The downgrade reflects a wider sector problem: even where demand is still growing, margins are under pressure from tariffs, promotions and a tougher competitive landscape.
Nike is facing a more...
In a weak consumer market, both retailers are showing that a clear value proposition, disciplined product strategy and ambitious physical expansion can still produce...
Europe’s spinning sector is under cost pressure, but regulation and sourcing shifts are opening space for higher-value cotton yarns.
Europe’s cotton yarn market is becoming...
The Japanese materials maker is betting that mills and brands want stretch, moisture management and easier recyclability without relying on polyurethane blends.
Teijin Frontier has...
The deal gives Lycra a focused industrial route into China’s core-spun yarn segment while giving Texhong early access to a lower-impact elastane option for...
Brussels, Belgium, 7 April 2026 – EDANA, the international association serving the nonwovens and related industries, released today the European annual statistics for 2025,...
The machinery maker’s pitch in Paris was clear: when customers hesitate on capital spending, new composite applications become the real route to growth.
KARL MAYER...
The company is targeting a market that wants more capacity and flexibility, but without the capital intensity of fully bespoke line investments.
At Techtextil 2026,...
IIT Delhi researchers have shown that flexible textile electrodes made from recycled PET, carbon nanotubes and polyaniline can remove dyes from real textile effluent...
Fastsort-Textile does not solve textile waste on its own, but it tackles one of the industry’s hardest operational problems: separating mixed post-consumer waste fast...
The new platform targets one of textile recycling’s hardest problems: identifying blends, elastane and impurities accurately enough for automated separation.
Specim, part of Konica Minolta,...
Organic cotton, recycled polyester and cellulose-based fibers may lower impact at production, but once garments are discarded, most still enter a waste system built...
The new open-access toolkit aims to turn broad sustainability ambition into coordinated system-level action across fashion’s fragmented value chain.
The textile industry’s climate problem is...