Textile News

REPREVE Champions Awards Honor Circular Textile Innovation and Sustainability With Major Industry Impact

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REPREVE Champions Awards Honor Circular Textile Innovation and Sustainability With Major Industry Impact

Forty-six billion plastic bottles recycled. One billion T-shirts’ worth of textile and yarn waste converted into high-quality fibre. When a recognition programme reaches those cumulative figures — confirmed by UNIFI® alongside its brand partners — it stops functioning as a marketing exercise and starts operating as measurable evidence that recycled material infrastructure is scaling. UNIFI®, … Read more

Leading Brands Back unspun’s Automated U.S. Apparel Manufacturing With Millions in New Funding

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Leading Brands Back unspun's Automated U.S. Apparel Manufacturing With Millions in New Funding

Automated production that converts yarn directly into a semi-finished garment in minutes — compressing dozens of discrete cut-and-sew steps into a single programmable cycle — is no longer confined to a pilot facility. unspun is moving its AI-enabled 3D weaving technology toward commercial deployment inside the United States, and it has retail-level commitments to back … Read more

ITMF Survey Reveals Geopolitics Has Now Overtaken All Other Major Global Textile Industry Concerns

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ITMF Survey Reveals Geopolitics Has Now Overtaken All Other Major Global Textile Industry Concerns

When the ITMF Global Textile Industry Survey shifts its top-ranked concern from weak demand to geopolitics, that is not a sentiment footnote — it is a signal that the operating environment for mills and brands has changed category. The 37th edition makes that shift explicit, and the data behind it is specific enough to matter … Read more

European Nonwovens Production Holds Firm Despite Significant Market Pressure Saving Manufacturers Millions in 2026

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European Nonwovens Production Holds Firm Despite Significant Market Pressure Saving Manufacturers Millions in 2026

A 2.2% production decline across Greater Europe sounds like a contraction story at first glance. But when the sector moves nearly 2.9 million tonnes of nonwovens in a single year — against weakening demand, intensifying import competition, and a contracting hygiene segment — that number requires more than a headline read. EDANA, the international association … Read more