Complex architectures of conductive and dielectric domains have been created through the thermal drawing of liquid-metal-embedded elastomers. The stretchable electronic fibres from this scalable ...
Textile waste can be transformed into functional fibres through mechanical, chemical and enzymatic recycling, followed by spinning techniques. These upcycled materials enable the sustainable ...
The Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA) of RWTH Aachen University can look forward to two award winners in 2023: In his master’s thesis, ITA master’s graduate student Flávio André Marter Diniz developed ...
Each year, more than 60 percent of textiles produced globally are made from blended fibers, yet less than 1 percent of these materials are effectively recycled. The issue stems from the source, of ...
Infinna fiber creation in wet spinning process at Espoo pilot. Just weeks after fashion’s leading textile-to-textile recycling company went bankrupt, its peer, Infinited Fiber Company (IFC), closed a ...
Textile-to-textile regeneration company Reju and textile recycler Novelles Fibres Textiles (NFT), both based in France, are partnering on the sourcing and recycling of textile scrap to support the ...
Alexander Weissensteiner, Alexander Wagner and Thomas Harter (from left) with a paper sample consisting of 30 per cent recycled cotton fibres. In Austria alone, around 220,000 tonnes of textile waste ...
For as long as humans have been around, we have been using our hands and senses to create beautiful and useful objects from the natural environment around us. While the artisans of old may not have ...
We are producing more textiles than ever before: worldwide, well over one hundred million tons of textiles are manufactured every year—more than twice as much as in the year 2000. This makes it ...
Between 6,500 and 87,000 tonnes of microfibres are shed during domestic laundering every year in the UK. Many of these minuscule fibres end up in rivers and oceans, with devastating consequences for ...
Archaeologists working near Søften, roughly 10 km north of Aarhus, have exposed a textile production complex spanning the ...
You’d be forgiven for thinking that the fashion industry is becoming more sustainable, but the opposite is true. The media is awash with ‘sustainable’ materials and rental and resale options, but how ...