BASF, the world’s largest chemicals group, will phase out PFAS by 2028 as it joins a raft of major companies turning their back on controversial ‘forever chemicals’, reports Chemsec, the Gothenburg, ...

A new report from Cientifica Research, Smart Textiles and Wearables: Markets, Applications and Technologies examines the markets for textile based wearable technologies, the companies producing them ...

Swiss high-tech textiles developer Schoeller technologies has launched a new fabric range called ‘energear’ which uses Far Infrared Rays to ensure that energy radiated by the body is recovered to ...

This 2024 update contains analysis and insight into the USA’s top ten foreign suppliers of textiles and clothing in 2023, along with more specific information on US imports of cotton dresses, cotton ...

Tokyo-headquartered Toray Industries is working with Yoshida to jointly create materials for Tanker bags employing Ecodear N510, a 100% plant-based nylon fibre. Yoshida’s Porter brand makes and sells ...

Brands and retailers are under immense pressure to provide textile and apparel products which are environmentally sustainable. At the same time, there is an urgent need to reduce the amount of waste ...

Sportswear and sports shoe giant Nike Inc. has announced the launch of a revolutionary new running shoe which uses state-of-the-art integral knitting techniques to create a one piece upper which is ...

Canberra-headquartered Australian biotech innovator Samsara Eco has joined the new T2T Alliance which brings together textile recyclers already including Circ, Circulose, Re&Up and Syre to support ...

Biotechnology company LanzaTech, based in Stokie, Illinois, USA, has partnered with lululemon athletica, an athletic apparel company headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, to create the world’s first ...

Canatu, based in Vantaa, Finland, has signed an agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop an optical blocking filter using unique carbon nanotubes (CNTs) as a support structure. The ...

Just a short time after UK start up, MMT Textiles Ltd announced here on www.innovationintextiles.com that it had invented and patented a method of constructing bio-responsive fibres and yarns so that ...

Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good is launching the Renewable Carbon Textiles Project, bringing together a powerful consortium to accelerate the development of polyhydroxyalkanoates or PHA polymer ...