NEWARK – Material science company W. L. Gore has partnered with textile collection and upcycling business Bionic Yarns in a bid to streamline its operational infrastructure and develop more sustainable, high-performance fabrics.Gore recently made an equity investment in Bionic to accelerate the firm’s work, which at present centres on developing a robust material recovery, processing and conversion supply chain within Costa Rica, where it executes beach clean-ups.“Through this collaboration, the

MEMPHIS – Apparel company Gap Inc has joined forces with the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol to accelerate its ambition of sourcing all its cotton from sustainable sources by 2025.Launched to verify sustainability progress through data collection and third-party cooperation, the Protocol aligns users and growers of US cotton in best measuring their impacts across six areas: water use, greenhouse gas emissions, energy use, soil carbon, soil loss and land use efficiency.“As part of our commitment to ad

Environmentally friendly and insect repellent – these are the two key features of a high tech new uniform developed in a partnership between pioneering textile innovators Affix Labs, with its Repeltec technology, Waste2Wear and Logonet. The uniform has been designed to commemorate 60 years of ground-breaking research by the legendary primatologist Jane Goodall and the hard work carried out by the scientists and rangers at the Jane Goodall Institute (JGI) in Gombe, Tanzania.Figure: Affix Labs, Wa

Cotton Association of India (CAI), in its November estimate, has retained cotton crop estimate for the ongoing 2020-21 season at 356 lakh bales of 170 kg each, equivalent to 378.25 lakh running bales of 160 kg each. Cotton crop finalised by the CAI for the previous season 2019-20 was 360 lakh bales of 170 kg each (i.e. 382.50 lakh running bales).Pic: ShutterstockTotal cotton supply estimated by the CAI during the months of October and November 2020 is 201.07 lakh bales of 170 kg each, which comp

In Bangladesh, the RMG industry is again facing hard times with the second COVID-19 wave that influenced Europe and the United States. As BGMEA President Rubana Huq states, buyers delay new orders that may impact the amount of exports. In October, exports of clothing in Bangladesh showed a steep decline, while the clothing exports increased in August and September. In contrast to the respective duration of 2019, the purchasers have placed fewer job orders in November and December.Some textile pr

Bangladesh’s readymade garment (RMG) exporters will miss US$4 billion in the European Union when the duty-free trade facility comes to an end after Bangladesh move out of LDC status, according to a new study by the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).Bangladesh currently enjoys duty-free, quota-free access for all products except arms and ammunition in the EU market as a least developed country under the EBA (Everything But Arms) facility.Figure: Bangladesh’s shipm

GlobalData company analytics data shows a rise in the demand for more sustainable apparel products. The 4-year study by the Renewal Workshop revealed that around 82% of textile and garment waste can be reused and resold.Beth Wright, Apparel Correspondent for GlobalData, has said that the COVID-19 pandemic has caused in increase in responsible consumers particularly amongst the millennial and Gen Z. This generation is more and more turning their back against fast fashion and favoring more circula

2020 New Materials × New Fashion Textiles and Garments Summit Forum raised three fashion topics in the future--sustainability,functionality and new materials on the morning of December 3rd which attracted more than 200 domestic and foreign brands. They gathered in KeQiao when China Textile Material Exhibition, Keqiao, Shaoxing opend.Garment brands and upstream big companies such as H&M, 361 °, Dupont and Egret Chemical Fiber attended the forum.

Garment factories close to the United States aiming to steal a share from Chinese manufacturers must address fabric production infrastructure and expand into more categories if they hope to convince brands to relocate, according to data analytics company GlobalData, which said few such firms have managed to successfully shift production out of China at scale.Pic: ShutterstockThe conversation around nearshoring has intensified in the time between the United States declaring a trade war with China

Statistics Canada estimates that imports of knitted fabricsdropped by 14,70% in 2020 to 127,27 million dollars of knitted garments during the period January-September 2020. China was the biggest shipper to exports to Canada for $41.44 million in knitted fabrics while exporting Y-o-Y decreased 11.5%. The share of Chinese imports in Canada rose to 32,87% in 2020, down from 30,40% in 2019, amid its collapse.The USA, with $24.62 million in shipping, was the second-largest exporting country, down 21.