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Related Keywords: brands, clothes, fibers, garment, Lenzing, renewable material, supply chain, Tencel, Textile, traceability, value chain

The Lenzing Group entered the age of digital traceability, showing its blockchain technology at the Première Vision show here.

The leader in specialty fibers made from renewable material wood will use the technology to support its Tencel branded fiber business, ensuring transparency and traceability for brands and consumers of its fibers in finished products. Lenzing is partnering with Hong Kong-based TextileGenesis on the project.

Related Keywords: blockchain, fabrics, plastic, Recycle, sustainable, Textile, traceability, waste, Waste2wear

Sustainable textiles company, Waste2wear, will present the world’s first collection of traceable recycled ocean plastic fabrics at international textile fair Première Vision Paris (September 17-19).

The used plastic comes from a small island near Shanghai where, in collaboration with NGO’s and the local government, Waste2wear created a business model in which former fishermen could recover lost income by fishing plastic from the ocean, known as the Ocean Plastic Project; they now collect more than 30 tonnes of waste from the ocean every month.

Related Keywords: Applied DNA sciences, innovation, manufacturing, material, PCR, SigNify, supply chain, traceability

Applied DNA Sciences, a leader in PCR-based DNA manufacturing for product authenticity and traceability solutions, has announced a sales and marketing partnership with Navarpluma that extends Applied DNA’s textiles business to include the global down and feather supply chain.

Related Keywords: compliance will improve, compliant units will suffer, continue with optional duty regime, evaders will prosper, government urged to roll back, One percent excise duty on readymade garment, proposed in the budget, traceability, until goods and services tax introduced, whole value chain will be covered by duty, worth rupees thousand and above

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while presenting the budget in Parliament on February 29 had proposed a one percent excise duty on readymade garments worth Rs 1,000 and above. Textile companies have urged the government to roll back the proposed excise duty on branded readymade garments and continue with the ‘optional duty regime’ that applies currently, until the goods and services tax (GST) is introduced.