In a significant export barrier for US cotton to Bangladesh, as well as "saving" the country’s mills time and money, Bangladesh has decided to relax its nearly-five-decade-long fumigation requirement on US cotton imports.

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will be using the $4.2 million that California-based retailer Fashion Nova paid as penalty to provide refunds to customers.

Euratex, the voice of the European textile and clothing industry, has urged on the need to stabilise inflation, restore consumer confidence and ensure a level playing field for this industry.

A Robotics Living Lab (RoLL) being developed by Manchester Fashion Institute at Manchester Metropolitan University, promises new research into highly responsive sustainable approaches for UK garment manufacturers.

Tokyo-based fastening manufacturer YKK has launched the first ever 3D configurator that would help improve the process of trim design by using technology from VNTANA, a first-of-its-kind 3D infrastructure platform.

The Sustainable Apparel Coalition has rebranded its beleaguered sustainability intelligence platform Higg as Worldly and strengthened it further by tying up with certification company SGS to support industry’s need for validated data, and also come up with an industry-first solution to capture real-time data from factories across the supply chain.

In a significant development, Australian biotechnology company Nanollose has filed a patent for its technology that produces microbial cellulose from organic food and beverage waste.

Waste entrepreneurs, waste workers in India’s Silicon Valley have been brought under the aegis of the H&M Foundation to enable textile waste collection, sorting, and selling to generate revenue for waste pickers, as also create a circular B2B textile service model, starting with the hotel industry.

Researchers from the University of Portsmouth under the aegis of the Fair Trade Advocacy Office have come out with a report that reviews unfair trading practices (UTPs) in textile supply chains, along with a case study analysis of emerging best practices.

The Finnish University of Jyväskylä is piloting a method, the first of its kind, for corporations to calculate their biodiversity footprint, based on scientific databases and a company’s consumption accounts.