Uzbekistan plans to increase the domestic processing of cotton fiber to 500,000 metric tons by late 2015, the country's Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyayev said. He made the remarks during a conference ...

Fibre52’s cotton technologies earned the ZDHC seal of approval. Since 2021, Houston-based Fibre52 has been working to create eco-friendlier bio-based chemistries that prepare cotton fiber for the ...

Cotton production is a vital component of the global agricultural economy, underpinning the textile industry and rural livelihoods. Recent advances have focused on optimising both yield and fibre ...

The adoption of hemp fibre in the apparel industry is growing, particularly as consumers become more eco-conscious and the green benefits of hemp over cotton are increasingly being touted. In fact it ...

Regenerated cellulose fibre from cotton waste developed by HKRITA and Epson. Credit: HKRITA. After signing a joint development agreement in January 2024, HKRITA and Epson began work on a process of ...

MADRID--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Recover™, the leading materials science company and large-scale producer of sustainable, high‑quality recycled cotton fiber and cotton fiber blends, and Intradeco, a global ...

Cotton fibers elongate rapidly after initiation of elongation, eventually leading to the deposit of a large amount of cellulose. To reveal features of cotton fiber cells at the fast elongation and the ...

Epson and The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles and Apparel (HKRITA) have succeeded in developing new regenerated cellulose fiber with a silk-like sheen from waste cotton fabric through a new ...

Old worn-out cotton clothing can be turned into new fibers for the textile industry using a cellulose dissolution technique. A group of Finnish organizations has launched a project in the course of ...

An international consortium has published a high-quality draft assembly of the simplest cotton genome. In the study, researchers traced the evolution of cotton and fiber development over millions of ...

Catriona Vi Nguyen-Robertson receives funding from the NHMRC and ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Molecular Imaging. Nolene Byrne receives funding from ARC Research Hub for Future Fibres ...