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At FASHCON: 20 Issues Impacting the Industry - and How Execs are Reacting

FASHCON (Hong Kong, March 22) brought together leading buyers and suppliers to discuss sustainability, sourcing shifts, consumer experience strategies...

HeiQ Launches Its First Visible Textile Technology

HeiQ (Switzerland) has launched HeiQ XReflex is a radiant barrier technology on high performance fabrics to create warmth without bulk and allow the u...

Breakthrough in Power-Generating Fabric

A research team at Donghua University in Shanghai has uncovered a way to achieve the continuous and scalable manufacture of amphibious energy yarns an...

Uzbekistan Looks to Value-Added Product

Uzbekistan wants to progress from being an exporter of raw cotton to developing value added products. With that in mind, President Shavkat...

The Link Between Quality Assurance and Business Success

Most people think of quality assurance as inspection and testing of the finished product. However, it really begins much earlier. The produ...

The Quest for Newness, The Challenge of Paying For It

Spinexpo Shanghai is always an excellent window on what’s really happening in the knitwear industry. The fair offers extensive trend...

Pineapple Leather – A Vegan Option

Carmen Hijosa has created Pinatex, a textile woven from the long fibres in the fruit's discarded leaves that offers a sustainable alternative to l...

Kingpins Takes a Firm Stand on Sustainability

Kingpins Show is taking a firm stand on sustainability. The global denim show will begin the process of requiring all exhibiting denim mills to ...

Extreme Creativity Proves to be Extremely Profitable

While most of the market is chasing price, IZ Direct Enterprises Ltd. chose to take a different direction. The Hong Kong-based company decided to...

10 Big New Developments from ISPO

Sourcing starts early for the sports and activewear market, purely due to the performance and innovation required in development from fiber to finishe...

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