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Related Keywords: entrepreneur, fabrics, fashion, innvovation, luxury, R Collective, sustainability, Textile, upcycling

The R Collective is a clothing brand using some of the industry’s highest quality materials, but with a difference: it rescues excess materials from world-leading luxury designers, and upcycles them to create something entirely new.

British entrepreneur Christina Dean founded the company in 2017, inspired by a charity she founded in 2007 called Redress, which works to reduce fashion waste and promote a circular fashion industry.

Related Keywords: apparel, China, clothing, export, import, manufacturing, production, tariff, trade, United States, war

By now you may have heard that increasing tariffs on imports from China may impact the cost of everything from sneakers to patio furniture by up to 25%.

But in many categories, it’s still unclear how that increased cost could impact the end consumer: that’s you, who’s trying to buy a shoe or a lawn chair.

Direct-to-consumer apparel company Everlane showed the New York Times how much prices for its popular products could change once new tariffs are included in production costs.

Related Keywords: bales, cotton, crop, fiber, heavy rainfall, temperature, Texas, Textile

This year’s rain is creating problems for many cotton producers in the Texas Panhandle. The weather this year has brought more rain and when there’s too much rain in consecutive days it can damage cotton crops.

“Everything that can go wrong with too much rain has gone wrong,” said Jerrell Key, General Manager of Adobe Walls Gin LP.

Related Keywords: Airtastic, Dermizax, nylon, Perfluorooctanoic acid, PFOA, technology, Textile

Toray Industries has created a new nylon textile using the textile manufacturer’s NanoDesign technology. Despite using a DWR treatment (with lower environmental cost), the latest innovation from the giant delivers high water repellency.

How? The textile’s structure has microscopic slits running lengthwise on the yarn. Water-repelling treatments fill these slits below the outside diameter of the yarn, also making the treatment more abrasion-resistant.

Related Keywords: Colorjet, digital textile printer, IDC, ITMA 2019, printing, Textile, Textile Industry

Building up on the success of the Vastrajet®- 8824, ColorJet India Ltd, the biggest Indian manufacturer of digital printers is launching Vastrajet®- 8164, a digital textile printer with 16 heads at ITMA Barcelona 2019 in Hall-3, Stall B-102.

The advanced, high speed direct to fabric printer Vastrajet®- 8164 has the ability to become a commercial winner by providing users with outstanding performance, increased productivity, superior printing accuracy with minimal maintenance needs.

Viscose staple fiber (VSF) offers in the Asian markets were lowered again in the last week of May 2019 due to lackluster downstream buying interest amid cautious mentality as a whole. Viscose filament yarn prices were range-bound despite the fall in raw material cost. The market sentiment doesn't seem to improve much and it is likely that it will remain bearish in the coming weeks as well.

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Asian polyester intermediates, PTA and MEG, prices were pulled down in last week of May 2019 due to bearish downstream sentiment. Feedstock polyester prices were also not supportive and declined during the week, despite buoyant energy prices. PET chip prices plunged amid weak demand.

Nylon or polyamide chip prices continued the downtrend amid sharp falls in CPL markets during the week. Nylon filament yarn prices also edged down on subdued trading.

Courtesy: Weekly PriceWatch Report

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Related Keywords: ban, clothes, Earth, eco-friendly, environment, fahion, France, Textiles, unsold

France is to pass legislation banning supermarkets and producers from destroying unsold non-food items in a “world first”, according to Edouard Philippe, the prime minister.

France has already enacted a law banning supermarkets from destroying unsold food, and obliging supermarkets to hand it to charity, but the government wishes to extend the ban to clothing, electronics or plastics, and other products.

Related Keywords: fabrics, Forandring, IKEA, Musselblomma, NextWave, Textile, TreetoTextile, yarn

Ikea pursuing alternative fibers in product development.

Democratic Design Days event focuses on innovative home furnishings.

Ikea is working on home textiles made from rice straw and ocean plastic.

Related Keywords: american consumer, cotton, Cotton Egypt Association, cotton goods, Egypt, fibers, retail, supply chain

COTTON Egypt Association, the organisation behind Egyptian Cotton™, has launched a further initiative to actively root out non-genuine goods from the supply chain.

The organization has begun naming and shaming manufacturers who fail their rigorous accreditation scheme through a new ‘Black List’ on their website.

They are also set to launch a worldwide task force of secret shoppers who will purchase products marked as Egyptian Cotton from retailers both instore and online, which will then be passed along for testing.