John Mowbray

ZDHC will shake up textile wastewater oversight with a risk‑based regime, new water‑use benchmarks and tighter checks on high‑risk dischargers

Swiss textile technology giant teams up with Säntis Textiles, Belgian firm Valvan and Qatar-based Suhail to launch a new franchise model to scale textile‑to‑textile recycling

Survey finds US fashion brands consolidating sourcing but keeping sustainability and social compliance firmly on the agenda, despite tariffs.

Zara owner tightens water‑use limits for core wet processes but relaxes criteria elsewhere under a revamped Inditex Care for Water programme.

For an industry that has spent three years asking whether Shein could ever go public, the answer is now yes — but the terms say far more about geopolitics than about redemption on labour, chemicals or product safety.

High-level discussions in Chile show how countries at opposite ends of the used‑clothing trade grapple with the same structural problems.

New US forced‑labour tariffs have handed Vietnam's Asian apparel rivals a cotton‑fuelled duty break – and left the sector's biggest exporter to America paying more

Lenzing will close historic Tencel lyocell sites in Heiligenkreuz and Grimsby, shift fibre production to core hubs and pivot to nonwovens.

Brussels has switched on the EU's Digital Product Passport Registry, moving the textiles and apparel sector a step closer to mandatory, machine‑readable product data

EU updates how brands should handle existing packaging stock under its new regulation, easing concerns over relabelling while tightening expectations […]