Demand is still being driven by apparel growth, but the next competitive edge will come from cleaner dyes, low-water processes, digital colour control and compliance-ready supply chains.
The global textile...
The breakthrough is not recycling itself, but better identification of fabric structure and fiber quality before garments are mechanically opened.
Researchers at SINTEF and Norsk...
If commercialized, cotton with built-in color could shift part of textile sustainability from dyehouses back to the crop itself.
Researchers at the University of Georgia...
New developments in filament winding, 3D printing, pultrusion and automated fibre placement show natural fibres entering higher-value industrial applications.
The Alliance for European Flax-Linen &...
The move shifts a historic Swiss weaving technology into Itema’s Italian manufacturing base while preserving spare-parts continuity for existing customers.
Itema has produced its first...
The company’s work underlines how narrow woven fabrics are becoming higher-engineered components in parachute, recovery and aerospace systems.
Bally Ribbon Mills is highlighting advanced parachute...
New model from KARL MAYER impresses with higher output, expanded pattern options, and optimal alignment with the apparel market
KARL MAYER is expanding its successful...
The investment strengthens Uzbekistan’s role in regional hygiene manufacturing as demand for premium baby-care products continues to rise.
ATCO Hygienics has ordered a new baby...
The next machinery cycle will be shaped less by capacity alone and more by automation, energy savings, technical textiles and flexible production.
The global textile...
More than half of Swiss Textile Machinery’s 42 member companies will exhibit in Istanbul, highlighting how premium machinery suppliers are repositioning around measurable productivity...
The first U.S. textile EPR law is moving from policy signal to compliance obligation, with apparel and home-textile producers now facing a formal registration...
With 220,000 tonnes of textile waste generated annually, the UAE is moving from voluntary recycling efforts toward a coordinated national textile-circularity system.
The UAE has...