Switzerland

A new report from Public Eye lays the foundation for tackling the fashion industry's environmental and social challenges, as it calls for prioritising longevity, resource efficiency, and equity across the value chain, envisioning a fairer and more sustainable future.

Sanitized AG has stood for hygiene management, odour-control, and material protection since 1935. Stefan Mueller, Head, Business Unit Textile Additives, expounds on antimicrobial fabrics/textiles and discusses where the demand is coming from and what his company is doing to cater to this burgeoning market.

Researchers are developing a process with alternative substances that can be used to produce environmentally friendly water-repellent textile fibres.

Scientists at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, better known by the shorter EMPA, have found that some of the supposed nanoplastics released during textile washing are not nanoplastics, but are actually clumps of water-insoluble oligomer molecules.

INDEX 23, the biggest trade event of the global nonwovens industry, came to a close on 21 April with a showcase of the latest breakthroughs and innovative developments across nonwovens’ applications.

Brands can now use a new technology to upcycle pre- and post-consumer textile waste into beautiful colours, and create a new collection. This technology which upcycles textile waste into vibrant colours has been brought out by the specialty chemicals Swiss manufacturer Archroma.

The Swiss textile recycling project Texcircle, which ended a month ago, showed exactly how a group of organisations can make it work together by contributing their own know-how, efforts, finances and materials. Tina Tomovic, Senior Research Associate of the project at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, which helmed the project, and Prof Brigitt Egloff tell texfash.com how the project worked, and what should be the way forward for textile recycling.

Worn Again Technologies, an innovator in chemical recycling, has secured yet another round of £27.6 million funding, the start-up’s most successful tranche since its founding, dedicated to a largescale demo plant that will leverage ground-breaking polymer processing technologies to upcycle 1,000 tonnes of textiles per year.

Swiss sports manufacturer On is leading a supply chain coalition to reshape carbon waste into running shoes  with the launch of the first ever shoe made from carbon emissions in partnership with LanzaTech, Borealis and Technip Energies.

Here’s how and why Basel-based VYN claims to be the first sneaker brand to stand for responsible materials and manufacturing, eco-innovation (designed for self-repair), care services, and at the end of life, responsible disassembly and re-use of materials and resources, thereby creating a circular system.