Ecotextile News Bulletin 25.04.2024

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Thursday, 25th April 2024

Better Cotton Brazil probe 'flawed' - NGO LONDON - The Earthsight NGO has branded Better Cotton's investigation into allegations linking its licensed farms with illegal deforestation in Brazil as "so flawed to be almost worthless". Earthsight recently released a report focused on two of Brazil's biggest cotton producers - Horita Group... Read More Lenzing says fire disruption was 'minimal' AMSTERDAM – Speaking to Ecotextile News today at the on-going Kingpins denim exhibition in the Netherlands, Lenzing CEO Stephan Sielaff said that last week’s fire at its HQ facility in Austria won’t... Read More ‘Microfactory’ firm raises €3 million in funding COPENHAGEN - Danish tech start-up Rodinia Generation, which claims to have developed an automated manufacturing method that drastically reduces carbon emissions and water usage in garment production,... Read More Worker's rights campaign groups part ways AMSTERDAM - Two of the leading organisations dedicated to improving the pay and conditions of garment workers in global supply chains are to go their separate ways after a quarter of a century. The... Read More Bio-derived LYCRA fibre made with QIRA SPONSORED CONTENT - In a ground-breaking collaboration, the LYCRA Company has teamed up with Qore, a joint venture between Cargill, an expert in agricultural fermentation technologies, and HELM, a German... Read More   Bangladesh considers VAT exception for recycled fibres DHAKA - The Bangladesh government is said to be considering a tax exemption for domestically-produced recycled fibre in a bid to promote the sector and reduce the textile industry’s dependence on imports of cotton. Under the current rules, textile traders pay 7.5% valued‑added tax (VAT)... Read More Fresh funding for ‘textiles from plant waste’ CALIFORNIA - An academic researcher at the University of California, Riverside, has received a $1.45 million federal grant to advance the production of textiles from plant waste. The process, known as co-solvent enhanced lignocellulosic fractionation (CELF), is described as a biomass pre-treatment... Read More APR/MAY 2024 ISSUE Renewcell - do retailers and brands value innovation? Hitting the wrong target?  Are fashion brands the best customers for textile innovators Chile - what's really happening in the Atacama Desert Under pressure - dyeing with CO2 makes the next step Transparency - how best to uncover opaque supply chains AND MORE!  Hit the button below to get your copy Subscribe

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