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ScalingInsight1 Jul 2024

New path to sustainable textile recycling

A new partnership aims to pioneer the production of recycled nylon and polyester using a patent-pending enzymatic technology. Barbara Barkhausen reports.

RecycledCircularity

Insight14 May 2024

Australian funding for fibres to fight pollution

A new Australian research hub has embarked on a mission to address the environmental challenges posed by the textile industry with funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC).

SyntheticsNaturalResearch & Development

Insight20 Mar 2024

Australian Merino wool market rejects mulesing

As consumers become more ethically conscious, Australia’s wool sector is having to pay attention to animal welfare concerns and the practice of mulesing is posing a growing risk for sales.

Design & Trends

Insight9 Oct 2023

UK-Australia free trade deal offers expansion

The UK-Australia free trade agreement deal offers wool traders a chance to expand yarn choices for textile manufacturers. Barbara Barkhausen, Poorna Rodrigo and Keith Nuthall investigate.

FibresYarnsResearch & Development

Insight4 May 2023

Australian cruelty-free wool production

In Tasmania, Australia, a sheep farmer is seeking to demonstrate how additional welfare concern for wool livestock can reap rewards in international clothing and accessory markets.

NaturalSustainability

Insight30 Jan 2023

Possum fibre producers plan to diversify

Brushtail possums continue to be used as a source of luxury fibre by producers in New Zealand and Australia but the industry faces some severe challenges. Barbara Barkhausen reports from Sydney.

NaturalSpun/NaturalResearch & Development

Insightfree18 Nov 2021

Successful 2021 leaves knit industry in good stead

Brenda Dionisi, Liz Newmark, Barbara Barkhausen, Barbara Bierach, Sarah Gibbons and Keith Nuthall round up some of the most interesting knit-related developments from the past year.

FibresYarnsManufacturing Technology

Insight5 Jan 2021

Realising the strengths of digital textile printing

Australia’s digital textile finishing industry is small and therefore challenging compared to markets in Asia, Europe, or the US.

Digital PrintingFinishingManufacturing Technology

Insight4 Jan 2021

New Zealand prepped for fruitful inkjet future

Barbara Barkhausen assesses the strengths of New Zealand’s increasingly significant digital textile printing market.

Digital PrintingManufacturing Technology

Insightfree21 Feb 2019

Wool industry aims to meet growing demand for traceability

The global wool industry is responding to the growing demand for traceability through a range of new initiatives and technology-driven innovations

FabricsNaturalEvents

Insightfree12 Oct 2018

Digital textile printing brings localised production to Australia

Can digital textile printing help bring the Australian textile and clothing manufacturing sector back to sustainable growth? There are experts who believe this scaleable finishing technology can give Australian design talent room to thrive

Digital PrintingManufacturing Technology