Dhana, a sustainable and circular fashion company, has unveiled the Dhana Circular Fashion Collection with the debut of the Limited Edition Circular Memory Jacket, which is designed for cyclability, and is zero-waste, and closed-loop, constructed from upcycled textiles bound for the landfill. Dhana has premiered the jacket with a Kickstarter campaign.Pic: PR Newswire/DhanaThe Dhana Circular Fashion Collection fulfils the target action items outlined in the Global Fashion Agenda's 2020 Commit

The London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB) and QSA Partners have announced another major milestone in their Circular Fashion Fast Forward project, by working with Adidas to create a new Adidas Infinite Play service. The tailored service will allow Adidas and its customers to maximise value of Adidas gear by passing it on instead of sending it to landfill.Adidas Infinite Play, which is available through the Adidas app, will allow customers to trade worn or unused Adidas gear for an e-gift card

Originating in Switzerland and founded in 1853, Saurer is a leading technology group focusing on machinery and components for yarn processing. After having participated in the first CIIE last year, Saurer will once again take part in this important event this year, presenting its new air-spinning machineAutoairo, which the company launched at ITMA Barcelona on 20 June. At the CIIE in November, the Autoairo will be exhibited in Asia for the first time.“Autoairo has set new benchmarks for air spin

Leading resource-based manufacturing group Royal Golden Eagle (RGE) has announced plans to invest US$ 200 million over the next 10 years into cellulosic textile fibre R&D. The investment, revealed ahead of the Textile Exchange Sustainability Conference in Vancouver, will support solutions in alternative cellulose or plant-based feedstock and closed-loop manufacturing.Viscose fibre. © Sateri“This is a strategic business growth area for RGE. Our integrated portfolio of companies across pulp, f

World Cotton Day also aims to highlight the challenges that the world’s cotton economies face, as cotton is significant for the underdeveloped, developing and developed economies worldwide.Figure 1: world cotton productionare about 25 million tons or 110 million bales annually, accounting for 2.5% of theworld’sarable land.The WTO Secretariat organized the event in collaboration with the Secretariats of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the United Nations Conference on T

CanopyStyle and the ZDHC Roadmap to Zero Programme have joined hands to intensify their collaborative work toward tackling the negative impacts of chemical processing, wastewater discharge, and raw material sourcing in viscose production. The partnership unites the two organisations’ expertise on very different sustainability issues in the fashion industry.“With these two strong organisations aligning and collaborating, contributors and partners of both ZDHC and CanopyStyle can now rest assured

What:Moda Biella ventures in India with OCM. The brand was launched in Dubai earlier this month, in the presence of the crème-de-la-crème of the textile industry from PAN-India.Who:Moda Biella is an Italian luxury heritage fashion brand producing superfine exotic fibres and forays into the Indian market with India’s largest textile manufacturers-OCM.Collection:The brand presents an array of fabrics in blends of cashmere, merino, silk and linen.Bytes:Setting the premise for the launch, Vikram Mah

Indonesia will tighten restrictions on textile imports to shield local industries, according to foreign trade director general Indrasari Wisnu Wardhana, who has said the trade ministry will require all textile importers to receive government approval before they can ship in textile goods. The move will protect local products like certain yarns and fabrics.The revision to regulations is expected to be issued before President Joko Widodo, who takes office for the second term on October 20, appoint

Power loom weavers and textile workers from Surat in Gujarat and Bhiwandi in Maharashtra have started sending postcards to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to keep the textile sector out of the ambit of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). The postcards say RCEP will harshly affect the power loom sector and render thousands jobless.RCEP is being negotiated currently in Bangkok by 16 nations.more than 50,000 weavers and workers from Bhiwandi and Surat have started sendin

India ranked seventh in the Brand Finance Nation Brands 2019 ranking, up from ninth last year, after recording 19 per cent growth in brand value to $2.6 trillion, according to a report by brand valuation consultancy Brand Finance. Looking beyond the top 10, the average year-on-year nation brand value growth among developing nations stands at 13.9 per cent.Pic: Brand FinanceThis is compared to 0.4 per cent for the developed economies included in the annual study of the world’s 100 most valuable n