In our next chapter of SDG Decoded, in which we learn how the denim community is tackling the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, we turn our attention to SDG #7 – Affordable and Clean Energy. According to the UN, about 800 million people in this world still...
About 400 million people lack basic healthcare, according to the United Nations Development Programme, while 40 percent fail to have social protection. Ensuring access to physical and mental healthcare is the driving force behind Sustainable Development Goal #3 – Good Health & Well-Being. For our next...
No man is an island, and certainly no denim company can be in pursuit of a meaningful sustainability mission alone. In the next segment of SDG Decoded, we’re learning how companies are working in tandem to pursue all the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Here, we...
In a development that was wholly unsurprising, we received so many plans from denim companies about Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #12 that we had to break up the responses into two separate posts for the SDG Decoded series. Here we chat with Lucky, Boyish, Saitex, Guess...
According to the United Nations Development Programme, more than half of the world population currently lives in cities, making renewable energy and technological innovation extremely crucial to advancing sustainability. In our next edition of SDG Decoded, we’re digging into how the denim world is progressing with...
In the first installment of SDG Decoded—in which Carved in Blue checks-in with the denim industry to gauge and share progress on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals—we’re bringing the focus to Goal #6: Clean Water & Sanitation. Not surprisingly, this particular SDG is relevant to many...
How should the denim manufacturing industry make jeans by 2025? And what breakthroughs in technology and thinking are needed to make this happen? These will be some of the key talking points at the special session on denim production taking place at the Planet Textiles Summit...
TENCEL™ x REFIBRA™ presents Midnight Blues designed by Pawan Kumar, from Los Angeles, and produced at Saitex in Vietnam. It is widely recognized that in order to realize a circular fashion industry, a new mindset needs to be adopted by the business and society at large....
Though it may have started out quietly changing the denim industry, Saitex is drawing attention and becoming increasingly prominent as one of the sector’s most sustainable facilities. The Vietnam-based manufacturing operation produces premium denim and over-dyed products, with a capacity of more than 6 million...
Industry leaders have come together to create a capsule collection that reveals new depths in denim. Lenzing will present “Midnight Blues” at Kingpins Amsterdam Oct. 25-26, a men’s and women’s collection made in partnership with sustainable fashion designer Pawan Kumar, denim manufacturer Saitex and more than...
Apart from bringing global bluebloods together in one creative place, Kingpins Amsterdam also serves as a place to launch the latest in the denim industry. One such launch set for this edition of Kingpins Amsterdam, taking place Oct. 24-25, is a sustainable denim capsule collection, called...
Saitex CEO Sanjeev Bahl wholeheartedly believes that garment manufacturers and apparel brands can do well and do good for people and the earth. Saitex is a garment manufacturer, specializing in denim and other over-dyed products, based in Bien Hoa, Vietnam, across the Saigon bridge, about 20 miles...