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"Lenzing has developed a new method for producing woven fabrics with TENCEL™ lyocell that exhibit exceptional stretch and recovery properties. It involves a wet fabric pre-treatment during which the fibers undergo significant swelling in diameter, leading to increased yarn crimps in the width-wise direction in woven...

"Other highlights included the Engineered Jean launched by Levi Strauss in 1999, which marked a progressive move away from 100 percent cotton denim, using TENCEL™ lyocell in the weft and cotton in the warp, and the introduction of TENCEL™ in blends with other materials like...

"Fifty exclusive oversized women’s denim shirts are to be made available to buyers at the Coreva Design Store in Milan, Italy, representing the first fruits of a research project between fiber producer Lenzing and denim manufacturer Candiani. They are based on Coreva, Candiani’s biodegradable stretch...

"The new Naveena Denim Mills (Pakistan) Holistic collection, for example, employs a suite of sustainable materials such as organic cotton and post-consumer and post-industrial waste cotton that has been shredded and recycled at its in-house unit in Pakistan. Hemp and TENCEL™ provide sustainable and aesthetic...

"The Content Marketing Institute (CMI) has announced Carved in Blue won a 2020 Content Marketing Award for Best Topic Specific Blog. The Content Marketing Awards, produced by the Content Marketing Institute, is long-running international content marketing global awards program. This year’s panel of all-star judges reviewed...

Tricia Carey: Tencel x Refibra lyocell is the first commercially-viable process for manufacturing fibre from botanic origin using scraps to make new lyocell fibre. Refibra technology uses post-industrial cotton scraps which are turned into pulp. This pulp is combined with wood pulp and utilises the...