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Gorpcore’ fashion, wearing outdoor functional clothing as fashionable streetwear, is rising in popularity, so much that much specialist apparel specifically designed for mountain environments will “never see a mountain,” a performance clothing designer has told WTiN.

Their expensive materials and complex designs have “attracted fashion and streetwear to outdoor clothing,” Richard Dannah, an outdoor performance designer with more than 20 years’ experience in the field, told WTiN.…

Thailand has often been overshadowed as a clothing and textile outsourcing hub, given the high profile of the industries in neighbours Vietnam and Cambodia – but its output is significant and a free trade agreement (FTA) now under negotiation with the European Union (EU) could boost its exports.…

Governments and major auto companies worldwide are vying to be sustainable transport champions, declaring ambitious goals for a switch to electric and zero-emission vehicles as well as other measures to green up their fleets. But environmentalists say that ‘green-botching’ where environmental measures are being implemented by governments and companies so badly that they undermine their green goals is becoming a real problem.…

Niger students admitted to French universities for the 2023-2024 academic year have been stranded in their home country because of the recent coup d’état. The French embassy in the capital Niamey says 1,200 Niger students are due to attend higher education courses in France for the new academic year, with 456 recently admitted for their first year of study and hence requiring a French visa to travel.…

Risk specialists predict that the current instability in China’s trust sector and China’s slowing economic growth will lead to a massive outflow of capital from China, breaching Chinese money laundering laws. That will include both the export of legally earned money in excess of Chinese capital export caps of USD50,000 per year and illicit movements of criminal proceeds.…

Companies in the nonwoven adhesives market are innovating to overcome geopolitical and environmental pressures forecast by market analysts to pose challenges for the next five years. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine’s impact on the global economy and energy prices; continued supply chain fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic; and growing sustainability concerns and associated regulatory changes are tough obstacles, claim market researchers OG Analysis, from Connecticut, USA.…

Bangladesh has struggled to rebuild its reputation as an ethical sourcing location since the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster, so the murder of Bangladeshi union leader Shahidul Islam on June 25 has sparked concern within the country’s important clothing export sector.

Shahidul was Gazipur unit president of Bangladesh Garment and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF), a prominent trade union, who lost another comrade named Aminul Islam to a violent and murderous attack in 2012.…

Portugal is developing innovative textile and garment applications of eucalyptus and cork, natural resources that abound in the country, while looking to ensure these new fibres comply with new sustainability and circularity requirements in Europe. 
António Braz Costa, general director at the Portuguese Technological Centre for Textile and Clothing (Centro Tecnológico Têxtil e Vestuário – CITEVE) and the affiliated Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials (Centro de Nanotecnologia e Materiais Técnicos, Funcionais e Inteligentes – CeNTI) told Twist International, that the Portuguese sector is now meeting a 10-year-old goal of boosting its production of textile fibres from wood sources.…

A Peru university has been honoured by the UN for a groundbreaking sustainability programme, that imparts practical environmental skills to students, which they then practice in the community. Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (USIL), Peru, based in the capital Lima, was a winner of the Next Generation Learning and Skills section of the International Green Gown Awards 2023, supported by the UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (HESI).…

An increasing push for decarbonisation in North America is opening more opportunities for the production and sale of soybean oil, canola oil and other bio-based fats and oils.

Rising demand from the domestic energy sector is increasingly leading the US oilseeds, oils and fats industry to re-valuate the value of their products as feedstock for renewable fuels and biodiesel.…