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India has been furiously negotiating deals ever since the RCEP came into force earlier this year. Initial rounds of negotiations on FTA and other trade policies with several countries should hopefully ensure a handful of agreements by 2024. A texfash.com report.

Does the Shroud of Turin really date back to the time of Jesus Christ? A recent peer-reviewed research suggests as much even as it calls for further laboratory tests. The experimental results are compatible with the hypothesis that the TS is a 2000-year-old relic, as supposed by Christian tradition.

The big picture is that China, once a dominant player, is under pressure and buyers are desperately looking to diversify risks. India has suddenly become important as it is the only other place with a large vertically integrated textile chain, but does not have the huge capacities. Sarbajit Ghose, Managing Director of Laguna Clothing, does some hard talk as he takes a 360-degree view of how sourcing works.

Janpeter Horn took charge in April as Chairperson of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association, Germany — the most important voice of the mechanical/plant engineering industry with 130 member companies. Horn, who is Managing Director of August Herzog Maschinenfabrik, sees his role as that of a moderator who reconciles different interests and represents the industry's positions in international bodies.

Last week, Control Union, one of the world’s largest certifiers of organic cotton, announced that it would no more certify cotton, among others. The entire certification process apparently was too much of a balancing act, Control Union sources tell texfash.com.

Leather can be classified as a biomaterial, and the industry increasingly is realising that it needs to invest in fact-based communication to consumers and brands that it is one material where there is no waste, where everything can be re-used, re-cycled and ultimately be biodegradable. Debbie Burton, Marketing Head at Pittards, shares how this industry is part of the solution to create a circular society.
 

Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) is one of the leading organisations working on sustainability in fashion. María Luisa Martínez Díez, Public Affairs Director at GFA, speaks to texfash.com about how GFA sees the just-announced EU Textiles Strategy from a global standpoint.

In the coldest of climes the best insulation comes from down—the underside plumage of geese and ducks. A tightknit family based out of Vernon in the United States that has been in this business for over three decades, conscious of sourcing with responsibility and processing sustainably too, Allied Feather + Down has promised to debut its carbon neutral down insulation by Fall 2023. With its first sustainability report on the anvil, Creative Director Matthew Betcher shares with texfash.com the steps it has been taking to reduce its carbon footprint.

The 3G Tailor Training System is implemented by training of dedicated trainers inside a garment factory so that they can train others as per the skill requirements of the factory.

Bangladesh is going all out to emerge as a leader in circularity by scaling its recycling capacity and generating more value from these waste streams. The 2020–21 Circular Fashion Partnership (CFP0 project paved the way, but there were lessons for the future too. A texfash.com report.