
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

KARACHI – The International Finance Corp (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, is to help textile manufacturers in Pakistan cut energy consumption and

MUMBAI – Synthetic microfibres from clothing have been found in leading brands of sea salts by Indian researchers. Eight brands of sea salts were tested

BRUSSELS – Cambodia is on the brink of losing duty-free trading access to the European Union. European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia Malmström has issued a

LONDON – Fashion bosses in the UK are being asked by the Government to reveal their environmental record. Amid growing concerns about the wasteful nature

BRUSSELS – The possible reintroduction of EU trade sanctions against Myanmar would “make no sense on any level,” according to a leading campaign group. Burma

ISTANBUL – Leading global fashion brands Inditex, H&M and ASOS have pledged to help develop collective bargaining mechanisms and better conditions for over 600,000 garment

ROME – The net would appear to be closing further on three chemicals which are used in textile manufacture for their water and oil resistance
TEXAS – Burkina Faso has the potential to become a major hub for organic cotton, a recent meeting concluded. US non-profit Textile Exchange recently staged

LENZING – There is fresh evidence to suggest the luxury apparel sector is embracing sustainability. In an exclusive interview with Apparel Insider, Amit Gautam, executive
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