The UK and India have signed a landmark trade agreement intended to increase the volume and depth of trade between the two countries. The London-headquartered UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) ...

Every year, industrialised nations lose approximately 3% of GDP due to issues associated with material corrosion and degradation. Damage to concrete structures and infrastructure in particular – ...

Fitesa, one of the world’s largest nonwovens manufacturers, is introducing a new range of spunbonded fabrics based on Braskem’s I’m green bio-based high-density polyethylene (HDPE). The benefits of ...

With the acquisition of United-Southern Waste (USW) in January this year, Dallas-headquartered RTCM USA has become the largest textile recycler in North Texas. Innovation in Textiles spoke to CEO ...

Technical textiles manufacturer Scott and Fyfe has announced strong results despite ongoing geopolitical conflicts and rising costs. The employee-owned company based in Tayport, Scotland, started out ...

The Lycra Company received a very positive response to its new bio-derived Lycra EcoMade fibre at last week’s Kingpins Amsterdam denim exhibition. The first commercially launched pair of denims to ...

Andritz will deliver three complete neXline aXcess crosslapped spunlace lines for the production of nonwovens to China’s Alear Silk Road New Materials. This investment represents an important step in ...

DePoly, the Zurich-headquartered developer of a new PET-to-raw-material technology, has secured $23 million to finance an upcoming 500-tons-per-year showcase plant in Monthey, Switzerland, this summer ...

Houston, Texas headquarterd engineering company KBR is partnering with Canberra, Australia-based Samsara Eco to design and build a first-of-its-kind plastics and textiles enzymatic recycling plant, ...

BIG Yarns of the Beaulieu International Group based in Waregem, Belgium, is to invest €25 million in new spinning technology at its plant in Comines, France. The investment includes new one-step BCF ...

Ahead of this week’s IDEA nonwovens show in Miami (April 29 th to May 1 st), the boards of industry associations EDANA and INDA, based in Brussels, Belgium and Cary, North Carolina, respectively, have ...