In recent years, against the backdrop of consumers’ growing demands for apparel quality, personalization and environmental sustainability, the sewing and embroidery market has embraced unprecedented development opportunities. According to...
Smart textiles are proliferating faster than their end-of-life systems. A new German project aims to make “wearable electronics” recyclable by design—and sortable by machine.
Germany’s...
Producing consistent yarn quality is an everyday challenge – and a very difficult one. Detailed knowledge and understanding of the fiber raw material is...
As apparel brands juggle cost, compliance and speed, the fair’s pavilions reveal where power is shifting: toward fibre platforms, certification gatekeepers and design IP.
Intertextile...
Techtextil 2026 continues to grow: more than 1,500 exhibitors from 49 countries present their products and innovations in Frankfurt am Main from 21 to...
By adding PP to its Chemical Watchlist, ZDHC is turning a long-running safety problem into a commercial risk—pushing brands and laundries to replace spray...
By aligning metal-fibre crossings so forces add up—rather than cancel out—researchers push wearable robotics closer to clothing than machinery.
Wearable exosuits tend to look like...
Order intake of CHF 703.4 million
Sales of CHF 685.1 million
Positive operating EBIT of CHF 2.5 million
New medium-term targets
Rieter successfully completed the acquisition of Barmag on...
Behind the talk of “automation” lies a simple logic: better winding reduces defects, labour and downstream stoppages—so mills keep investing even when demand is...
Over the past few years Monforts has significantly advanced its technologies for coating, with the successive introductions of the MontexCoat, coaTTex and VertiDry systems...
Electrospun nanofibres are moving from lab promise to industrial platform—helped by big-chemistry scale and polymer know-how.
A young materials firm and a chemical giant are...
An EU-backed consortium is trying to solve the hard part of leather alternatives: scaling a bio-based material that is both durable and genuinely recyclable.
A...
Recycled yarn is becoming a core business, not a “green” sideline. Unifi’s new targets show confidence—but also invite tougher questions about scale, traceability and...