From January to November 2025, the cumulative export volume of polyester yarn reached 530,000 tons, marking a year-on-year increase of 9.7%. Cumulative imports amounted to 2,045 tons, reflecting a ...

Laundry is a fact of life—and so are the microfibers it leaves behind.

Factories are using a combination of resource-efficient technologies to cut waste, conserve water, and build resilience.

In a quiet living room in Luling, Louisiana, five children huddled around a few donated sewing machines. They were the first ...

Five youth in climate change initiative have won the 2025 African Climate Innovation Challenge at the ACIC Startup Pitch event held in Kampala, Uganda last Saturday. The winners of the 2025 ACIC ...

Fizzy water was the key to making polyester dye less harmful to the environment in the creation of a new method developed by an interdisciplinary team at the University of Leeds spin-out company, ...

The new threads have the potential to divert millions of garments from landfill each year. Credit: Coats Group plc. These threads, made from post-industrial and post-consumer waste, are available in ...

Let me tell you a secret – I use sewing machine thread on my embroidery machine a lot of the time. The embroidery purists would disown me – And there is a reason. Sewing thread may not always hold up ...