Fashion for Good: Blueprint For Near-net-zero Textile Manufacturing

Fashion for Good launches the first open-source blueprint for near-net-zero textile manufacturing, tackling one of fashion’s biggest emissions hotspots. Developed under the Future Forward Factory project, the blueprint offers Tier 2 manufacturers in India five practical, financially viable pathways to reduce carbon emissions by up to 93%. 

ROICA™ at ISPO: Responsible Stretch Solutions for Sportswear

Asahi Kasei’s premium stretch fiber brand, ROICA™, continues to take a responsible approach to innovation, advanced functionality, and trusted quality for the evolving sports apparel industry. 

At ISPO Munich 2025, ROICA™ will once again be featured as an important element of the Asahi Kasei booth, presenting the latest developments in responsible stretch fiber technology. This year, ROICA™ introduces a carefully selected range of samples from seven European textile partners — Brugnoli, Cifra, Iluna Group, Inplet Pletiva, Penn Solutions, Sitip, and Tessitura Colombo Antonio — each demonstrating the possibilities of ROICA™ in sports and activewear. 

In addition, ROICA™ will highlight two special initiatives: 

• The adoption of ROICA™ V550 in the official EXPO 2025 Osaka, Kansai uniforms by CRAFTEVO® -V&A Japan, showing a new approach to compostable, circular event apparel. 
• The collaboration of NILIT and ROICA™ aims to develop an innovative fabric concept with reduced en-vironmental impact, combining SENSIL® By-Nature Nylon 6.6 and ROICA™ made using a mass balance approach with renewable feedstock. 

Kraig: Hiring Initiative to Support Expanded Spider Silk Production in Southeast Asia

Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, a leader in spider silk technology*, launched a key hiring initiative at its production operations in Southeast Asia. This expansion of the company's production workforce is driven by rapidly increasing throughput, an expanded operational footprint, and preparations for the opening of its newest production center, now in active development.
 
The company is ramping up staffing to support what it expects to be a significant increase in production volumes over the coming quarters. These new team members will play a critical role in supporting the deployment of the Company's advanced spider silk technologies and modernized sericulture systems across its growing network of facilities.
 
All incoming production staff will receive specialized training under Dr. Nirmal Kumar, one of the world's foremost sericulture experts. Training under Dr. Kumar will prepare new hires to support operational growth at Kraig Labs' newest production center, currently in development, increasing capacity, resilience, and commercial production of its high-performance spider silk.
 

Strategic partnership with Deren: Dibella strengthens its presence in France

Deren and Dibella are joining forces and have agreed to a partnership for the French market. Through this strategic collaboration, both companies combine their strengths: Dibella’s expertise in high-quality, durable, and sustainably produced textiles, and Deren’s market knowledge and trusted customer relationships across France. 

Together, Deren and Dibella will offer French customers a comprehensive portfolio of long-lasting, responsibly manufactured textiles alongside excellent service. The alliance cooperation represents an important step in Dibella’s international growth strategy, and reinforces the shared commitment both companies have to providing professionals with sustainable textile solutions that stand for quality, reliability, and responsible business practices. 

Deren and Dibella look forward to a successful collaboration and to jointly shaping a more sustainable future for the French market.

LFDY: First flagship store in Paris

Streetwear label Live Fast Die Young (LFDY) continues its international growth and opened its first store in France on November 15, 2025 — right in the heart of Le Marais at 33 Rue du Temple, one of Paris’ most vibrant creative hubs. Following locations in Germany, Amsterdam and London, the Paris flagship marks a major milestone for the brand and reinforces its ambition to establish a strong presence in key cities around the globe. 

The roughly 100 sqm LFDY store preserves the character of the historic building, weaving its layered past into a contemporary retail design. Exposed walls with faded murals, cast-iron columns, and the original tiled flooring set the stage for the LFDY signature aesthetic. Sleek polished steel furnishings with clean lines create a striking contrast to the quintessential Parisian charm, highlighting the brand’s distinctive design language – in cooperation with the team of architects from Dorenz + Jokisch. 

