Researchers have developed a panel with textile waste that improves both the thermal and acoustic conditions of buildings and reduces the energy impact associated to the production of construction ...

Today, one of the largest international problems is textile waste. The United States Environmental Protection Agency has estimated that each year over 15 million tons of textile waste ends up in ...

European technology provider says its Intarema FibrePro:IV is for recycling applications in the PET fiber textiles sector. Erema says recycled-content PET (rPET) produced by its new system “can be ...

Patrik Lundström is pleased with his new pair of Levi’s 501s. “The touch and feel is exactly the same as your cotton jeans,” he says. Lundström is CEO of Renewcell, a Swedish start-up that has created ...

Algaeing, a startup company initiated in 2016, has used algae as a novel source to produce fibers and dyes for the textile industry. This method of textile production provides a greener solution and ...

A first generation of nano-enhanced textiles benefitted from nano finishing: Coating the surface of textiles and clothing with nanoparticles is an approach to the production of highly active surfaces ...

Infinna fiber creation in wet spinning process at Espoo pilot. Just weeks after fashion’s leading textile-to-textile recycling company went bankrupt, its peer, Infinited Fiber Company (IFC), closed a ...

Nordic Bioproducts Group, a Finnish startup, has created a new plant-based textile fiber. The company is a spinoff from Aalto University in Finland, which created a patented technology called ...