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Adidas leads pack in new human rights benchmark
LONDON – Adidas is the world’s top scoring company in a new benchmark which assesses businesses on their respect for
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Online fashion bosses face Parliamentary grilling
LONDON – UK Government has written to several online fashion retailers, including Boohoo, PrettyLittleThing and Misguided, after evidence given in
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Bangladesh facing supply chain chaos if Accord exits this month
DHAKA – 532 factories could potentially be declared ineligible to produce for Bangladesh Accord signatory companies by 1 January 2019
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HeiQ and DuPont partner on PFC-free water-repellent
ZÜRICH – A new PFC-free water-repellent for leather has been established by Swiss textile technology business HeiQ and DuPont Consumer
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Organic cotton output rises 10 per cent
TEXAS – Latest figures show global organic cotton output rose by 10 per cent to 117,525 MT in the 2016/17
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Odour-free, silver-treated clothing poses toxic threat, claims report
STOCKHOLM – New Swedish research claims clothing treated with silver poses a toxic threat to sediment-dwelling creatures and organisms in
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SAC outlines ambitious Higg scaling plans
SAN FRANCISCO – Sustainable Apparel Coalition CEO, Jason Kibbey, has told Apparel Insider about its ambitious growth targets as it
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EU warns Myanmar over labour rights
BRUSSELS – The EU has warned Myanmar it must act now to address “severe shortcomings” in human and labour rights
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Sri Lanka trade benefits threatened by political turmoil
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s duty-free access to the European Union is under threat after the country’s president replaced the elected
Lenzing invests €30m in luxury yarn line
24th May 2018
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LENZING – This week offers further evidence that the luxury fashion sector is embracing sustainability. Austrian specialist fibre maker, Lenzing, has announced a massive expansion
New fibres derived from coconut by-products
24th May 2018
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PERTH – An Australian tech business this week launched the first plant-free viscose-rayon fibres at an industry conference in Vancouver. Nanollose has set up a
Calotropis procera plant fibres set for production
24th May 2018
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KENYA – Clothing made with Calotropis procera, a species of flowering plant native to parts of Africa and Asia, are likely to hit shops before
Unions, government discuss fair wages in Ethiopia
24th May 2018
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ADDIS ABABA – Government, union leaders and textile manufacturers met this week to discuss wages and worker rights in Ethiopia’s rapidly developing textile sector. Among
