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Levi’s backs regenerative cotton push in Pakistan’s Punjab belt

Cotton
The three-year initiative moves cotton sustainability from farm-level compliance toward landscape restoration, water productivity and farmer resilience. Levi Strauss &...

Karl Mayer opens 5,000-square-metre textile innovation center in Germany

Innovation
The new Obertshausen facility gives brands, mills and technology partners a shared platform to move textile ideas from concept...

trinamiX expands mobile NIR for textile and footwear recycling

Environment
The new application enables on-site identification of textile blends and shoe components, giving manufacturers and recyclers faster material data...

Under Armour joins U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol with traceable cotton pilot in Freedom collection

Sustainability
The move gives the sportswear brand access to verified farm-level environmental data and signals how traceability is becoming a...

The Lab reframes fashion sustainability around care, not just consumption

Sustainability
The biotech fashion-care brand’s new campaign argues that extending garment life must become part of fashion’s sustainability agenda, alongside...

BB Engineering takes textile PET recycling message to PRSE 2026 with VacuFil and COBRA

Recycling
At Amsterdam’s Plastics Recycling Show Europe, the German machinery maker is positioning textile-to-textile PET recycling and lower-cost melt filtration...

Circulose and CTA push recycled lyocell closer to commercial scale

Recycling
The new agreement matters because it extends recycled cellulosic feedstock beyond viscose and into lyocell, a technically more demanding...

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...

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...

Specim launches AI-Powered hyperspectral system for textile identification and sorting

Sustainability
The new platform targets one of textile recycling’s hardest problems: identifying blends, elastane and impurities accurately enough for automated...

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...

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...

Smart textiles are emerging in Bangladesh, but the export shift is still early

Technical Textiles
The direction is strategically right: Bangladesh needs to move beyond basic volume apparel. But smart textiles are not yet...

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...
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