Bangladesh is a land of golden fiber. Bangladesh has the potential to become the main supplier of jute to the global car industry. The industry needs about 1,00,000 tons of jute a year, of which 12,000 tons come from Bangladesh. Jute is one of the cheapest and the strongest of all natural fibers and considered as the fiber of the future. The car industry uses the natural fiber to manufacture the interiors of vehicles. Previously, the car industry used glass fiber to manufacture the interior

The global silk market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 7.6 per cent from 2017 to 2025. Growth can be attributed to technological advancements in sericulture, which directly increases silk yield. Moreover silk is a low capital investment industry in terms of technology and labor. Though demand for silk products is growing in Europe and North America, the Asia-Pacific region is the largest market for silk. It has a large number of textile manufacturers and growing demand from the domestic m

Australian wool prices increased by almost 30 per cent compared to last year. It’s being driven by China’s unstoppable appetite for Merino wool. China’s wool imports increased 4.5 per cent from the previous year. Domestic consumption of woolen products in China has grown dramatically in the last five years. Previously most processing was for export, while today at least 50 per cent is for domestic use, and this is growing year on year. Consumers in China were previously driven by pr

London - Although it has been nearly five years since the most deadly accident in the history of garment manufacturing took place - Rana Plaza - the need for brands and trade unions to take on the responsibility to improve the lives of millions of workers remains. A new report from the NYU Stren Centre for Business and Humans Rights concludes that “dangerous conditions” are still present in thousands of garment factories across Bangladesh, which is exactly why global labour organizations are dem

Suominen, a leading nonwovens company, is celebrating its 120-year history. Juho Wiktor Suominen (1877–1935) established a tannery workshop in Nakkila, Finland on 16 April 1898. Today, one of Suominen Corporation’s eight production plants is still located at the same site. Juho W. Suominen’s company started out handcrafting leather for local shoemakers, but by 1908, thanks to increasing demand from the shoe industry in Finland, the company was already operating a factory-like tannery powere

A leading sourcing summit Intertextile Shanghai Apparel Fabrics wrapped up last month with a 15% increase in the buyer figure, attracting 82,314 visitors coming from 104 countries and regions. The show also hosted 3,386 exhibitors from 22 countries and regions at the National Exhibition and Convention Center. Strong growth was registered in buyers from Hong Kong, Korea, Japan and India – this edition’s top four countries and regions – while Italy and Bangladesh entered the top 10 list this

US based biotech company Bolt Threads has introduced its second material to the world, Mylo – a commercially available leather grown from mycelium, the root structure of a mushroom. The company’s first novel material was bio-fabricated spider silk, Microsilk, which has been used by apparel and lifestyle brands like Best Made Co., for its limited-edition beanies. For this launch, Bolt Threads partnered with biomaterials company Ecovative to license the initial mycelium technology, and then per

From poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering our beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills, the growth of plastics is now threatening the survival of our environment. In response, Earth Day, which is celebrated on 22 April, will this year focus on providing the information on how to end plastic pollution. In February, Aquafil, a leading producer of nylon yarn, and H&M joined forces to make sustainable fashion accessible an

Workers at more than 3,000 subcontracting readymade garment factories in Bangladesh have been working under dangerous conditions five years after Rana Plaza collapse as the factories still lack safety measures, according to a recent study of New York University. The study titled ‘Five Years After Rana Plaza: The Way Forward’ conducted by the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights estimates that there are more than 3,000 subcontracting factories in the country and it will take $1.2 bil

Dr Kevin Nelson, TissueGen’s founder and CSO, will be presenting on the latest advancements in extrusion technology, which are enabling the next generation of drug delivery, at BIOMEDevice Boston, this week. Dr Nelson will discuss how the evolution of the medical device industry has brought drug delivery to the forefront of the market. More than ever before, drug delivery coupled with a medical device is improving patient care. The emergence of new extrusion methods that occur at or below bod