All Trade & Sourcing articles – Page 12
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Tearfil chooses DuPont Sorona for performance staple yarns
Tearfil, the Portuguese specialist in textile yarns, will use Sorona fibers to develop sustainable and high-performing staple yarns for the apparel industry. Sorona is made up of 37 percent renewable plant-based ingredients. Compared with Nylon 6, Sorona uses 30 percent less energy, and releases 63 percent less greenhouse gas, according ...
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ArticleArc’teryx aims for Fair Trade certification
With a goal of having 80 percent of its products certified by Fair Trade USA by 2025, Arc’teryx has announced plans to convert three production facilities in Vietnam to Fair Trade CertifiedTM in the coming year. The move comes as part of the company’s response to the global garment workers’ ...
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ArticleU.K. reaches trade deal with Vietnam, agreement with EU unlikely
The U.K. has finalized a free trade agreement with Vietnam, which is scheduled to become effective from Jan. 1. It is the third trade agreement reached with an Asian country, after those with Singapore and Japan. The U.K. has also reached a preliminary trade agreement with Canada. The U.K. is ...
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News briefsMaterial Exchange closes €5m funding round to accelerate growth
Material Exchange, the Swedish online platform for the procurement of materials, raised €5 million in a funding round as it seeks to accelerate its growth plans after the “business exploded” during the Covid-19 pandemic. “The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the digitalization of the industry by at least five years,” said ...
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Hybrid fabrics are growing fast
The hybrid fabrics market is expected to reach $418 million by 2027, representing a 9 percent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) growth from 2020 to 2027, according to a new study by Allied Market Research. Growth is primarily driven by the increasing success of lightweight fabrics, a surge in applications ...
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VF partner factory installs solar panels
QuangViet, a factory in Vietnam that handles production for VF Corp.’s brand The North Face, finished installing 3MWp solar panels in July. The installation of further panels is planned for this autumn. The panels manage to convert about 90 percent of the sunlight they capture into electricity. The factory expects ...
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Altexa launches HDry in North America
Matteo and Luca Morlacchi, the Italian brothers who invented the OutDry technology, which Columbia Sportswear acquired 10 years ago, presented a new waterproof and breathable membrane called HDry® at Ispo Munich 2020 with their company Altexa srl. Now, Altexa and GHS Holdings announced the launch of the HDry® brand in ...
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Helly Hansen overhauls its IT
Helly Hansen is overhauling its computer system to smooth operations, cut costs and come into compliance with regulations in various countries. The Norwegian sports apparel and gear producer is stringing together the Infor M3 enterprise resource platform (ERP), the Salesforce customer resource management (CRM) platform, the Front Systems point-of-sale system, ...
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NGOs team up as Fashion Conveners
Fashion Conveners is the name of a new global coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that have teamed up to “accelerate collective action through connected partnership for all actors within the apparel and accessories value chain, building greater social, economic and environmental prosperity.” The partner organizations include: Apparel Impact Institute (Aii), ...
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News briefsLenzing sends goods worth €1.8 million by train from Vienna to China
A train with goods exclusively “Made in Austria” left Vienna toward China on Aug. 20. The train loaded with Lenzing fibers and provided by Nunner Logistics was the first train in the history of Austria carrying products 100 percent produced in Austria directly to China. In strict compliance with the ...
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News briefsLanxess sells organic leather chemicals business, launches bio-based Adiprene Green
The German specialty chemicals company Lanxess is selling its organic leather chemicals business to TFL Ledertechnik. The purchase price is made up from a fixed component of €80 million and a performance-related component of up to €115 million. In addition, TFL will assume certain liabilities associated with the business. Lanxess ...
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Checkerspot closes $36 million funding round
The U.S. company Checkerspot has closed a Series B financing round of $36 million, which will be primarily used for commercial development and the expansion of the company’s product and innovation platform. The financing was led by Viking Global Investors with participation from other existing investors including Builders VC and ...
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Scottish scientists develop new sustainable nylon production method
Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have developed a sustainable way of manufacturing adipic acid, a key component of nylon. The scientists modified the genetic code of the common bacteria E. coli in the laboratory. The modified cells were grown in liquid solutions containing guaiacol, a naturally-occurring chemical and the ...
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ArticleITK and Bosch Research set up competence center for intelligent textiles
ITK Engineering, a German technology company operating internationally with customers mainly in the automotive and aerospace industries and a 100-percent subsidiary of the Robert Bosch GmbH since 2017, joined forces with Bosch Research to set up the Smart Textile Competence Center in the German town of in Rülzheim to investigate ...
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Milliken increases U.S. inventory of reusable medical fabrics for PPE
Milliken & Company, the owner of Polartec, reported that it has invested significant resources to increase the production of its Milliken Perimeter™ advanced medical fabrics in the United States. Since March, the company has distributed more than 10 million yards of reusable medical fabrics in response to the global shortage ...
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ArticleState Of Trade: The Outdoor industry has grown in 2019
With its State of Trade market research project, the European Outdoor Group (EOG) has been delivering results on industry-wide sales for ten years. Since its launch in 2010, State of Trade has grown into the most comprehensive and robust market research project for the European outdoor sector. The latest results ...
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News briefsPartnership with Fiberpartner opens new markets for PrimaLoft® Bio™
PrimaLoft has announced a partnership with Fiberpartner, a global provider of staple fibers, industrial yarns and plastics. The licensing agreement enables Fiberpartner to use the PrimaLoft® Bio™ technology in a variety of new industries. PrimaLoft® Bio™ consists of 100 percent recycled fibers that biodegrade when exposed to environmental conditions such ...
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Munich Fabric Start 2020 canceled, Fabric Days instead
Only two weeks ago, the sourcing fairs Munich Fabric Start and Bluezone announced that the event planned for early September (Sept. 1-3) would take place in Munich despite corona-related restrictions - with a newly developed hygiene concept and in a larger location in Munich-Riem. Now, however, both trade fairs had ...
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Lenzing pays no dividend for 2019, elects Harris-Jensbach to the board
During Lenzing’s annual general meeting (AGM), which was held via livestream due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the decision was made not to distribute a dividend for the 2019 financial year (compared to €5 per share in the previous year). The Austrian fiber producer’s AGM also adopted a resolution discharging the ...
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New insulation options from Thermore
Thermore has expanded its line of blow-in Ecodown fibers, offering five different options in terms of weights and thicknesses with its heat-regulating technology. That includes a new Ecodown Fibers Light version, which provides a soft, ultra-light and packable insulation that is said to be 20 percent warmer than comparable products. ...
