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LA’s Laguna Fabrics Launches the Natural Selection Collection with Lenzing, Hyosung
The circular knitting mill has teamed with fiber experts on a line of sustainable stretch textiles.
MycoWorks Marks 10 Years with New Product Updates
The mycelium-leather maker released three new versions of its Reishi alt-leather as a key brand partner…
Material World: Bringing Bacteria Blazers to Market
Ganni and Polybion partnered on a bacteria-grown jacket while Conagen's innovation addresses material waste.
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Material World: Bankable Byproducts from Bananas and Beer
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Future Fabrics Expo Highlights Green Innovations, and Practical Solutions, for Fashion
The event offered ideas, innovations and practical solutions for brands, designers and companies serious…
Cocona Labs Charges Ahead with 37.5 Biodegradable Thermoregulating Tech
The textile technology company wants to scale its technology beyond synthetic fabrics.
Kodak Announces Launch of New York Textile Test Facility
The company has opened a lab for testing fabric properties from strength and color-fastness to…
Material World: Bloom Labs Wants to Make ‘Circularity an Actuality’
A material circularity platform launches while a new leather alternative emerges.
Material World: Running on Coffee
Researchers explore how mussels' unique adhesive property applies to dye-polluted wastewater as DSC launches…
Mycelium Maker Ecovative Raises $30M Series E
A partner to Ecco and Pangaia, the company said the funding should help it launch commercially available…
Driving Material Innovation with Eco-Engineering
With PowerAir and ShedLess, Polartec proves itself a leader in sustainability innovations like reducing…
‘Novelty’ Leather Features in New $125 Sandals
Lux Research's Tiffany Hua questions whether the alternative leather will ever find more than a "niche…
Material World: This Alt Leather is Bananas
Replant from von Holzhausen and Modern Meadow's Bio-Vera are the latest eco-alternatives keeping animal skins…
Material World: No PFAS, No Problem
From Impermea Materials to researchers at Cornell University, textile coatings are going green.
Protein-Based Alternative to Nylon and Spandex Gets $3.7 Million
Corinna Chen, partner at co-lead funder Material Impact, says Werewool is a "breakthrough approach for…