05-12-2019 Research Textiles Australian researchers discover how to reclaim polyester Queensland University of Technology in Australia says it has discovered how to separate polyester from blended fabrics without damaging the…
10-11-2016 Paper Recycling breakthrough for cotton-polyester blend material United States – ‘Millions of tons’ of cotton-polyester blend material currently dumped in landfills could now be recycled thanks to…
01-01-2014 Business Uniform goal for polyester recycling Japan – Japan-based Teijin Ltd’s polyester textile manufacturing and processing company Nantong Teijin is working towards the launch of a…
10-08-2012 Plastics Teijin’s polyester recycling JV in China China – Teijin Ltd of Japan is to establish Zhejiang Jiaren New Materials Co., Ltd – a joint venture with…
15-04-2008 Business Recycled polyester in fashion Archiv – Basking in the catwalk spotlight of a Tokyo fashion show alongside a Yen 5 million (US$ 50 000)…
27-12-2007 Business Kureha to build polyester production plant in USA Archiv – Kureha Corporation, a global supplier of specialty chemicals and plastics, plans to invest over US$100 mln in a…
25-11-2020 Plastics Textiles Industry pursues plastic fibre with great success What links fashion and plastic bottles? Nothing, consumers might think – but they would be wrong. US manufacturer Unifi has…
17-11-2020 Plastics Textiles PVC recycling boosted by Australian investment fund The Vinyl Council of Australia has secured government a grant of almost AU$ 350 000 (EUR 216 000) to advance…
10-06-2020 CORONA VIRUS Textiles Portland entrepreneurs prove the power of textile scrap US firm Looptworks is transforming textile production waste into reusable facemasks. The business based in Portland, Oregon re-purposes and upcycles…
19-01-2020 Plastics Textiles Worn Again Technologies out of the lab Less than 1% of non-wearable textiles are currently turned back into new ones owing to the ‘shortcomings’ of existing recycling…
28-10-2019 Editors’ Top Picks Technology Textiles Textile recycling pioneers weave their magic When it comes to recyclers’ activities, much attention is focused on recovering metals or the ‘new gold’, plastics. And yet,…
