Over 400,000 spindles in India have joined Sourcery’s Direct-to-Grower Programme as Provisional Partners, committing to transforming trade for good and driving demand in the market throughout the cotton value chain.

The $250 million Fashion Climate Fund (FCF) has received a new shot of $4 million from HSBC to drive forward FCF’s mission of driving industry-wide convergence to modernise apparel and footwear supply chains to meet the industry’s ambition to halve carbon emissions by 2030.

Yet another €100 million fund is available for innovative startups all along the textile value and supply chain, adding to the efforts to accelerate the transformation of the fashion industry into a more sustainable one.

The world’s first lifecycle calculator has been launched. It is expected to help customers measure their environmental footprint with respect to their fashion choices.

The five-day ITMA ASIA + CITME event wrapped up on a successful note with as many as 100,000 visitors from more than 100 countries congregating at Shanghai.

Four key stakeholders from the fashion industry in Europe are collaborating to increase availability of renewable energy in Global South's Bangladesh —  a critical manufacturing hub.

US-based innovative materials company Living Ink has secured funding to the tune of $3.5 million to carry forward its mission to revolutionise the ink and pigment industry with its patented, carbon-negative pigment solution, Algae Black.

Rigid packaging waste and industrial textile strappings, formerly utilised to secure international freight containers, has been used to unveil the world’s first garment that highlights a new innovation for textile-to-textile circularity.

Without a rapid transition to “preferred” fibres and raw materials, including significantly reducing reliance on virgin fossil-based synthetics, the textile-fashion industry is unlikely to meet the 45% GHG emissions reduction target for raw material production by 2030, warns the just out 'Materials Market Report' by nonprofit Textile Exchange.

Even as the latest technological and sustainable innovations for Spring/Summer 2025 were showcased in Munich earlier this week, the next major industry event — Munich Fabric Start —is scheduled 23 January at the MOC.