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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...

Techtextil 2026 puts performance apparel at the centre of textile innovation

Apparel
Frankfurt’s growing performance-apparel zone shows that functional textiles are no longer a niche: they are becoming one of fashion’s...

Jeanologia’s Billy AI turns a vintage jean photo into a laser file

Denim
The new tool compresses hours of expert denim finishing work into minutes—pushing laser design closer to software automation than...

Uster tries to make automated fabric inspection less intimidating for mills

Machinery
Fabric Vision 2 is designed to solve the real barrier to automation in inspection: not the camera, but the...

MISSION turns compression wear into a cooling category

Technical Textiles
The new collection suggests performance accessories are evolving from simple support gear into multi-function products that combine recovery, heat...

EDANA unveils nominees for INDEX™26 Awards: Highlighting the next generation of nonwoven excellence

Nonwovens
EDANA is proud to unveil the highly anticipated nominees for the INDEX™26 Awards, the nonwoven industry’s highest accolade for...

Textile machinery’s next decade will be won by software, not steel

Technology
Smarter machines, greener systems and more fragmented supply chains are turning textile-equipment makers from hardware vendors into industrial problem-solvers. The...

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,...

Sportswear outgrows fashion as consumers wear wellness as a status

Fashion
The market is not booming. It is polarising: consumers are buying fewer indiscriminate clothes and more items that signal...

Sock manufacturing goes digital as Shima Seiki and Lonati link design to production

Machinery
By connecting virtual design directly to machine programming, Shima Seiki and Lonati are trying to cut sampling waste, shorten...

AI textile sorting could make recycling less manual and more viable

Apparel
Germany’s textile-waste problem is no longer mainly about collection; it is about sorting mixed garments fast enough, accurately enough,...

Apparel Manufacturing in 2026: Eight structural challenges reshaping the industry

Apparel
The apparel manufacturing environment in 2026 has become significantly more complex than it was even five years ago. Clothing...

CreateMe, UNTUCKit and Supima test whether apparel can be bonded, not sewn

Technology
The partnership’s real significance is not a T-shirt launch. It is a commercial test of whether robotics and adhesive...

Milan Fashion Week’s denim says the wash is back

Denim
For autumn/winter 2026–27, denim in Milan moved beyond basics: laundries, coatings and archival nostalgia turned jeans into statement pieces...

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...

From natural fibres to patterned fabrics, Intertextile Apparel’s key pavilions and zones demonstrate industry’s global range

Apparel
Exhibition categories cover suiting and shirting, functional wear, ladieswear, casualwear, and more, with overseas suppliers featured in the International...

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...

Barmag turns “invisible” vehicle yarns into a Techtextil investment case

Technology
Industrial filaments are the quiet safety infrastructure of cars—and Barmag is pitching energy-efficient, recipe-stable production as the new baseline. At...

lululemon’s new “ShowZero” fabric treats sweat as an optical problem

Technical Textiles
By making wet patches stop “darkening” under light, lululemon is selling performance with a confidence benefit—useful in tennis, and...
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