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Smart Textiles / Wearables

17 August 2023

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The SMART ePANTS project will develop active smart textile garments combining singular micro yarn textile routing system and similar smart fabric technologies with low-power electronics.

US Navy Awards $22.2 million Contract for Development of NextGen Smart Textiles

The US Navy has engaged two tech-science solutions companies to come up with new generations of smart textiles for wearable electronics and computing as part of its SMART ePANTS project.

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Snapshot / Recycling Crisis / I Feature
The textile recycling market is projected to grow, but investment remains concentrated in companies that can demonstrate material flow predictability

The Data Divide: How Traceability Gaps Are Crushing Textile Recycling Economics

  • Subir Ghosh

2 June 2025
Solutions / Recycling Crisis / V Interview
Cetia can sort the garments by composition and colour to obtain a homogeneous deposit for processing, and then run this deposit through its automated unravelling line. This line enables mechanical unravelling. Another approach is to consider “intelligent” dismantling to deconstruct a garment. It is currently developing an intelligent dismantling line to separate the various textile fabrics from elements such as buttons, zips, etc., so that each element can be recycled in its proper recycling route.

Inside Cetia’s Breakthroughs in Shoe Dismantling and Textile Sorting Technologies

  • Subir Ghosh

5 June 2025
 
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Supply Chains / Risks & Resilience Report
A key theme that was apparent across numerous panels is that it is no longer acceptable to send a supplier manual and request an audit alone. Tailored risk assessments and mitigation strategies are required.

What Brands Must Learn from Suez, Stoll and Space: A New Supply Chain Reality

  • Samantha Taylor

13 June 2025
Leader Speak / Alison Ward Interview
Sustainability in cotton supply chains is not just about reducing harm — it's about creating positive outcomes for people and planet. From empowering farmers and transforming processing, to ensuring brand accountability and consumer education, every stage must evolve in tandem.

Inside CottonConnect’s Push for Traceability and Sustainability in Global Cotton

  • Richa Bansal

12 June 2025
 
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Fashion History / Style in my DNA Analysis
1948. Jamaicans on board the Empire Windrush.

Extracts: Style in my DNA — 70 Years of Caribbean Fashion

  • Special Correspondent

28 June 2022
Fossil-Free Fashion / Fibre Development Interview
Natural Fiber Welding

Greenwashing Oversimplifies Highly Technical Issues and Is Pervasive

  • Richa Bansal

11 October 2022
 
Young India Fashion Survey 2025