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"The Event of a Thread" shows the variety of opportunities provided by textile

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Special commission -With the support of the Goethe-Institut Istanbul, artist Şakir Gökçebağ has created a special commission for the exhibition. Gökçebağ decontextualizes everyday objects belonging to individuals and rearranges them site-specifically into new narratives. Among the artist’s main objects of focus are oriental rugs, which he has also rearranged site-specifically in his work “Cosmos” commissioned for the exhibition.

Focus on technical textiles charges the growth of textile industry further

Related Keywords: Technical Textiles, textile companies, Textile Industry, textile producers, unwoven textiles

The company, producing unwoven textiles for the building industry and agriculture, currently employs around 2,300 people and exports its textiles to 66 countries in the world. According to the head of ATOK, Jiří Česal, wages in the textile industry will grow by at least seven percent this year. That is what the association guarantees in a collective agreement signed with the trade unions.

ETSA board brings together CEO's from Europe's leading textile service companies

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Carrington supports many of the world’s largest employers comprising of sectors from heavy industry to health and is one of Europe’s largest workwear suppliers. Worldwide it operates in more than 80 countries supplying to key customers which include McDonalds, BUPA, TATA Steel, Shell, Coca Cola, Airbus, Jaguar Land Rover, BP, Arcelor Mittal.

L'Occitane en Provence to achieve it's goal of using 100% recycled plastic in it's bottles by 2025

Related Keywords: 100% recycled plastic, circular plastic economy, decouples plastic from fossil fuels, depolymerizing waste polyester plastic and fiber, growing global concern about plastic pollution, recycling and bottles made out of 100% recycled plastic, reducing global plastic pollution, repolymerized to create virgin-quality polyester plastic

Currently L’Occitane Group has more than 3,000 retail outlets, including 1,555 owned stores, globally. Its five brands are L’Occitane en Provence, Melvita, Erborian, L’Occitane au Brésil, and LimeLife by Alcone. The new agreement between L’Occitane Group and Loop Industries represents an important milestone in their shared commitment to reducing global plastic pollution and supporting the transition to a circular plastic economy, the companies said.

Clothing made from recycled plastic bottles

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What both Hoffman and Helen Sahi, VP of global corporate sustainability at Unifi, hope will raise the growing popularity of recycled plastic textiles is transparency around what it actually takes to manufacture this material, and what it can be turned into. Hoffman and Unifi, along with brands like Nike and Rothy’s that use Repreve, set up a demonstration room where visitors could see how plastic bottles are turned into textiles, and what those textiles can become, during New York Fashion Week earlier this month.

In house textiles expert for Spinnova

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Based in Jyväskylä, Central Finland, Spinnova employs 10 experts. Spinnova’s patented technology is said to save water, energy and chemicals, making wood-based textile fibre significantly more ecological than cotton or the current man-made fibres. Spinnova’s objective is to globally commercialise pulp-based textile fibre. Spinnova is a Finnish wood fibre company that develops ecological technology for manufacturing pulp-based textile fibre.

Iconic denim brand is looking to raise $100 million through the IPO

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Levi Strauss & Co.’s products are sold in more than 110 countries worldwide through a combination of chain retailers, department stores, online sites. It also has a global footprint of approximately 3,000 brand-dedicated retail stores and shop-in-shops.

Breathable new line of footwear

Related Keywords: functional materials for footwear, Higg Index, highly-convincing fashion, recycled clothing fibers, recycled textiles, reusing valuable and scarce raw materials, sustainability strategy, sustainable alternatives, Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Dr. Rudiger Fox, CEO at Sympatex Technologies explains that, “It is our conviction that our firm commitment to sustainability is serving as an impetus for innovation, becomes again evident in this new footwear line of materials in a highly-convincing fashion,” Also, Fox adds “While many market partners view sustainability as a stranglehold on creativity, maintaining a clear focus with our innovation processes helps us to concentrate our energy, and thus produce new solutions for our customers at a much faster pace.

World class yarn operation by UTEXA

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Honduras-based UTEXA is a new $73 million man-made yarn company that began operations in 2018. Founded with the goal of bringing enhanced competitiveness to the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) region, UTEXA was made possible through the combined vision and efforts of its investors, market opportunities and the Honduras 2020 country development program, a private sector initiative complemented by the public sector that was developed to grow the country both socially and economically.

Alternative to PET

Related Keywords: copolyesters, enzymes, polyester, polyethylene terephthalate, polymerization, polymerize, polymers, properties of PET

Enzymes - 'Furans are mainly produced with enzymes. But for the polymerization, the same processes are used as have been used for PET production for the last 70 years', says Prof. Katja Loos. Toxic metal-based catalysts and high temperatures that are needed for this process mean that it is not very environmentally friendly.

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