The textile industry is at a critical point, facing environmental challenges and a pressing need for sustainability. Traditional practices have led to significant ecological footprints, including ...

Most of the discussion in sustainable textiles has centered around the fibers–manufacturers making a switch to organic cotton, or creating fabrics from natural, easily-renewable materials like bamboo ...

A combined team of chemical and biomolecular engineers from the University of Delaware, and the Center for Plastics Innovation, both in the U.S., has developed a way to chemically separate fibers in ...

Bolstering the Biden Administration’s efforts to put American manufacturing back on the map, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) has announced the launch of a Section 301 duty exclusion process for ...

The trio completed a semi-industrial trial of their "Rewind" PET process, demonstrating that polyester textile-to-textile recycling is ready to scale.

Experts discussed the challenges at the Textiles Recycling Expo in Charlotte, N.C.

With the growing push to improve circularity in the fashion and textile industries, the ability to scale textile recycling operations to create new fibers on a larger scale has become a more immediate ...

Walk into a modern semiconductor factory and you’ll see full end-to-end automated processes. Visit an automotive plant and you’ll watch lines weld and paint without a human touch. But walk into a ...

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