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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 &...

GOTS-Certified facilities rise 15% as textile due diligence tightens

Sustainability
The growth of GOTS certification shows how organic textile standards are becoming compliance infrastructure for brands and suppliers, not...

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...

India’s textile waste market could reach $3.5 Billion by 2030

Sustainability
New government-backed mapping shows India already recovers most textile waste, but future growth depends on formal recycling infrastructure, cluster-level...

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...

Levi’s faces twin pressure points as labour lawsuit and anti-climate proposal collide

Denim
The denim giant heads into its annual meeting with scrutiny from both labour-rights campaigners in Europe and anti-ESG activists...

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...

Naia makes Kingpins debut with recycled-content fiber pitch for softer, circular denim

Fibres
Eastman’s Naia platform is using Kingpins Amsterdam to argue that denim innovation no longer has to choose between authentic...

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...

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...

Europe’s cotton yarn market shifts toward premium, traceable, and circular supply

Yarns
Europe’s spinning sector is under cost pressure, but regulation and sourcing shifts are opening space for higher-value cotton yarns. Europe’s...

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...

Lycra and Texhong target China core-spun yarn market with plant-based spandex partnership

Fibres
The deal gives Lycra a focused industrial route into China’s core-spun yarn segment while giving Texhong early access to...

China’s AI textile sorter points to a new bottleneck fix in recycling

Technology
Fastsort-Textile does not solve textile waste on its own, but it tackles one of the industry’s hardest operational problems:...

ABB and Syre team up to industrialise textile-to-textile polyester recycling in Vietnam

Sustainability
The partnership underlines a hard truth about textile recycling: scaling circular polyester is no longer just a materials challenge,...

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...
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