Updates

Textile Exchange has come up with the Regenerative Agriculture Outcome Framework, perhaps the first ever open-source, documented framework that lays out key indicators that make for a regenerative system, encouraging collaboration by including expectations for both brands and growers.

The World Fashion Convention to be held 23–25 October under the auspices of the  International Apparel Federation (IAF) and the Sewn Products Equipment & Suppliers of the Americas (SPESA), will focus on global challenges and perspectives facing the industry.

A new report that examines the impact of Brexit and COVID-19 on the fashion, textile and technology ecosystem in the UK, offers five key recommendations to support future growth.

An analysis of price levels for consumer goods and services in the European Union (EU) shows Switzerland, Iceland and Norway lead the table in terms of price levels indices for household final consumption. The data has been released by Eurostat.

Digital labelling is the need of the hour and a global coalition of stakeholders in the textile-fashion-footwear-accessories sector has called for supranational, national and local authorities to update outdated, inflexible, and complex labelling requirements to empower consumers with accessible information through greener e-labelling.

A new report that examines the impact of Brexit and COVID-19 on the fashion, textile and technology ecosystem in the UK, offers five key recommendations to support future growth.

The just released Australian Cotton Sustainability Update 2022 has revealed some critical findings and suggests the way ahead on how it can cotton on to better sustainable ways and profitability with people and planet at centrestage.

Sustainable forest management has become increasingly critical as the role of man-made cellulosic fibres (MMCFs) gains currency as preferred materials that play a vital role in the textile-fashion industry's efforts to embrace environmentally responsible and socially accountable approaches. A whitepaper by PEFC or the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification equips brands and retailers on how to advance the traceability of MMCF materials.

Producers would soon be held responsible for the full lifecycle of textile products, according to the new proposals to introduce mandatory and harmonised Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes for textiles in all EU Member States.

Claiming a new era of sustainable PFAS and PFC-free waterproof and air-permeable materials, Nibertex, a nanofibre technology specialist, seeks to redefine performance in the technical textile market.