International Textile Manufacturers Federation

The fashion industry’s demand for distressed denim often clashes with reliance on potassium permanganate, heavy bleaching, and water-intensive laundering. Pressure to modernise these approaches keeps growing. Providing momentum is Archroma, which developed the Denim Halo system to engineer predictable surface dyeing upstream, enabling strong contrasts with markedly reduced resource use and operational complexity.

Perspectives are varied, and it is not an open-and-shut case against US Prez Donald Trump as his political opponents would have us believe. The tariff calculations could be questionable and the unilateral announcement should be decried, but what’s amply clear is this: trade will never be the same again.

The Standard Convergence Initiative of IAF and ITMF has issued a manifesto calling for reducing audit fatigue, and urged industry stakeholders to accept/integrate the Social & Labor Convergence Program’s Converged Assessment Framework (CAF).

Urging larger number of brands and retailers to hasten their switch to converged schemes, the Standard Convergence Initiative (SCI) has said that a lot more can be done to further reduce the burden on suppliers and manufacturers.

From the next generation of performance membranes to meaningful digitalisation for the supply chain, a total of seven young innovative enterprises bagged the first ever ITMF Start-up Awards at the recently concluded ITMF Annual Conference 2022 held in Davos, Switzerland.

A total of 18 enterprises have been given the first ever ITMF Awards at the recently concluded ITMF Annual Conference, held at Davos in Switzerland. texfash.com reports.

Plans are on to have third party and brand/ retailer proprietary standards align across four key areas to help combat growing audit fatigue in the textile and footwear sector.