
US ramps up war on polyester dumping
WASHINGTON – Polyester producers from China, India, Korea and Taiwan have been accused of ‘dumping’ polyester fibre on the US

WASHINGTON – Polyester producers from China, India, Korea and Taiwan have been accused of ‘dumping’ polyester fibre on the US

TEXAS – Organic cotton is not economically viable – this is the contentious claim of the former International Cotton Advisory

BRUSSELS – Communicating wool’s environmental credentials was a key theme of the 87th annual Congress of the IWTO in Hong

LENZING – This week offers further evidence that the luxury fashion sector is embracing sustainability. Austrian specialist fibre maker, Lenzing,

PERTH – An Australian tech business this week launched the first plant-free viscose-rayon fibres at an industry conference in Vancouver.

KENYA – Clothing made with Calotropis procera, a species of flowering plant native to parts of Africa and Asia, are

ADDIS ABABA – Government, union leaders and textile manufacturers met this week to discuss wages and worker rights in Ethiopia’s

TRENTO – Aquafil, an Italian producer of polyamide in Italy, is spearheading a new initiative aimed at increasing the amount

PARIS – A French biotech dye business which engineers microbes to produce natural dyes for textiles has received US$3m in

GUJARAT – The Indian government has announced it will set up two ‘mega’ textile parks in Gujarat, on the western coast of the country, to

WASHINGTON – The United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced it will impose a sweeping regional ban on cotton and tomato-product imports from

KARACHI – Artistic Milliners, a leader in denim fabric and garments headquartered in Karachi, Pakistan, has purchased a denim factory in Los Angeles, California, to

LONDON – The UK’s Foreign Secretary, Dominic Rabb, has warned British businesses they face heavy fines if they are linked to Chinese human rights abuse,

NEW YORK – Swedish textile recycling company, Renewcell, has achieved a market capitalisation of US$1bn less than two months since its Initial Public Offering (IPO)

BRUSSELS – New research has assessed outdoor apparel brands on the work they are doing to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as PFASs,

MANCHESTER – Online fashion retailer Boohoo has shared terms of references of its review into its Leicester supply chain as well as announcing that the

BRUSSELS – More than 150,000 workers in the apparel and footwear sectors of Cambodia – mostly women – have lost their jobs as a result

WASHINGTON – This past week, US President Donald Trump has finally given the green light to legislation calling for sanctions over the repression of China’s
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