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SaXcell to open Netherlands pulp plant in 2027
ENSCHEDE – Dutch textile recycling innovator SaXcell has confirmed plans to open a pulp plant in the Netherlands in early
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Primark tightens criteria in its circular guidelines
LONDON – Primark claims 5 per cent of clothing units sold in 2024/25 were ‘circular by design,’ 20 per cent
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Adidas, BESTSELLER and Inditex back textile recycling project
AMSTERDAM – Fashion for Good has launched a new project to help unlock post-consumer textile waste for textile recycling in
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RE&UP recycles 20,000 pairs of jeans for denim capsule
EINDHOVEN – RE&UP, Madewell and ISKO have turned 20,000 pairs of post-consumer jeans into feedstock for a new textile-to-textile denim
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AAFA challenges California textile EPR rollout
WASHINGTON – The American Apparel & Footwear Association has challenged California regulator CalRecycle over the state’s new textile EPR scheme.
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Adriano Goldschmied, ‘Godfather of Denim’, dies aged 82
MILAN – Adriano Goldschmied, the Italian designer widely credited with helping turn jeans into a premium fashion category, has died
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Lycra Company partners with Texhong on renewable fibres
SHANGHAI – Lycra Company is targeting China’s stretch yarn market through a new partnership with Texhong International Group focused on
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AI used in China to slash textile sorting times
ZHANGJIAGANG – A Chinese textile recycler says an AI-powered sorting machine can process 100kg of used clothing in just two
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Spiber relaunches under new leadership
TOKYO – Spiber has relaunched under new leadership, with the Japanese biomaterials company sharpening its focus on commercialisation. Chief executive
Lenzing opens world’s largest lyocell plant in Thailand
3rd March 2022
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PRACHINBURI – Wood-based speciality fibre business, Lenzing Group, has opened the world’s largest lyocell plant in Thailand. The Є400m plant, which has a capacity of100,000
ILO outlines forced labour progress in Uzbek cotton
2nd March 2022
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GENEVA – Uzbekistan’s cotton sector appears to have taken another step towards coming in from the economic cold. The latest International Labour Organisation (ILO) report
Fashion to test fibres from agricultural waste
22nd February 2022
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AMSTERDAM – Fashion for Good has launched a new project which aims to test technologies that can turn agricultural waste into textile fibres. Project partners
Banned PFAS chemicals found in outdoor clothing
8th February 2022
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LONDON – Potentially toxic “forever chemicals” were found in a wide range of outdoor apparel items tested by US researchers. Of 20 outdoor garments tested,
RMG bosses say fashion won’t back sustainability efforts
7th February 2022
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DHAKA – Ready-made garment (RMG) factories in Bangladesh which have invested heavily in sustainability cannot convince to buyers to “pay two cents extra for garment
Shahi Exports claims it will pay minimum wage arrears
1st February 2022
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BANGALORE – India’s largest garment exporter, Shahi Exports, claims it will pay all wage arrears owed to garment workers in full by May 2022. Its
CmiA and Better Cotton form new collaboration
31st January 2022
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LONDON – Aid by Trade Foundation (AbTF), which oversees the Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) initiative, and Better Cotton are establishing a new collaboration focused
BCI, GOTs, CmiA maintain Xinjiang links, paper claims
6th December 2021
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BERLIN – Textile certification schemes which claim to support “more sustainable cotton” continue to have links with Xinjiang in China, despite well-documented human rights risks,
Xinjiang case filed against Patagonia, Nike, C&A
2nd December 2021
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AMSTERDAM – Patagonia, Nike and C&A are accused of profiting from forced labour in the Xinjiang region of China in a criminal complaint filed by
