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Related Keywords: clothing, environmental impact, fashion, fashion industry, fast fashion, Garments, landfills, planet, Sustainable clothing, Textiles

The proposals from Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee to begin to address the thoroughly outsized contribution of the fashion industry to the trashing of our planet were modest.

If they could be criticised, it was for that very modesty.

They started with the proposal for 1p per garment to be taken as a levy, raising £35 million a year to fund better collection and sorting of garments to stop them ending up in landfill.

Related Keywords: apparel, buyer, exports, Garments, Imports, India, seller, Spain, Textiles

The Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) will hold its annual buyer-seller meet in Madrid, Spain, on October 9 and 10 hoping to raise apparel exports from India to that country.

"We have been receiving good responses to the buyer-seller meets, which we have been organizing in Spain since 2008,” AEPC deputy director C Eswarasundar said in a statement.

Related Keywords: design, digital, eco-efficient, fabric, garment, innovation, ITMA, Jeanologist, production, technology, Textiles

The Spanish company leader in developing eco-efficient technology, will present the sourcing model of the future at ITMA 2019. This innovative production process marks the beginning of a new era in the textile industry.

This operational model delivers five fundamental benefits to the textile industry: it is eco-efficient, cost neutral, scalable, agile and digital; connecting design, production and consumer.

Related Keywords: double, fabric, fabric production, Khadi, Khadi and Village Industries Commission, KVIC, Modi, share, Textiles

The share of Khadi fabric in the total textile mill production has doubled to 8.49 per cent in five years to 2018-19, the Khadi and Village Industries Commission said Tuesday.

While the mill fabric production was 2,486 million square metres in the 2014-15 fiscal, the production of Khadi was 105.38 million square metres – showing a share of 4.23 per cent of the overall textiles production.

Related Keywords: Beaulieu Fibres International, BICO, EqoBalance, fibers, geotextiles, global raw materials, innovation, ITMA, PET, research, sustainability, Textiles, yarns

Global raw materials’ provider Beaulieu Engineered Products invites ITMA 2019 visitors to tap into the inspiring performance of its fibres, yarns and technical textiles in order to enhance innovation and sustainability for high end textiles (Hall 3 Stand C130A).

2019 is seeing the introduction of exciting advances for many of the application segments served by the various businesses of this Beaulieu International Group division. And more is to come, including increased support on the co-development front.

Related Keywords: China, fibers, green, Hong Kong, Polytechnic University, PolyU, technology, Textiles, Wuyi University

PolyU, or the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is all set to endorse and promote green and healthy textiles and in its endeavour to make this happen, it has signed a collaborative agreement with Wuyi University, China.

The agreement distinctly states that both PolyU and the Chinese university will invest significantly in the research and development of green and healthy textiles for a period extending up to 3 years.

Related Keywords: apparels, China, fabric, innovation, Lycra, Textile, Textiles, yarn

In May, the Lycra Company opened its brand new, state-of-the-art research & Development (R&D) lab in Nanhai, China. The Advanced Textile Innovation Center (ATIC) represents a significant increase in the firm’s global R&D capabilities and demonstrates its commitment to providing its services to its customers in Asia.

The lab will help mills, brands and retailers, as well as Western-based companies with local sourcing offices, accelerate the development of innovative garment solutions that meet apparel market needs and add value to customer’s products.

Related Keywords: Ayurganic, ecofriendly, fabric, fashion, organic, skin, sustainability, Textiles

We are at an Ayurvastra dyeing centre in Balaramapuram near Thiruvan-anthapuram in Kerala, watching how organic cloth is being treated using Ayurvedic principles. Global Organic Textile Standard-certified organic cotton is scoured in fresh water to clean it, then put into vessels filled with water with a small portion of oil. The fabric is then dried and treated with buffalo milk and cow urine mixed in water—the milk and urine taken from cows and buffaloes fed with herbs—as well as cotton seeds and leaves.

Related Keywords: clothing, fashion, fast fashion, Forever 21, H&M, retail, Textiles, Urban Outfitters

People are buying more clothing today than they did 15 years ago.

But they’re only wearing it half as long.

That means clothing production and sales are both on the rise, and so is the amount of clothing in landfills.

In such a climate, “fast-fashion” companies, like Forever 21 and Zaful, are growing, said Karen Leonas, a professor in the Wilson College of Textiles at N.C. State University. And thrift stores and secondhand clothing sales are growing even faster, at 24 times the rate of other retail.

Related Keywords: bales, China, cotton, export, fiber, import, tariff, Textiles, trade war, United States

The China Cotton Association will submit an application on behalf of its members for a waiver on import duties on uncombed cotton from the United States, according to a statement on its website on Thursday.

The Ministry of Finance posted a list of goods, including cotton that has not been carded or combed, at the end of May that could be eligible for waivers on tariffs that China imposed in July on U.S. goods as part of the China-U.S. trade war.

Waiver applications need to be submitted by July 5.