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Demetra: Gucci’s innovative green-luxury material
In the year of the centenary of its birth, the Florentine Maison of luxury launches a new sustainable material with luxurious finishes, which it makes available to the entire fashion industry.
Graphene ensures thermal efficiency for footwear and more
Directa Plus S.p.A and Norda are launching the first shoe with a membrane that ensures thermal efficiency, lightness and antibacterial effects.
HAPTEX: why it’s a revolution
BASF presents Haptex, an innovative polyurethane (PU) solution for the production of synthetic leather.
PrimaLoft and Origin Materials develop carbon-negative insulating fibres for outdoor gear
PrimaLoft, an advanced material technology company and a world leader in the development of high-performance insulations and fabrics, will develop the new fibres with the Californian Origin Materials, the world’s leading carbon-negative materials company, to better address demand for sustainable, high-performance materials.
F.lli Morelli, when fabrics know how to dare
A bold proposal that keeps pace with the most cutting edge trends, for the company’s 100% made in Italy fabrics
FLOCUS™ presents its range of kapok textile materials
The Dutch company, leader in kapok textile materials, offers the textile and apparel industry a versatile and naturally sustainable alternative to traditional materials.
Bemberg™: genuine regenerated premium fibre
This is the innovative brand of regenerated cellulose fibre proposed by Asahi Kasei, a highly technological material, with a special aesthetic touch.
Fashion in a ribbon
Perfect equilibrium between technical features and aesthetics with a focus on sustainability in the SS22 collection by Nastrificio Lanza, a company based in Sansepolcro, Arezzo, which has been working with the fashion industry for fifty years
Technical and stylistic innovation
The company from the Prato district proposes a vast range of fabrics that reply to the needs of the fashion industry, as fruit of innovative research and respect for the environment
Fabric House: giving new life to fabric waste
The company from Prato has created the Circular Fabric Standard (CFS), a process of recovery for premium fabrics coming from end-of-life collections, overproduction, or dead-stock, which are given new value and a new market, in full respect for the environment.
Carbon-negative insulating fibre for outdoor, fashion and lifestyle
PrimaLoft and Origin Materials form a strategic alliance to develop high-performance carbon-negative insulating fibre for the outdoor, fashion, and lifestyle markets, but also for home goods applications, such as hypoallergenic insulated bedding
Lineapiù Italia, innovation runs along a thread
Increasingly high performance and innovative materials that reply to the needs of present-day times are at the heart of the research project of the Tuscan company that proposes two new carbon yarns: Shield and Scudo, which were given an aesthetic dimension by the winners of the Talents Lineapiù competition
Adidas invests in the green textile heart of Finland
The sportswear giant acquires 3 million euros in shares in the Finnish company Spinnova, which produces an innovative fibre derived from wood pulp, with a new plant soon to be set up for fibre production from leather waste
Balancing energy and serenity at Première Vision Paris
Fall-Winter 22-23 is a call to emotion and tactility
