Apparel Insider

PARIS – Waste2Wear has launched what is claimed to be the world’s first collection of fabrics made from ocean plastics…
Read the full story… Ocean plastic fibres use blockchain in world first

DHAKA – 25,000 workers have been laid off in the Bangladeshi ready-made garment (RMG) sector since February amid the closure…
Read the full story… Price squeeze hits Bangladesh factories

CHITTAGONG – Talk of automation, artificial intelligence and digitisation in apparel supply chains is misplaced and misleading claims one of…
Read the full story… Robotics and tech talk is misplaced, says supplier

BERLIN – The German Government has announced that 27 companies have immediately signed up to its newly launched ‘Green Button’…
Read the full story… German brands embrace national textile standard

BANGKOK – Austrian wood-based fibre business, Lenzing, has unveiled further details of its plans to establish the world’s largest lyocell…
Read the full story… Lenzing to build world’s largest lyocell plant

NEW YORK – An alliance of 64 NGOs and trade unions in Germany, including Human Rights Watch, has launched an…
Read the full story… 64 NGOs lobby for EU supply chain laws

LONDON – Alarming new research has highlighted intensifying supply chain risks for apparel brands sourcing from Xinjiang and China as…
Read the full story… Cotton linked to child and forced labour in China

CALIFORNIA – Levi Strauss has launched several new product lines using rain-fed, cottonized hemp, which it first introduced in its…
Read the full story… Hemp use gains momentum at Levi’s

SHEFFIELD – UK tech company, Xeros, which provides water saving and filtration technologies, has signed a major deal with Ramsons,…
Read the full story… India deal for xeros’ water saving tech