Retold Recycling awarded $300,000

March 3, 2023  |  Industry News

 Retold Recycling – a convenient and sustainable textile recycling start-up – has received a $300,000 deal in exchange for a 25% stake in their company from famed Shark, Mark Cuban. Retold Recycling empowers consumers by making it easy and convenient to responsib…
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Manufacturing PMI at 47.7%

March 2, 2023  |  Industry News, News

Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in February for the fourth consecutive month following a 28-month period of growth, say the nation’s supply executives in the latest Manufacturing ISM® Report On Business®. The report was issued today by Timothy R…
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Archroma acquires Huntsman Textile Effects

March 1, 2023  |  Company News, News

Archroma announced the closing of the acquisition of the Textile Effects business from Huntsman Corporation. When the Huntsman Textile Effects acquisition was first announced in August 2022, Archroma Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Heike van de Kerkhof called the transaction a “merger of equal…
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Silkworm-inspired nanofiber production

March 1, 2023  |  Swatches

Inspired by the silkworm, scientists at China’s Sichuan University have developed a faster and simpler method of producing nanofibers. According to the researchers, existing nanofiber production methods are either complicated, slow or produce substandard fibers. But the silkworm produces a high-qu…
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AI-designed garments could optimize workflow

March 1, 2023  |  Swatches

Clothing design initiative NEWFACET offers an innovative approach to a conceptual clothing campaign. The designer makes use of an artificial intelligence (AI) program to explore ways that could optimize workflow and creative processes in visualizing unique concepts and cuts. The result is a series o…
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Hexoskin plans advances in health monitoring 

March 1, 2023  |  Swatches

Hexoskin has made it its mission to address people’s needs as opposed to being led by technology, the company says, using a measured approach to innovation. It provides medical applications for patient monitoring, such as this smart vest. With its Connected Health Platform, researchers and health …
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Photovoltaic e-textile for wearables 

March 1, 2023  |  Swatches

Researchers at the U.K.’s Nottingham Trent University (NTU) have developed an e-textile that’s embedded with 1,200 tiny photovoltaic cells. Led by Dr. Theodore Hughes-Riley, associate professor of electronic textiles at the Nottingham School of Art & Design, the experimental project is intro…
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Biobased allergen control technology launched

March 1, 2023  |  Swatches

Belgian producer Devan Chemicals has announced its biobased and readily biodegradable allergen control technology, Purissimo® NTL. Allergies have an impact on the quality of life and are associated with some medical conditions. World Bio Market Insights reports that Purissimo NTL is designed to cle…
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Textile additive reduces car odors

March 1, 2023  |  Swatches

Cambridge, England-based Aqdot says there is a lot of interest from major automotive fabric suppliers over its AqFresh additive technology. This technology significantly reduces volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are known to be detrimental to health, in automotive interior materials.
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World’s first T-shirt dyed using black algae

March 1, 2023  |  Swatches

Carbon black, a pigment derived from petroleum, is commonly used to create black for everything from clothing and phones to cars and ink. It comes from tracts of land called tar sands, that are stripped of all life and vegetation to extract the heavy petroleum.
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