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1w ago
Supply Trace, a pilot established jointly by Sheffield Hallam University and Northeastern University, is using machine learning to develop a free-to-access, searchable online platform that enables anyone to explore tens of millions of shipping records - with the goal ..read more
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1w ago
VILNIUS – Secondhand fashion marketplace Vinted has turned a profit for the first time in a sector where it is notoriously difficult to do so. The Lithuanian company reported a 61% year-on-year revenue growth for 2023, with a net profit of €17.8 ..read more
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1w ago
LONDON – People in the UK are throwing out almost half (49%) of their unwanted used textiles in the general rubbish bin, according to new research from waste recycling charity WRAP. On average, each person in Britain throws 35 items of unwanted textiles straight into ..read more
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3w ago
ST GALLEN - A team from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (Empa) has developed a water-repellent coating process for textiles which, the team says, can provide an alternative to the use of fluorine-containing PFAS (per- and ..read more
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3w ago
LENZING - An investigation has been launched after a fire broke out today at the Austrian headquarters and production facilities of cellulosic fibre manufacturer Lenzing. "Today, April 19, 2024, at 8:36am, a fire broke out in the area of the Laugeturm (CAP exhaust ..read more
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GLOBAL - Major corporations - including fashion giants H&M, Zara owner Inditex, Uniqlo owner Fast Retailing, Nike and Adidas - are significantly off track the Paris Agreement goal of limiting climate change to 1.5°C, according to a new report. A total of 51 major ..read more
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WAKEFIELD – Our host Philip Berman sits down with Sean Cady, vice president of global sustainability, responsibility and trade for VF Corporation and also elected board director for Cascale, and Andrew Martin, executive vice president of Cascale for our latest podcast ..read more
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LONDON - Socially responsible fashion brand Urbanic has completed a $150 million Series C funding round to improve its technology and scale-up its supply chain sustainability.
The investment will be used to ramp up the company’s implementation of AI technology which it uses to generate fashion designs and online content, while also using it to minimise inventory waste and deadstock in its manufacturing operations ..read more
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WAKEFIELD - The new edition of our Ecotextile News magazine - due out next week - considers some of the challenges of scaling innovations in the textiles industry following the demise of Swedish recycling pioneer Renewcell.
Our editor John Mowbray argues that the collapse of Renewcell - which was declared bankrupt at the end of last month - was the result of a combination of failure by brands, investors and the company’s own business plan.
Katherine Albertson, a former project manager with a US bio-based materials pioneer, asks whether fashion brands are really the best customers for textile i ..read more
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DHAKA - The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) has called on the Bangladesh government and the country’s major textile industry trade body to end the ongoing detention and the continued threat of detention, of thousands of workers related to the protests over the minimum wage at the end of 2023.
Outlining the strong relationship between the US and Bangladesh, and the latter's position as the third largest supplier of garments to the US, Stephen Lamar, president and CEO of the AAFA, expressed the organisation’s concern over the threats facing minimum wage protesters ..read more