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The European personal care product industry is facing a barrage of new European Union (EU) regulations, with a review of the 2009 Cosmetics Products Regulation (CPR) (1) being combined with environmental reforms. These changes, debated at the 2023 annual conference of personal care product industry association Cosmetics Europe – called ‘Preparing for the Future’- will be a major challenge.…

Higher education institutions harmed by a five-years-old Islamist insurgency in Mozambique’s northern Muslim-majority province Cabo Delgado province, are reluctant to restart operations, despite security guarantees from the Mozambican military, and their allied forces from Rwanda and the Southern African Development Community (SADC).…

Textile finishers and dyers in the European Union (EU) will face another set of detailed sustainability rules, through the passage into law of a revised EU classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation. This move has sparked industry concerns about additional costs and loss of competitiveness on global markets.…

The European Parliament (EP) is pushing for European Union (EU) policies and laws to impede fast fashion, which its members consider a threat to the environment. MEPs have been debating how to respond to the EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles, which was released by the European Commission last March (2022) as a detailed road map pushing the industry towards circulatory and carbon neutrality.…

While opinion polling indicates that efforts to steer demand away from mass-producing, low quality, unsustainable fast fashion towards the slow fashion of high quality, sustainable, made-to-last, timeless designs have borne fruit, consumers are still reluctant to follow up their stated good intentions with purchases, say researchers.…

Increasing numbers of companies are seeking to protect intellectual property (IP) rights for smart textile products based on graphene ink technology, lawyers have told WTiN’s smart textiles channel. 

Moreover, they said that researchers and manufacturers looking at entering this segment “haven’t missed the bandwagon”: “It’s just getting going – plenty more innovation and inventions to be done”, said Matthew Smith, a patent attorney from London, UK-based IP legal firm Mewburn Ellis.…

The Covid-19-related increase in waste from disposed personal protective equipment (PPE) has focused attention on nonwovens waste management.

For instance, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said 1.5 billion units of PPE, much of which nonwovens, weighing 87,000 tonnes, were procured between March 2020 and November 2021 alone and shipped to support countries’ urgent Covid-19 under UN emergency work alone.…

The Brazilian textile sector has been increasing investment in digital printing, modernising its finishing to boost international competitiveness to offer near-sourcing services to American and European clients as western buyers review their China sourcing.

India-based business intelligence service Infinium Global Research, in a report sent to Digital Textile, said the Brazilian digital textile printing market was worth USD28.37 million in 2022, projected to rise to USD75.25 million by 2030.…

Accountants and auditors have been asked to contribute to an International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) review of its sector specific SASB standards, to make them more applicable worldwide. The ISSB has taken responsibility for the former Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards, which companies using its IFRS S1 and S2 standards on general sustainability and climates must consider when drafting sustainability reports.…

Anti-money laundering is a detection game, with AML officers (AMLOs) looking for red flags that may indicate crime-tainted transactions, and then digging deeper. But that usually requires automated alerts which need to be managed and tweaked, with algorithms configured according to risk.…