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Prices24 Mar 2023

Wool Market Report

A comprehensive weekly round-up and analysis of price developments at the major wool auctions around the world.

NaturalMarkets & Prices

Insight24 Mar 2023

Transforming wool into hygiene products

The need for more sustainable disposable nappies inspired Derelee Potroz-Smith to start a materials technology firm that is transforming wool into environmentally friendly materials for hygiene products.

FibresManufacturing Technology

Insight23 Mar 2023

Italian industry to prioritise digitalisation

The Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers (ACIMIT) is prioritising two things ahead of ITMA: sustainability and digitalisation.

FibresYarnsManufacturing Technology

Direct to fabric printing: Good for your business, good for the planet

According to McKinsey, 71% of fashion producers intend to nearshore operations in the coming years.

Digital PrintingApparelManufacturing Technology

Insight23 Mar 2023

Investment boost for textile-to-textile recycling

Avery Dennison, a global materials science and digital identification solutions company, has invested in Circ, a US-based chemical recycler focused on harvesting new yarns from mixed textile waste.

FabricsManufacturing Technology

Insight23 Mar 2023

Digitally preparing next gen industry leaders

Coats Digital is partnering with the Manchester Fashion Institute at the UK’s Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) in a shared vision to ensure graduates are equipped for the ongoing digitalisation of the global fashion industry.

FabricsApparelManufacturing Technology

Insight23 Mar 2023

Knitting tech provider acquires AI start-up

Smartex, a provider of automated inspection solutions for circular knitting machines, has announced its acquisition of Tuvis.

FabricsManufacturing Technology

Insight23 Mar 2023

Digitalisation should consider human centricity

Otis Robinson speaks with postgraduate researcher Rachel Cox about the industry shift towards socio-technical priorities; the bolstering of human centricity within digitalisation; and how Industry 5.0 can benefit business.

FabricsApparelManufacturing Technology

Fireside Chat23 Mar 2023

Performance Days review

In this Fireside Chat, Jessica Basey, business innovation lead, examines her findings from last week’s Performance Days with WTiN’s head of content, Madelaine Thomas.

Technical TextilesApparelEvents

Insight22 Mar 2023

Regulators plan tighter rules for carbon claims

Advertising regulators are planning to double-down on businesses that make “misleading net zero and carbon neutral claims.”

FibresYarnsSustainability

Insight22 Mar 2023

Bio-based indigo secures Series A funding

French bio-based dye and pigment producer Pili has raised US$15.8m in Series A funding to accelerate its industrial-scale production of high-performance bio-based indigo.

DyeingSustainability

Insight22 Mar 2023

New study separates cotton and polyester blends

In a new study, researchers from North Carolina (NC) State University, Raleigh, US, found they can use enzymes to separate blended cotton and polyester fabric.

NaturalSyntheticsResearch & Development

Podcast21 Mar 2023

Ep. 91: Synthetic biology, technology and ethics

This month, WTiN talks to Eric Benoist, a technology and data specialist at Natixis – a corporate investment banking company based in Paris, France – about synthetic biology, technology and the ethics intertwined with the two.

FibresYarnsManufacturing Technology

Intelligence21 Mar 2023

Traceable technologies for cellulose fibres

Embedded in products, tracers are simply more reliable than off-product solutions, such as audit certificates, or on-product approaches, such as barcodes.

CellulosicsIndustry 4.0

Insight21 Mar 2023

New partnership to globally trace recycled cotton

Textile innovation company Circular Systems has joined forces with FibreTrace to implement physical traceability technology into Texloop™ RCOT™ recycled cotton on a global scale.

RecycledSustainability

Intelligence21 Mar 2023

Colour-changing fibre easily sewn in fabrics

Ruby Penson speaks to the team at the University of Luxembourg about its colour-changing fibre that can be sewn into fabric, as seen in WTiN’s Innovation Outlook.

NaturalSyntheticsResearch & Development

Insight20 Mar 2023

New investment to grow hemp at industrial scale

An investment to grow industrial scale US-based hemp from natural fibre innovation platform FyberX is being led by Japan-based textile firm Toyoshima.

NaturalSustainability

Intelligence20 Mar 2023

Thermally conductive cellulose nanofibril filaments

Victoria Nickerson discusses thermally conductive cellulose nanofibril filaments for thermal management applications, developed by the University of Tokyo, as featured in WTiN’s Innovation Outlook.

FibresYarnsResearch & Development

Insight20 Mar 2023

New dyeing facility to expand US market share

Champion Thread Company president Matt Poovey discusses his company’s new thread and yarn dyeing facility and the impact of reshoring and rising inflation on North America’s textile industry. Joseph Link reports.

FibresYarnsTrade

Prices20 Mar 2023

Executive Market Report

Crude oil futures fell over 2% in volatile trading opening the week as the sudden shutdown of SVB Financial roiled equities markets and raised fears of a fresh financial crisis, but a recovery in Chinese demand provided support.

FibresYarnsMarkets & Prices

Intelligence20 Mar 2023

Graphene enhanced yarn for smart textiles

Victoria Nickerson assesses TPU Evolution Graphene from CoatYarn, a thermoplastic polyurethane yarn enhanced with graphene nanotubes, as featured in WTiN’s Innovation Outlook.

FibresYarnsResearch & Development

Insight20 Mar 2023

Trials for cellulosic recycling start in Europe

Non-profit textile recycling organisation Accelerating Circularity has launched cellulosic textile-to-textile trials in Europe.

CellulosicsSustainability

Insight20 Mar 2023

New 100% bio-based and recyclable castor oil yarn

Headquartered in Italy, RadiciGroup has launched Biofeel® Eleven – a 100% bio-based and recyclable yarn from castor oil.

NaturalDyeingResearch & Development

Insight20 Mar 2023

GOTS adds new environmental and social criteria

The Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) has released GOTS version 7.0, which has an expanded scope of environmental and social criteria.

FibresNonwovensSustainability

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