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TextileGenesis blockchain tracing

solution to trace sustainable viscose

TextileGenesis blockchain tracing solution is used to trace sustainable viscose in garments. The TextileGenesis
platform uses Fibrecoins as their blockchain-based digital tokens, which provide a "digital twin" for sustainable
fibers. Once a fiber is produced, every kilogram of the fiber is represented in the platform by one Fibrecoin.
Supply chain players can transfer these digital coins in parallel to the production of textile products as they
move through the supply chain.

With many traceability technologies on the market today, the TextileGenesis platform can operate across all
standards, platforms, and industries, aggregating and incorporating them into a single system. This allows
brands visibility over their products and demonstrates its industry-wide application.

Viscose Traceability Pilot is a consortium project with partners Bestseller and Kering to trace sustainable
viscose in garments using the TextileGenesis blockchain tracing solution. Incorporating physical tracer
certificates demonstrates the platform's interoperability, that is, its ability to communicate and aggregate
information from other systems. Due to the success of this pilot, the TextileGenesis platform and solution will be
scaled with Fashion for Good partners beyond viscose to include other sustainable fibers such as organic
cotton and recycled polyester.
Craftmanship combines

HempX: AGI Denim’s first Cradle to knitting technology

Cradle Certified fabric AGR and Knitwear Lab collaborate on a knitwear brand has caught the eye and dressed Jorja Smith,

Burna Boy, Anderson Paak, Greenteapeng, Mahalia,
capsule collection that combines craftsmanship and
knitting technology named "SS22 15-piece Capsule Slow Thai, and Yung T & Bugsey. Through Alicia
AGI Denim has introduced its first Cradle to Cradle efficiency and sustainable production. Material Collection". Knitwear Lab is a Netherland-based firm Robinson's extensive work as a Freelance Knitwear
Certified denim fabric named HempX. The HempX health, material conservation, clean energies, carbon known for its research and innovation in the knitting Designer with Yeezy, A-Cold-Wall, and Missoni, AGR
fabric is made of a mix of cottonized hemp and recycling, water stewardship, and social fairness are world. Francesca Pedrini, Knitwear Lab's senior was established over the past five years. Through
organic cotton. The material can either be made in among the five areas measured by the third-party programmer, used her technical expertise to realize combining authentic craftmanship with the latest
rigid fabrications or with stretch, courtesy of commodity certification program. A commodity is the creative vision of AGR's creative director Alicia knitwear technology, Knitwear Lab and AGR continue
eco-friendly elastane. As the demand for sustainable ranked as essential, bronze, silver, gold, or platinum Robinson. Key inspirations draw from the hypnotizing to rejuvenate the dowdy image and push the
denim grows, so too does the need for thorough for each type. Cottonization takes specific parts of color-intensive immersions by Rothko and Roy boundaries of knitwear today.
auditing of supply chains beyond single facets of hemp plants and turns them into fibers that can be Colmer, the quirks of ordinary life portrayed by Martin
compliance. Further reducing the water impact of put through cotton machinery. It also softens the Parr, and the ecstatic visual language of the nineties Stripes and gradients are an integral element of
HempX, AGI Denim has an on-site effluent treatment fibers, giving hemp-based denim the same hand rave culture. AGR's brand DNA. In collaboration with AGR,
plant that processes 300,000 gallons of water per feels as cotton jeans. KNITWEAR LAB experimented with emulating spray
day. The manufacturer is certified to Zero Discharge SS22 15-piece Capsule Collection consists of a and pixels into jacquard for the 15-piece capsule with
of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) standards, and Hemp could become the next primary cotton 15-piece knitwear collection. Knitwear Lab develops the highest-quality fine Merino wool made on
Oeko-Tex certification proves the lack of toxic materials. replacement in the apparel industry, thanks to innovative, sustainable, and design-driven knitwear KNITWEAR LAB's STOLL ADF multi-gauge knitting
expanding regulations and new developments in the solutions. Over the past years, the studio has grown machines. Based on this, one of the statement
HempX saves on resources since cultivating hemp field. Hemp has the power to make more natural to be one of northern Europe's most prominent pieces of the 15-piece capsule - the Cherish
requires less water than cotton. Additionally, hemp’s denim, which has become the subject of several research and knowledge hubs for knitwear. Knitwear cardigan - translates a mural by artist Joe Holbrook
natural pest resistance removes the need for recent collections, thanks to its regenerative and less Lab's programmers work with the latest Stoll ADF flat painted on the wall of AGR's studio into jacquard.
pesticides. AGI’s Double Zero process cuts the use water-intensive properties. HempX is just launching knitting machines. This is the first of a series of From December to January, the collection will be sold
of fresh water in wet processing by 85 percent and for the Fall 2022 season, and AGI Denim is ready to collaborations for Knitwear Lab with high-end brands. as part of AGR's SS22 collection through AGR and
eliminates wastewater. The mill has also swapped 70 scale up the material as demand grows. Similar to KNITWEAR LAB's web stores and AGR's stockists
percent of its cotton to Better Cotton Initiative fibers, how recycled cotton began as a niche material and Since AGR was founded in June 2019, the such as DSM, SSENSE, Browns Net-a-Porter, and H
which are made using farming practices that protect grew to be adopted in the mainstream, hemp is still a experimental brand has grown at a fast rate. The Town.
worker welfare and field health while promoting water novelty rather than a widespread fiber in denim.

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