
Türkiye textile sector contracts sharply in 2025
ISTANBUL – Türkiye’s textile and apparel industry entered 2026 with fresh signs of contraction, after more than 4,500 companies shut

ISTANBUL – Türkiye’s textile and apparel industry entered 2026 with fresh signs of contraction, after more than 4,500 companies shut

PARIS – The French Government has asked its Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) operator, Refashion, to propose new penalties for ultra

LONDON – Valentino Garavani, the Italian designer whose gowns helped define post-war glamour and dressed generations of royalty and film

LENZING – Fibre maker Lenzing and Energie AG Umwelt Service have extended their partnership in Reststoffverwertung Lenzing (RVL) to the

SEOUL – South Korea researchers have developed a method that removes microplastics in minutes by drawing the particles together with

SYDNEY – New research shows how wool’s reported carbon footprint can fall sharply when biogenic carbon flows are included in

PRATTELN – Archroma and HeiQ have entered a co-marketing agreement to expand HeiQ’s textile performance technologies to retailers and mills

CALIFORNIA – Next Level Apparel, which sells premium blank T shirts and other basics, has joined the U.S. Cotton Trust

PEORIA – US biomaterials developer Natural Fiber Welding (NFW) has secured fresh funding to continue work on its bio-based material

NEW YORK – Near-shoring of apparel production is forecast to soar as automation and rising labour costs in Asia mean the economics of producing closer

AMSTERDAM – A group of global institutional investors with combined assets of more than €725bn have called for fairer wages in textile supply chains. The

TOKYO – One of the world’s leading fast fashion brands is to introduce automation in its warehouses which will help it slash staffing levels by

ADDIS ABABA – The World Bank is to launch a project to support Ethiopia in the greening of its rapidly growing textile industry. Apparel Insider

DHAKA – Labour rights groups in Bangladesh are calling for better financial protection for workers in the wake of industrial accidents. The groups point out

CALIFORNIA – 42 institutional investors have now signed a statement urging global home goods and apparel brands and retailers to take action to address exposure

BERLIN – Hudson’s Bay Company and Signa Holding have entered into an agreement to merge Germany’s Galeria Kaufhof and Karstadt in a move which will

SAN FRANCISCO – US denim brand Levi Strauss has joined the debate on gun violence in the US. In a significant move, the company’s CEO

STOCKHOLM – H&M Foundation has put one million Euros up for grabs as part of its fourth annual innovation challenge. The non-profit is keen to
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