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Footwear Innovation / New Model

29 January 2024

The model represents a runner as a centre of mass, with a hip that can rotate and a leg that can stretch. The leg is connected to a box-like shoe, with springiness and shock absorption that can be tuned, both vertically and horizontally.

New Model Developed at MIT Predicts How Shoe Properties Affect a Runner’s Performance

Consumers could one day get to pick sneakers that fit their personal running style if research on a new model developed at MIT reaches commercial scale.

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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

M&S Attack / The Ramifications Analysis

Modern retailers must accept that transformation isn't just customer-facing. It must go down to the root—network segmentation, zero-trust architecture, robust identity access management. Otherwise, all the retail innovation in the world is just expensive window dressing.

M&S Cyberattack Must Be Seen as Wake-Up Call for Somnolent Global Retailers

Special Correspondent

7 May 2025

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Cotton Crisis / Pakistan Status Analysis

The Pakistan Cotton Ginners Association (PCGA) and All-Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) have time and again warned that the current tax structure makes domestic cotton unviable, forcing mills to rely increasingly on cheaper imported alternatives. Industry insiders fear that during the crop year 2025–26, cotton ginning and textile sectors may operate at less than 50% of their total production capacity.

Pakistan's Cotton Sector Faces Imminent Collapse as Government Scrambles for Solutions

Special Correspondent

5 June 2025

Deforestation / Viscose Angle Report

A lone rainforest tree stump stands in a forestry concession held by PT Industrial Forest Plantation — logged to make way for a pulpwood monoculture plantation.

The Green Inferno: The Destructive Viscose Empire Behind Indonesia's Deforestation

Special Correspondent

4 June 2025

Young India Fashion Survey 2025