Åhléns & TrusTrace: Partnership to strengthen Supply Chain Sustainability, Risk Management and Compliance

TrusTrace, a leader in supply chain traceability and compliance, announced a strategic partnership with Åhléns, one of Sweden’s most iconic retail brands, to enhance traceability, improve sustainability risk management, and streamline compliance across its value chain.

Åhléns offers a curated mix of quality brands across fashion, home, beauty, and children’s products, serving approximately 60 million visitors each year. Åhléns has a turnover of approximately 4.9 billion SEK and the company employs around 3,000 team members and includes Åhléns Outlet and Designtorget as subsidiaries.

Founded in 189 and following a period of renewed focus on restoring profitability and establishing a stronger foundation for the future, Åhléns is now accelerating its sustainability agenda. As part of this next phase, the company has selected TrusTrace to help deepen visibility into the supply chain, strengthen risk mitigation, and streamline adherence to emerging European sustainability regulations.

Rieter with New Group Structure: Annual savings CHF 30 million

The planned acquisition of the “Barmag” Division of OC Oerlikon will create the leading system provider worldwide for natural and man-made fibers. Rieter is confident it will receive all regulatory approvals to complete the acquisition in the fourth quarter of 2025. The Rieter Group is therefore adjusting its Group structure as of January 1, 2026, to take this acquisition into account and to be able to provide an even more agile response to market challenges. 

The Machines & Systems and After Sales Divisions will be merged. Alexander Özbahadir will take over the new “Short-Staple Fiber” Division, which will be responsible for the short-staple fiber business, effective January 1, 2026. This will create synergies in sales and service activities and increase customer centricity through a geographical focus. 

CARBIOS: Two new multi-year commercial agreements for recycled PET

CARBIOS announced the signing of two new multi-year commercial agreements with major players in beverage industry, for the supply of recycled PET (r-PET).

The signing of these two new commercial agreements marks CARBIOS’s entry into a new strategic sector: beverages. Thgey are part of the pre-commercialization process for CARBIOS’s future industrial site, bringing the current level of pre-sales to approximately 50% of the site’s maximum production capacity.

Negotiations are ongoing with other partners to reach a pre-commercialization level of 70% of the Longlaville site’s maximum capacity, a threshold constituting one of the conditions for obtaining additional non-dilutive funding necessary to resume construction of the Longlaville plant.

A regional grant of €12.5 million has also been signed, bringing the total amount of public funding already secured to €42.5 million.

Evidence-based verification in recycled cotton sourcing

Hong Kong–based New Focus Textiles is adopting Haelixa’s Swiss DNA traceability technology to strengthen trust and transparency in recycled cotton production. 

Haelixa, the Swiss-based global leader in DNA-based traceability, has enabled New Focus Textiles to provide forensic proof of recycled cotton content across its textile-to-textile manufacturing operations. This marks a significant move towards evidence-based verification in recycled material sourcing, addressing one of the main credibility gaps in the circular materials market.  

DNA-based forensic traceability for recycled cotton  
Haelixa’s DNA marker is applied directly to post-industrial and post-consumer waste, before shredding, staying intact through New Focus Textiles’ mechanical recycling process. The non-toxic DNA marker, which is derived from Swiss mountain herbs, is a permanent tag, and cannot be removed or copied, remaining embedded throughout spinning, weaving, dyeing, and finishing.  

‘Fit for Duty’ explores military uniforms’ influence on fashion

An Army combat uniform, Burberry trench coat and Hawaiian shirt are among pieces featured in “Fit for Duty: Form and Function in Military Dress,” a multisite Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection (CF+TC) exhibition opening on Veterans Day.
Worn in Iraq by a Cornell alumnus, the combat uniform set a template for contemporary camouflage and tactical design, according to exhibition notes. The khaki trench coat, originally designed for British officers, evolved from battlefield necessity into a fashion staple. The Hawaiian shirt reflects the early influence of Japanese textiles – designs and motifs forced to shift after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

“These garments reveal how the theaters of war and fashion intersect,” said curator Catherine Kueffer Blumenkamp, MPS ’15, associate director of the CF+TC and a lecturer in the College of Human Ecology’s Department of Human Centered Design. “Both realms stage systems of fit – physical, functional and symbolic – that continue to influence how we design, wear and interpret dress.”