Updates

The PVH Foundation is joining the $250 million Fashion Climate Fund as a lead funder with a $10 million contribution. This advances the Fund’s aim to drive industry-wide convergence to modernise the fashion industry supply chain and meet the industry’s ambition to halve carbon emissions by 2030.

Sri Lanka's apparel industry has posted its strongest ever export earnings through the first eight months of a year at the end of August 2022, the Sri Lankan Apparel Exporters Association (SLAEA) has announced.

Hazardous chemicals known as PFAS (per and polyfluoroalkyl substances) have been found in 65% of samples of children's textiles in North America. Since an estimated 20% of public schools in the US require students to wear uniforms, this could mean that millions of children could be at risk of exposure to the toxic compounds.

The productivity of Bangladesh's labour-intensive sectors like garment manufacturing are going to be adversely affected by high temperatures and humidity, leaving many in Dhaka exposed to dangerous working conditions, a new report has underscored.

The month-long negotiations over the wages of garment workers in Cambodia came to an end finally on Wednesday with the wages being increased by a paltry $6. texfash.com reports.

The Green Machine of the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) has won an ITMF Award for Sustainability and Innovation. Through separation of the blended textile, Green Machine recovers PET fibre for re-spinning, even as it converts cotton fibre into cellulosic powder for a number of uses.

The US House introduction of the Credit Card Competition Act to check skyrocketing swipe fees has been welcomed by industry associations. The bill addresses “swipe” fees averaging over 2% of the transaction that banks and card networks charge merchants to process credit card transactions.

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.

The next round of Global Change Award (GCA) that opens 20 October for 2023, the GCA is looking for five winning teams who will share a grant of €1 million for solutions that steer the textile-fashion industry towards circularity, work out innovative solutions enabling growth within planetary boundaries. and something pathbreaking not "even thought about yet." texfash.com brings the details.

With the annual inflation rate in the United States jumping to 8.3% in August, almost 83% consumers have been impacted by shortages in the supply chain, and as many as 63% consumers have either been buying less clothes or have deferred purchases altogether.