Archive: August 2022

Estonian clothing company Baltika has sold its women’s clothing brand Ivo Nikkolo on license, for €8m (US$8m) on a 10-year term, according to local media...

According to recent figures by the Clean Clothes Campaign, clothing workers are on average poorer when they earn the applicable minimum wage.

A new clinical-grade collagen patch made from discarded bullfrog skin has been developed by materials scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in collaboration with Singapore-based...

Warm clothing that alleviates menstrual or other pain in the lower abdomen and back has been developed by Body Moody of Prague, Czech Republic.

An improved prosthesis for abdominal wall hernia repair, particularly via laparoscopy, has been developed by Medtronic Sofradim Production of Trévoux, France.

Bandages or tapes with improved extensibility have been developed by Johnson & Johnson Consumer of Skillman, New Jersey, USA.

One of the largest premium brands in Switzerland, Calida Holding, which focuses on underwear and furniture, has opened a factory in Sibiu region, central Romania,...

As part of an ongoing project focused on textile-based soft actuators, a team of researchers at Jiangnan University in China have developed new artificial muscles...

An investigation by Unearthed, part of Greenpeace, has revealed that mixed garment off-cuts from factories are being burned across Cambodia to fuel brick kilns.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and Royal Golden Eagle (RGE), a global resources-based manufacturing group, have launched the RGE-NTU Sustainable Textile Research Centre to...

Global chemicals company Indorama Ventures has named the winners of a competition it has run for young designers in Thailand.

In recent years, the research institute CeNTI – Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials based in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, has collaborated with several...

Japanese apparel retailer Honeys has started construction of its third factory in Myanmar, marking a rare foreign investment in the country since the military coup.

Polish apparel company LPP has launched a new business to manage the retailer’s logistics network.

University of Washington researchers have developed a flexible, wearable thermoelectric device that converts body heat to electricity as a way of continuously powering wearable electronics.

Envisage Technologies has worked with Switch Mobility to deliver its 4th-generation Switch e1 bus.