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Bangladesh’s cotton demand slips as garment slowdown reaches the mills

Fibres
USDA’s lower import forecast suggests weaker apparel orders are now feeding back into Bangladesh’s spinning sector through lower yarn...

Circ’s China deal turns textile recycling into a scale test

Sustainability
By partnering with Xinxiang Bailu, Circ is shifting from proving its chemistry to proving that recycled pulp can run...

Karl Mayer builds a textile prototyping hub to turn ideas into machines and fabrics

Machinery
The new Textile Innovation Center in Obertshausen is a bet that warp-knit innovation now needs faster collaboration between machinery,...

RWTH Aachen brings hydrogen tanks to JEC with a cheaper carbon-fibre equation

Sustainability
ITA’s new winding approach matters because hydrogen storage will scale only if pressure vessels use less carbon fibre, generate...

Uniqlo bets on comfort-led denim for Spring/Summer 2026

Denim
The retailer is treating jeans less as rigid fashion staples and more as everyday uniform: softer fabrics, easier silhouettes...

Bangladesh’s new government faces a simple test: can it keep garments competitive?

Apparel
The BNP’s election win has raised business hopes, but the apparel sector needs policy stability, cheaper energy and faster...

Hong Kong textile leaders explore Egypt as the next manufacturing hub

Business
A delegation of 14 garment and textile industry leaders from Hong Kong has completed a business mission to Egypt,...

King’s College builds a shared fibre “library” for the recycling age

Recycling
By making textile-fibre identification faster, open and machine-readable, the FasTEX project attacks a quiet bottleneck in recycling, pollution tracking...

Sewing & Embroidery Industry leaders gather at 2026 ITCPE Guangzhou to co-draw a New Blueprint for the Industry

Business
In recent years, against the backdrop of consumers’ growing demands for apparel quality, personalization and environmental sustainability, the sewing...

Milliken tries to de-risk “PFAS-free” turnout gear with third-party proof

Technical Textiles
Fire departments no longer treat PFAS as a technicality: procurement now demands independent chemistry, not just NFPA boxes ticked. “PFAS-free”...

Bangladesh’s cotton-for-tariff bargain runs into the real world

Fibres
BTMA likes the headline—zero duty for garments—yet worries the fine print could choke blends, recycled denim and allocation rules. Bangladesh’s...

Niber and BASF bet on electrospinning to commercialise PFAS-free breathable membranes

Innovation
Electrospun nanofibres are moving from lab promise to industrial platform—helped by big-chemistry scale and polymer know-how. A young materials firm...

Artists’ “temporary” materials are becoming knitwear’s next permanent advantage

Knitting
Ephemeral art is nudging knitwear toward a new aesthetic: irregular, process-led surfaces designed for durability, circularity and lower waste. Waste,...

Bangladesh’s US “cotton clause” risks turning tariff relief into a purchase order for America

Cotton
The agreement trims one tariff only by forcing a new kind of dependence: raw materials as the price of...

Circ expands Fiber Club to make recycled polycotton pulp a “buyable” input

Innovation
Circ, a textile-to-textile recycler, is scaling its Fiber Club—a demand-aggregation scheme designed to overcome minimum order quantities (MOQs) and...

Circulose restarts Ortviken—chemical textile recycling gets a second life in Sweden

Fibres
After Renewcell’s collapse, “next-gen” textile-to-textile is returning—this time tied to demand and offtake commitments, not hype. Circulose says it will...

Textile recycling’s growth is real—but the hard part is scaling “feedstock truth”

Recycling
The market is expanding as waste and regulation rise, yet economics will hinge on sorting, chemistry, and consistent quality—not...

US cotton acreage set to dip in 2026 as rotations win and ELS rebounds

Fibres
U.S. cotton growers plan to plant 9.0m acres in 2026, down 3.2% from 2025, according to the National Cotton...

Turkey’s textile squeeze: Europe cools, costs bite, and rivals encircle

Trade
Nearshoring still sells—but not at any price, and Turkey’s cost base is drifting out of range. Turkey remains a top-tier...

Bangladesh’s US trade deal swaps tariff crumbs for big-ticket commitments

Trade
Washington offered Dhaka limited relief on garments—but won deep purchase pledges and wide regulatory concessions. The Bangladesh–United States agreement is...
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