A peer-to-peer fashion start-up established in the UK A group of strategic and venture capital investors, including Depo Ventures, Czech Founders, Sofia Angels Ventures, New Vision 3, and four angel investors, have invested € 1 million in NOLD. Tilia Impact Ventures is leading the investment round. NOLD is on a mission to advance the circular …
NOLD raises € 1,000,000 to promote the circular fashion industry Read More »
The Fashion Pact, a project spearheaded by Helena Helmersson, CEO of H&M, and Paul Polman, formerly of Unilever, has signed a Collective Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (CVPPA) with Lightsource bp, the solar power division of British Petroleum (BP). The Fashion Pact pledges to achieve 100% renewable energy usage in member companies’ operations by 2030 to …
Forging green energy cooperation for ethical fashion is Lightsource BP and Fashion Pact Read More »
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the International Cotton Association (ICA) and TextileGenesis, a blockchain platform based in Bengaluru, has been formalized to improve digital collaboration and promote ethical trade and sustainability in the apparel and textile industry. The platform, a division of the Lectra Group, specializes in the traceability of apparel and textiles. By …
ICA and TextileGenesis collaborate on sustainable fashion traceability Read More »
To bring green denim products to the Indian textile market, the Indian textile maker Arvind has partnered with the Swedish textile recycling business Renewcell’s Circulose Supplier Network. The goal of this alliance is to advance sustainability and circularity in the apparel sector. Arvind claims that Circulose denim represents a big step towards the creation of …
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Through the promotion and facilitation of ethical purchasing practices and, more broadly, the effective implementation of the human rights due diligence (HRDD) framework, the Fair Wear Foundation and the Sustainable Terms of Trade Initiative (STTI), based in the Netherlands, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) pledging to further strengthen their collaboration on advancing systemic …
Dutch STTI and Fair Wear sign an agreement to promote sustainable textile production Read More »
Performance Days will take place from October 4–6, 2023, in Munich, Germany. The Italian manufacturer of warp knits, Cifra, will display prototypes of sportswear constructed from novel yarn combinations. The basis on which the design of the new generation of sporting clothes by Cifra is formed is sustainability in terms of materials and production process, …
Performance Days will feature sustainable apparel from Italy’s Cifra Read More »
For its textile Lenzing Ecovero and nonwoven Veocel brands in Asia-Pacific, Lenzing Group, a market leader in the manufacturing of wood-based specialty fibers, has announced plans to enhance the production of its high-quality responsible viscose fibers. The viscose fibers, which are manufactured at Lenzing’s Purwakarta plant (PT South Pacific Viscose) in Indonesia and are EU …
Production of eco-friendly viscose is increased at a Lenzing facility in Indonesia Read More »
By holding a multi-stakeholder event in Seville, Better Cotton, the largest cotton sustainability program in the world, has begun a strategic collaboration in Spain. Better Cotton said in a press release that the meeting included participating farmers, ginners, and other industry representatives in addition to the Inter-professional Cotton Association (Espalgodon) and the Regional Government of …
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Two sustainable cotton thread products have been released by the world’s largest thread manufacturer, American & Efird (A&E), and each has been awarded a Gold Level Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified Material Health Certificate. These new products add to an already impressive sustainable thread portfolio and enable greater sustainability and circularity within the textile industry …
For new threads, American & Efird receives gold-level C2C certification Read More »
American Eagle Outfitters (AEO), a US-based retailer, recently released its second environmental (Planet), social (People), and governance (Practices) report outlining the progress made through the company’s Building a Better World strategy. According to the report, AEO recycled 9 million gallons of water at laundries and reduced water use per pair of jeans produced by 38% …