The United Nations proclaimed World Cotton Day to be celebrated every year on 7th October to raise awareness of the importance of using responsibly sourced cotton, the ‘white gold’ grown in more than 100 countries representing a vital source of fiber and food for...
Resonance Companies last week announced a key milestone in driving the return of domestic textile manufacturing — the opening of the company’s first stateside sew production facility in New York City. The 300 square-foot facility is housed at Pier 59 in Chelsea Piers,...
Polo Ralph Lauren has released its US Open Campaign and Collection in line with the New York based US Open Tennis Championships. Like previous years, the design house has produced a range of uniforms for on-court officials and ball people. Designs take into...
For another consecutive year, the international OEKO -TEX® Association reported positive results, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The association issued more than 31,000 certificates and labels in the past financial year, an increase of 31% compared...
Textile testing partner Hohenstein has developed a new quantification method specifically for genetically modified cotton. One of the first labs with this ability, Hohenstein uses DNA analysis to identify known genetic modifications and calculate their percentage in...
United States biotechnology company LanzaTech has partnered with lululemon athletica, an athletic apparel company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, to create the world’s first yarn and fabric using recycled carbon emissions that would otherwise be emitted to the...
Textile technology innovation leaders, The Lycra Company and HeiQ, have entered into a broad-based collaboration across multiple technology and brand platforms that promises to bring more innovative, quality-enhancing and sustainable textile technologies to consumers...
Chemical giant DuPont has launched a fabric collection made with DuPont Biomaterials Sorona, a sustainable, partially bio-based polymer, and JayaShree Textiles, a division of Aditya Birla Group. The collaboration is said to meet the needs of a growing demand for...
Engineers have developed the world's first digital fiber, capable of capturing, storing and analyzing a variety of data. The breakthrough technology, detailed last week in the journal Nature Communications, could be paired with machine learning algorithms and used to...
It’s now as easy to wear a plastic water bottle as to drink out of one. The appeal for brands to use recycled plastic water bottles to make their gear is simple: recycling, they say, is a more earth-friendly alternative. And though bottles aren’t the only form of...
COBMEX® took a leadership role in bringing STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® to the North American Uniform industry. With two years of positive feedback from customers and the overwhelming success of the COBMEX® certified STANDARD 100 by OEKO-TEX® Contemporary Collection,...
Everything you make returns to the earth either as food or poison. That unsettling line appears on the website for the Slow Factory Foundation, a 501c3 public service organization operating as an open education institute, an independent research lab & new media...
