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Digital product passports move from concept to compliance infrastructure

Sustainability
Forecasts point to explosive growth, but the real commercial story is that digital product passports are becoming a practical...

Saif Textile commissions 10MW solar plant to cut power costs and support margins

Sustainability
The move highlights how Pakistan’s spinning sector is increasingly turning to captive solar as a cost-control tool in a...

Fashion for Good targets Europe’s textile recycling bottleneck with new feedstock project

Sustainability
The initiative shifts the circularity debate away from recycling chemistry alone and toward the harder industrial challenge of delivering...

AAFA challenges California’s textile EPR rollout over Landbell PRO selection

Recycling
The dispute goes to the heart of how the first US textile EPR system will be governed: by a...

JEPLAN and Syre team up to speed polyester textile-to-textile recycling

Environment
The partnership is aimed at moving circular polyester from pilot-stage promise toward commercial reality, with multi-ton output targeted for...

Uniqlo and Aritzia are winning in apparel by making value feel premium

Apparel
In a weak consumer market, both retailers are showing that a clear value proposition, disciplined product strategy and ambitious...

Textile circularity still breaks down at the end of life, even for ‘sustainable’ clothes

Sustainability
Organic cotton, recycled polyester and cellulose-based fibers may lower impact at production, but once garments are discarded, most still...

Archroma makes SaigonTex debut to deepen its bet on Vietnam’s textile industry

Chemicals
The specialty chemicals group is using SaigonTex 2026 to position itself at the centre of Vietnam’s push for higher-performance,...

H&M foundation turns textile decarbonisation map into an industry action tool

Sustainability
The new open-access toolkit aims to turn broad sustainability ambition into coordinated system-level action across fashion’s fragmented value chain. The...

Mushroom waste coating points to a cleaner future for textile printing

Sustainability
The project shows how overlooked bio-waste can become a functional textile input, though commercial success will depend on matching...

Renasens raises €10m to test whether textile recycling can finally handle blended waste

Recycling
The Swedish startup’s significance lies less in the fundraise itself than in its attempt to solve the hardest commercial...

Textilfabrik 7.0 turns Mönchengladbach into a test bed for circular, low-carbon textile manufacturing

Environment
The project matters because it treats sustainable textile production not as a lab exercise, but as an industrial system...

Bangladesh’s circularity pilot shows sorting, not technology, is the real bottleneck

Recycling
The pilot’s clearest lesson is that textile recycling in Bangladesh will not scale until waste is segregated, traced and...

Europe’s textile recycling will not scale without a market intervention

Recycling
Europe can build a textile-to-textile recycling industry, but only if policymakers and brands help create the economic conditions for...

Engineered enzyme breakthrough targets polyester recycling bottleneck

Recycling
A new “plastic-eating” enzyme could accelerate textile-to-textile recycling, but scaling it remains the real challenge. Researchers have developed an advanced...

organIQ seek: Smart alternative to potassium permanganate

Chemicals
LAB 102 – the blue veins of CHT – brings the Denim Industry closer to permanganate-free bleaching through new...

CHT Group’s intelligent specialty chemical solutions for technical textiles at Techtextil 2026

Chemicals
At this year's Techtextil in Frankfurt on the Main, the CHT Group will be presenting its comprehensive portfolio of...

Södra’s OnceMore uses TextileGenesis to turn circular MMCF traceability into infrastructure

Sustainability
As regulation tightens and recycled-content claims face greater scrutiny, traceability is becoming a commercial necessity, not a branding extra. OnceMore®,...

CiCLO gains traction as brands tackle microplastic pollution in synthetics

Fibres
Intrinsic Advanced Materials (IAM) says adoption of its CiCLO® technology is expanding across performance apparel, workwear and mass-market clothing,...

DIENES targets bio-based fibre scale-up with flexible pilot lines at Techtextil 2026

Fibres
As bio-based fibres move from lab curiosity to industrial priority, DIENES is pitching modular pilot lines as the bridge...
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