3 Textiles companies making a difference for the environment

Driven in part by an increasing demand for organic products owing to changing consumer lifestyles and the increased significance of agro textiles in more eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable clothing and fashion accessories.

Technological advancements are also expected to drive the market over the forecast period and ramp up the demand for significant research and development investments in the creation of novel products and applications. Here are three companies and the sustainability measures they are steering in the clothing and fashion industry:

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are used in the textile industry for various purposes, such as polyurethane coating and laminating. Now Bluesign, a Switzerland-based solution provider for sustainable textile production, has introduced a management and phase-out concept for critical solvents aimed to significantly reduce use and emissions of carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction (CMR) solvents.

The COVID-19 era has seen a rise in home-made, handcrafted clothing lines and fashion labels, characterised by small runs, high quality craftsmanship, and superb, sustainably produced fabrics.

Such a carefully created product is best served by a bespoke, textile brand logo adapted to the needs of the designer’s product and customers’ wishes. Wunderlabel— https://wunderlabel.co.uk/—labels are indispensable for textile products offering individual logo designs which greatly increase brand's recognition value and proffer product a professional finish.

Strategically placed and matched to the product colour, textile labels are a more sustainable, durable, and high-quality alternative to plain adhesive paper, screen printed, or ink-printed labels.

Consumers now want to know where the down feathers in the garments produced by large multinationals such as Patagonia and The North Face originate. Ethical sourcing of feathers is important because it is only right that the feathers used in products derive from birds that have been treated kindly and without abuse.

“We recognise in today’s world that profiting off some other person or creature’s misfortune or cruel treatment isn’t a worthy profit at all,” the American global leader in auditing and testing IDFL said in a blog post on its website.IDFL says the company puts in the time, energy, and resources to make sure that the filling that goes into blankets, pillows, jackets, coats, and many other garments meets industry standards, and that skills, principles, and processes invested in the ethical sourcing of feathers include traceability measure and on-site audits at parent farms and other sites where birds live are slaughtered.