture Outcome Framework

Textile Exchange’s Regenerative Agriculture Outcome Framework lays out the key indicators that make for a regenerative system – encouraging collaboration by including expectations for both brands and growers

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19 July 202313 July 2023

Can Cellulose Fibers Fill the Cotton Gap?

Cellulose as a Raw Material Could Be the Answer to Future Textile Demand

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11 July 20236 July 2023

Field to fiber hemp technology

An advanced industrial hemp processing line has been delivered to a major customer in Turkey by Tatham, who had many discussions about its machinery for the processing of natural staple fibers at the recent ITMA 2023 in Milan/Italy

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28 June 202322 June 2023

A global first for circularity: Södra and Lenzing receive largest EU LIFE subsidy for recycling project

EU funding for textile recycling project on an industrial scale. Huge boost to circularity. Lenzing and Södra – a long-standing partnership for systemic change

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27 June 202321 June 2023

The future of fabrics – UPM and VAUDE think beyond recycling

UPM Biochemicals and VAUDE, a sustainable and innovative supplier of outdoor apparel, will produce outerwear made with bio-based chemicals and demonstrate that the textile industry can start the shift towards renewable materials today