Ralph Lauren will use renewable electricity to power all of its globally owned and operated offices, distribution centres and stores by 2025, and join RE100, a group of influential businesses committed to the use of renewable power. The initiative on sustainability builds on the commitments outlined in the company’s Design the Change strategy.Pic: Ralph Lauren CorporationThe announcement advances the company’s work to integrate citizenship and sustainability across its global business.In additio

© Messe Frankfurt.The UK, Pakistan and Switzerland are the winners of the secondNew & Next university competitionat Heimtextil (7-10 January 2020). Three renowned universities from these countries won this year's design competition in the run-up to the 50th edition of Heimtextil out of a total of 18 international submissions.Following the successful launch of the competition at the last event, the 50th edition of Heimtextil also offered budding textile designers the chance to submit thei

Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Ltd. (ABFRL) recently launched an open ‘Innovation Challenge’ with Circular Apparel Innovation Factory (CAIF) to spearhead a change in packaging and find innovative alternatives to plastics. The company endeavours to lead industry practices around sustainability, ABFRL managing director Ashish Dikshit said at the launch.Pic: Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail LtdInnovation Challenge aims to find solutions to plastics, one of the industry’s biggest challenges.Accordin

Cost-cutting pressures, competition from low-cost countries and constantly emerging incremental technologies have become industrial norms these days.How can industries such as textiles and manufacturing survive in these competitive climates? It is a luxury to utilize resources and talents belonging to others by creating win-win situations. This is ‘Resource Outsourcing,’ which is turning out to be a boon for industries ranging from semiconductors to bio-medicine to advanced textiles.Figure: ‘Res

Over 7.447 million bales of cotton have arrived in 2019-20 season at various ginneries in Pakistan, as on December 1, 2019, down 20.49 per cent over arrival of 9.336 million bales during the corresponding period of last season, according to the latest fortnightly report on cotton arrivals, released by Pakistan Cotton Ginners’ Association (PCGA).Pic: ShutterstockIn the major cotton producing province of Punjab, total cotton arrivals decreased by 24.06 per cent year-on-year to 4.141 million bales,

Manipur is considering a policy measure to replace fabrics used in stitching school uniforms with the state’s handloom products, chief minister Nongthombam Biren Singh said while inaugurating the first handloom and handicrafts mall in Imphal East district last week. The mall is being run by the Manipur Handloom and Handicrafts Development Corporation (MHHDC) Ltd.Pic: ShutterstockThe chief minister said half of the micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) business in Manipur is owned by women,

A number of new brands, manufacturers and fabric mills have joined Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Jeans Redesign initiative, pledging to meet guidelines setting out minimum requirements on garment durability, material health, recyclability and traceability.The latest brands to join the project, which was launched by Make Fashion Circular, an initiative from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, are Ateliers and Repairs, Bam Bamboo Clothing, Blue of a kind, Fairblue Jeans, Frank and Oak, and Guess.New ma

Under the Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP) approved during the 10th Five Year Plan in 2005, the ministry of textiles sanctioned 59 textile parks, out of which only 22 have been completed while the rest are under various stages of construction, textiles minister Smriti Irani informed parliament lower house recently. Progress in SITP’s growth has been slow, she said.Shutterstock"The slow progress in the implementation of the textile parks under the SITP has been attributed primarily

UK-based apparel personalisation fulfilment businesses Slick Stitch, which offers a full suite of technology-led solutions like warehousing, garment embellishment and consumer logistics, recently acquired DollyMix Boutique, a leading player in children’s wear personalisation in the United Kingdom. Slick Stitch operates in the United States, Europe and Asia.Pic: DollyMix BoutiqueWhile Wolverhampton-based Slick Stitch is looking to accelerate growth in the United Kingdom and abroad in the coming y

The fashion industry worldwide is immensely overburdened with overstock, throwaway clothes, single-use plastics ending up in landfills or released micro particles-dyes and chemicals polluting the marine system and putting the lives of living creations at risk.Figure 1:Digitized data system ensures no more dead stock.The giant brands, fashion retailers operate mostly in an open-loop business model which is day by day increasing the never-ending fashion waste.For years researchers, scientists, man