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Archroma and HeiQ Join Forces to Accelerate Antimicrobial and Odor-Control Solutions for Global Textiles

Chemicals
Archroma and HeiQ have entered into a co-marketing partnership aimed at strengthening the global textile industry’s access to high-performance...

Techtextil North America Opens 2026 Innovation Awards, Spotlighting Breakthroughs in Technical Textiles, Digitalization, and AI

Nonwovens
Techtextil North America has officially opened submissions for its 2026 Innovation Awards, inviting exhibitors to showcase cutting-edge advancements shaping...

Trevira CS® Brings “WE CARE” to Heimtextil 2026, Blending Flame Safety, Sustainability, and Social Impact

Fibres
Indorama Ventures is set to make a strong statement at Heimtextil 2026 (January 13–16, Frankfurt) with its Trevira CS®...

EcoVadis Sustainability Rating – Gold Medal for the CHT Group

Chemicals
The CHT Group has been awarded the Gold Medal in the latest EcoVadis sustainability rating, recognizing our newly aligned...

EU Mandates Textile EPR: Brands Face New Waste, Export and Compliance Rules

Business
The European Union’s targeted revision of the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) entered into force on 16 October 2025, formally...

Digital Product Passports: from pilot to permanent infrastructure in 2026

Sustainability
Digital Product Passports (DPPs) are no longer an experimental transparency tool. In 2026, they become core infrastructure for the...

Japan bets on a new kind of wearable Textile

Innovation
By moving sensing to the waist, apparel makers are redefining how health data is captured. In Nagoya, a city better...

Recycled polyester is losing its status as a sustainability safe bet

Sustainability
Once marketed as circular by default, the fibre is now colliding with microplastics, health concerns and green-claims risk. For much...

Bangladesh sets a new global benchmark in green garment manufacturing

Sustainability
Record LEED certifications in 2025 underscore a strategic shift from cost leadership to sustainability leadership in apparel sourcing. Bangladesh’s ready-made...

MoistTech’s moisture sensors show how efficiency can be sustainable

Sustainability
Real-time process control is cutting waste and energy use across manufacturing lines. MoistTech Corp. is positioning its IR-3000 Series Moisture...

Climate change could erase $66bn from South Asia’s garment exports by 2030

Garments
Without adaptation, heat stress and flooding threaten jobs, productivity and the industry’s growth model. The apparel industries of Vietnam, Cambodia,...

From citrus waste to cloth: lemon peels enter the textile lab

Innovation
Agricultural byproducts are being recast as functional fibres, pointing to new routes for circular materials. Researchers have demonstrated a method...

The next wave of sustainable dyeing & finishing innovations are set to redefine the industry at ITM 2026

Machinery
Dyeing and finishing technologies, a critical and value-added area of the textile sector, have experienced strong growth momentum on...

adiFORMULATOR AWARD 2025: CHT Group recognized as champion by adidas

Sustainability
For the third time in a row, the CHT Group has been recognized as champion of the adiFORMULATOR AWARD...

Proves end-to-End molecular traceability for recycled cotton

Traceability
SMX has completed a landmark industrial pilot demonstrating, for the first time, permanent, molecular-level traceability of recycled cotton across...

AI sorting is rewriting the economics of textile recycling

Technology
Smart sorting technologies are turning textile waste from a liability into an industrial feedstock—reshaping circularity economics worldwide. Artificial intelligence is...

Kevlar® EXO™ Expands Into Hard Armor: DuPont Brings Next-Gen Aramids to Structural Ballistic Applications

Technical Textiles
DuPont has announced a major expansion of Kevlar® EXO™, positioning the next-generation aramid fiber not only as a breakthrough...

UK Bans ‘Sustainable’ Ads from Nike, Superdry and Lacoste in Escalating Crackdown on Greenwashing

Fashion
UK regulators have banned adverts from Nike, Superdry and Lacoste after determining that each brand misled consumers by using...

France Joins the Circular Denim Race as Kiabi Signs on to the Denim Deal

Denim
The French retailer’s entry marks a step toward industrial-scale circularity in Europe’s denim supply chain. Denim Deal, Europe’s most coordinated...

Archroma funds development of sustainable textile laboratory at Mumbai’s Institute of Chemical Technology

Chemicals
Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals focused on sustainable solutions, has supported the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT),...
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