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Manufacturing eco-shirts with 95% less water
Source: innovationintextiles
Cosmos Studio, a sustainable apparel start-up brand based in Hong Kong, is raising funds for the production of its new line of unisex shirts made with the lowest consumption of fresh water. The eco-friendly shirt production is powered by a newly invented colour diffusion technology that is said to make it 95% more eco-friendly, compared to any other apparel making process, according to the company.
Functional clothing can also be sustainable
Source: innovativetextiles
From 16-18 January 2018 at the Kraftwerk Berlin, Greenshowroom and the Ethical Fashion Show Berlin, as well as the new Messe Frankfurt conference, FashionSustain, and its mottoRun for Circularity, will show that clothing made of functional materials and accessories with outdoor appeal can be both fashionable and sustainable.
Fashion student grows leather-like material
Source: innovationintextiles
Liberty University senior fashion design student Luis Quijano has successfully merged fashion with microbiology and mechanical engineering to bring to life an idea of growing your own clothes.
Through a fermentation process that uses water, sugar, green tea, and kombucha (a type of fermented tea created by using a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast), Quijano is able to produce a leather-like material that he said can be crafted into clothing and is a much more sustainable product than animal skin and other modern-day fabric.
Heathcoat Fabrics presents new protection solutions
Source: Tiverton
Heathcoat Fabrics, a British technical textiles specialist, has presented its new range of activated carbon liners for military and first response chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) protection at Milipol, a leading event for homeland security, which took place in Paris this week.
“In an industry constantly faced with adapting to new challenges and potential threats from both non-friendly powers and terrorism, the demand from military and first response personnel for CBRN protection has significantly increased,” the company reports.
"119" fire evacuation exercise briefing
In order to raise employees 'awareness of fire safety and strengthen employees' self-protection ability, DNG held a fire evacuation exercise on November 9, 2017.
