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Related Keywords: apparel, apparel industry, Canadian outerwear, environment, fabric, fiber, Garments, jacket, technology, Textiles

Winter is coming, and textiles equipped with technologies that keep cold at bay have come into focus.

Canadian outerwear brand Mackage helps city and mountain dwellers brave the chill with its ultra-cool and luxe fall collection, Mackage Raw Power. Its gorgeously outfitted puffer jackets feel light and airy, but pack a lot of punch: The coats enable the wearer to withstand frigid arctic temperatures, while possessing an enviable high fashion look.

Related Keywords: China, cotton, expansion, fiber, Filatex India, home textiles, India, manufacturing, polyester, production

Filatex India Ltd., a manufacturer of polyester and polypropylene multifilament yarn and polyester chips, after nearly competing a ₹850 crore expansion, is now planning to foray into the home textiles segment, where margins ‘are better than in the commodity business’, a top executive said.

“We are planning to enter the fabrics business, mainly home textiles, where the margins are better. We are still finalising the plans; this business would involve an investment of around ₹100 crore,” Madhu Sudhan Bhageria, chairman and managing director, Filatex India Ltd., said in an interview.

Related Keywords: 3D printer, carbon fiber, Chinese, Covesto, Dispercoll U, fiber, future, material, polymer

Polymer manufacturer Covesto has teamed up with Chinese designer Axis Liu for two customised concept shoes that will be on display at the K 2019 trade fair in Düsseldorf next month.

For the design of the running shoe, Axis Liu was inspired by a traditional figure from Chinese arts: the “Multilayer Carved Ball” which has a structure made of several layers. This effect, used in the midsole, was produced by a 3D printer.

Related Keywords: cork tree, Cork-A-Tex, cotton, fashion, fiber, innovation, natural, New York, Portugal, sustainable, Têxteis Penedo, Textile, yarn

At the New York Market – It took much persistence and passion. But now, after eight years in development, Têxteis Penedo is at New York Home Fashions Market with its Cork-A-Tex innovation, developed to turn cork into fabric for home textiles.

At its headquarters in Guimarães, Portugal, the company recently opened a new factory to produce sustainable home textiles made of 30% cork fiber and 70% cotton.

Related Keywords: China, fiber, future, PET, polyester, polyethylene terephthalate, polymerization, PTA, Textile, ZCE, Zhengzhou

China's Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) plans to list next year polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle chip and polyester staple fiber (PSF) futures.

Related Keywords: clothing, cotton, eco-friendly, fabrics, fiber, future, microplastics, Pinatex, science, sustainable, synthetic leather, vegan

The clothing of the future will look nothing like what we wear today. Or maybe it will.

A hunger for sustainability is leading researchers to new organic materials from which to design clothing.

Other visionaries are working to make our future outfits as smart as we want to look.

Related Keywords: cotton, fabric, fashion, fashion industry, fiber, Garments, pure, silk, sustainable fashion

In a long-ago era before the world worried about climate change, social justice, ecology, etc., sustainable fashion was based on the snob value of pure wool, pure cotton and pure silk.

In a long-ago era before the world worried about climate change, social justice, ecology, etc., sustainable fashion was based on the snob value of pure wool, pure cotton and pure silk.

Synthetic fabrics, initially hailed with wonder because they laundered reasonably well the first few times and did not require ironing, were subsequently regarded with disdain by true fashionistas.

Related Keywords: apparel, Bangladesh, China, exports, fabrics, fiber, Garments, Imports, manufacturing, readymade

Apparel industrialists here expressed worry over the duty free import trade of ready made garments (RMG)from Bangladesh. China has taken undue advantage of the free trade and is selling goods to India, they said.

Related Keywords: Carbon, carbon fiber, fiber, Montefibre, Plant, polyacrylonitrile, printing

Montefibre Carbon's 80k aims to be the new standard for large-tow carbon fiber for industrial purposes, and the company expects its impact on the industry to be similar to the 50k tow first launched more than 20 years ago.

Montefibre's carbon fiber precursor is produced from an exclusive polyacrylonitrile formulation (PAN), which enables a carbon fiber of high resistance, high elastic modulus, and low density, and which translates to very rigid and lightweight high performance composites.

Related Keywords: apparel, bales, Brazil, China, clothing, cotton, exports, fiber, market, production, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, world

Cotton is perhaps the most recognized fiber in the apparel market, and is used, either in its pure form or blended with other materials, to make much of the world’s clothing.

The soft, fluffy staple fiber grows in a boll around the seeds of a cotton plant, and the fiber is nearly pure cellulose, the most abundant organic polymer on Earth. Fibers from the cotton plant are spun into yarn or thread and made into fiber, yielding soft, breathable textiles. Cotton is the most widely used natural fiber in clothing today.