TENCEL™ is the textile specialty brand under The Lenzing Group that covers textile specialty product offerings for apparel and home. The TENCEL™ product brand portfolio defines a new evolutionary step in terms of sustainability, functional benefits, and natural comfort and caters for distinctive everyday usage...
Part of Bossa’s plan to ramp up the amount of recycled content in its production involves the consumer. The mill recently launched a project collecting used jeans from consumers to recycle into new products. The post-consumer recycled jeans are part of the mill’s new Future...
"Overall, times are tough for denim but that’s not expected to last forever. “There’s definitely a slowdown overall in denim, which is cyclical,” Tricia Carey, director of global business development for apparel at Lenzing Fibers, said. “There’s also clear shifts going on in the supply...
Denim brands are well aware of the hurdles in effective sustainable storytelling. Too much technical information and consumers shut down, while brands that glaze over facts veer into greenwashing territory. Perhaps the solution is visual storytelling....
Denim played a leading role in that awareness. Sustainable denim and sneakers were the most wanted product categories, Lyst reported, as several major players launched eco-conscious initiatives this year. Levi’s continued its sustainable storyline with the addition of denim made from cottonized hemp in 2019. Los...
"The brand’s core ingredients include Tencel, organic cotton, ethical wool, OEKO-Tex mulberry silk and its signature modal fabric made from sustainably harvested beechwood fibers."...
“We should not see all clothing as waste. It can be the start of a new garment,” he said, adding that innovations in pre- and post-consumer recycled cotton and blends with natural fibers and manmade fibers like Tencel are among the newness adding excitement to...
Trims supplier YKK pushed forward with its sustainable material program. The product range includes Natulon, YKK’s environmentally friendly product for zipper tape produced from recycled PET materials and manufactured using less energy, tape made with Lenzing’s Tencel Lyocell fibers, and organic cotton tape....
The Tencel denim team’s new collection, Broadband, represents the wide scope of the many kinds of denim in the market. At Kingpins Amsterdam this week, Tencel debuted the unique project that includes two concepts based on Tencel Lyocell fabrics: Hardwear, a workwear wardrobe inspired by archival...
AFGI introduces the Pure Collection, a line of fabrics made from more responsible sources including post-consumer recycled denim, post-industrial recycled cotton, organic cotton, Better Cotton, hemp, post-consumer recycled polyester, Tencel Refibra and more....
Lenzing and Amsterdam-based denim brand Kings of Indigo are hosting a creative showcase that educates consumers on sustainable production processes this week during Kingpins Amsterdam and Amsterdam Denim Days. The pop-up showcases the Woody Trilogy, a story that demonstrates the fiber production process used to make...
Bastcore is also working on creating a cleaner, more uniform fiber for spinners, but by using green chemistry to dissolve and reform hemp fiber—even the woody bits, which comprise 70 percent to 80 percent of the hemp stalk—in a closed-loop process that’s not unlike what...