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. 

Three players from the textile industry have forged a partnership to give France its first industrial plant for automated sorting and recycling of textile waste to produce recycled fibres for the spinning, nonwovens, and composites industries.

Textile Exchange’s electronic traceability system for certified materials has now been made commercially available for the Global Recycled Standard (GRS) and Recycled Content Standard (RCS).

Fashion for Good has launched ‘Re-Start’, a textile recovery alliance in India, and released a toolkit designed to revalorise textile waste in the country.

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) is enlarging its ongoing Controlled Supply Chain Scheme Pilot Project that was strategically developed to overcome the obstacles that often deter small-scale operators from pursuing its certification.

Sportswear major Puma's two year-long Re:Suede project successfully concluded by composting an experimental version of its classic Suede sneaker under certain tailor-made industrial conditions.