It ain't fashion, if it ain't sustainable

Viscose

Hot Button Report / 2024 Edition

4 December 2024

3 minutes

The Hot Button Report has been the primary fibre sourcing analysis tool for the fashion sector since 2016, providing crucial data for 550+ brands, retailers, and designers to inform and support decision-making in their forest-based fabric supply chains.

MMCF Producers Showing Increased Level of Commitment on Low-Carbon NextGen Alternatives

For the first time ever Canopy's Hot Button Report has awarded the coveted 'green shirt' status to three global producers—India-based Aditya Birla, Austria-based Lenzing, and China-based Tangshan Sanyou.

Staff Writer

Textile Recycling / Viscose Production

8 March 2024

The new technique developed at Lund University could soon be a commercial proposition that instead produces viscose from recycled textiles—and therefore saves on valuable forest resources.

Researchers Find Way to Create Viscose, Not from Biomass, But Used Cotton Textiles

A team of researcher's at Lund University in Sweden have devised a technique whereby viscose can be created from used cotton textiles. This new process can save a lot of forest resources, and is also rather inexpensive.

Staff Writer

Fibre Innovation / Kelheim Fibres

26 June 2023

8 minutes

Kelheim Fibres sees two paths to make hygiene products more sustainable. First, by producing conventional single-use products using biobased materials instead of synthetics, thus making them biodegradable. Second, by replacing single-use products with reusable alternatives, ideally also based on biodegradable materials.

We All Need to Provide Facts and Figures that Underpin LCA and Recycling Processes

A leading manufacturer of specialty viscose fibres, Kelheim Fibres GmbH, has a portfolio of functional biodegradable viscose fibres for unique products. Marina Crnoja-Cosic, Director – New Business Development (Marketing & Communication) talks to texfash.com about the ongoing innovation, the route taken on sustainability and how the market for viscose is shaping up.

Richa Bansal

Interview

Exclusive

Deforestation / Viscose

2 June 2023

4 minutes

Excavators beside a canal cutting through recently deforested peatland inside a PT. Riau Andalan Pulp & Paper (PT RAPP) pulpwood concession on Pulau Pedang, Bengkalis Regency, Riau Province. PT RAPP is a subsidiary of APRIL, the pulp & paper division of the RGE Group.

Deforestation Scam: Viscose Producer's Denials Insufficient to Rebut Evidence, Say 5 Groups

Even as Indonesia’s Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE) with its four subsidiaries flatly denies all allegations made in the recently released Pulping Borneo report, the publishers of the investigative study have dismissed the denials as “insufficient.” A texfash.com report.

Special Correspondent

Report

Deforestation / Viscose

24 May 2023

4 minutes

Aerial HTI PT Industrial Forest Plantation (IFP, Kabupaten Kapuas, Kalimantan Tengah. Oktober, 2022 - The findings of the Greenpeace report should caution RGE’s customers, financiers, certification bodies, as well as local communities, civil society, consumers of RGE products, and the broader public about its controversial wood suppliers and risky pulp mill expansion plans.

World's Largest Viscose Producers Royal Golden Eagle / Sateri Ravaging Indonesia's Endangered Rainforests

In the eye of a greenwashing storm is one of the world’s largest pulp and paper companies, Indonesia’s Royal Golden Eagle Group (RGE) and its subsidiaries, for deforesting thousands of hectares from across its supply chain, a Greenpeace investigation has revealed.