The world's first large-scale plant for automatic textile sorting started operation at SYSAV's facility in Malmö, the largest city in the Swedish county of Scania. A 30-metre long machine has a sorting capacity of 24,000 tonnes of textiles per year and is reportedly expected to revolutionise Swedish textile recycling and create new markets for textile waste.Pic: ShutterstockThe SYSAV waste-to-energy plant is owned by fourteen local authorities. The sorting plant in Malmö is owned and ope

Indian minister of finance and corporate affairs Nirmala Sitharaman today announced guaranteed credit for supporting stressed sectors, as part of Atmanirbhar Bharat Package 3.0. Tenor of additional credit under ECLGS 2.0 will be 5 years, including one-year moratorium on principal repayment. The scheme will be available till March 31, 2021.Pic: ShutterstockThe Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme (ECLGS) 2.0 is to be utilised for 100 per cent guaranteed collateral free additional credit at capp

WAKEFIELD - In the second part of our look at the Swedish government's proposed tax on chemicals in textiles, we talk to some of those in support of the project.Three experts join our host, Michael Schragger, founder of the Sustainable Fashion Academy, to discuss whether the proposal will lead to a reduction in harmful chemicals in Sweden and globally.They are Therese Jacobsson, head of ocean, water and toxics at the Swedish Society of Nature Conservation; Daniel Slunge, an environmental eco

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval to introduce Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme in 10 key sectors, including textiles, for enhancing India’s manufacturing capabilities and enhancing exports. The Southern India Mills’ Association (SIMA) and the Indian Texpreneurs Federation (ITF) have welcomed the scheme.Pic: Shutterstock"The PLI scheme will be implemented by the concerned ministries/departments and will be within the overall financial l

Double Elevenlive stream of Shine Nice, a famous company of wallcloth,was held successfully on the evening of November 9th. There were new arrivals, seckill-low price inlimited time, limited time discounts, rain of red envelopes in the live streaming chat room which attract manyconsumersto enter into thelive streaming chat room and interact with the anchor. Globaltextiles offered this live steam technical support and was acknowledged byShine Nice.

Releasing its first estimate of the cotton crop for the new season 2020-21 which began on October 1, the Cotton Association of India (CAI) has estimated the crop at 356 lakh bales of 170 kg each, equivalent to 378.25 lakh running bales of 160 kg each. The estimate for the ongoing season is less by 4 lakh bales than previous year's crop of 360 lakh bales.Pic: Shutterstock"Reduction in cotton crop for the season is on account of damage reported to the crop in some pockets due to the exces

Duvaltex, a leader in contract textiles, and Steelcase, the leader in office furniture, have launched Intersection, an exclusive Steelcase screen and panel fabric. Created in partnership with Seaqual initiative, which turns marine plastic waste into recycled products with full traceability, Intersection is the first Ocean Waste Clean Impact Textiles.Pic: DuvaltexOffered in 17 colours, Intersection is available throughout the Steelcase surface materials distribution network and applicable on over

AMSTERDAM - Dutch fibre solutions company The Movement has signed a deal with textiles recycler Giotex to embed its Aware tracer particles in the latter's recycled cotton blended yarn.It means that The Movement's Aware integrity solution is now available in North and South America via Giotex which claims to be the largest spinner of recycled cotton and polyester pre-dyed fibres and blends in the Americas.The two companies say that the agreement means that US brands and retailers, which m

LONDON – UK waste recycling charity WRAP has today announced the first batch of companies and organisations to join its Textiles 2030 voluntary initiative, with Next, Primark and John Lewis amongst the retailers to have pledged their allegiance ahead of its April launch.The introduction of this initiative comes as WRAP releases the findings of new consumer research which suggests that more than half of the population (63 per cent) now deem the environmental impact of their clothes as ‘severe’.By

Ahead of the busy festive season, M&S is increasing capacity at its online distribution centre at Castle Donington, as the retailer gets set to deliver the most digital Christmas yet30% colleague increase to online distribution team for Christmas 2020Contactless click and collect service expanding to 16 storesRobust hygiene & social distancing measures remain in place across the siteAs part of its Never the Same Again programme, M&S is turbocharging growth on M&S.com reflecting t