Textiles come in endless variations. Historically, product standardization has been the go-to strategy for companies looking to maintain profits. But with digital technology, imagine smaller lot sizes ...

Trevor Goodwin of Andrews, South Carolina, is using an overhead hook on a motorized track to pick up bulging cloth packages and maneuver them into position. He cuts and tears open the packages, which ...

Printing technology is essential for fashion brands. Just as printing on paper has shifted from analog to digital, textile printing in the apparel industry is about to be transformed by digital ...

A new chemical process separates mixed textile waste and produces components that can be reused (Sci. Adv. 2024, DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.ado6827). After their lifetime of use, most discarded clothes ...

Walk into a modern semiconductor factory and you’ll see full end-to-end automated processes. Visit an automotive plant and you’ll watch lines weld and paint without a human touch. But walk into a ...

The United States has a textile-waste problem. In 2017 more than 11 million tons of fabric wound up in landfills, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Though clothing constitutes the vast ...

The textiles sector is one of the early users of nanotechnology processes and products. Within the fabric sector, branding of nanotechnology will be crucial to the incorporation of nanotechnology ...

The textile industry is the most famous industry in Egypt since ancient times. It is also the second largest industrial sector in Egypt after the food industry and plays a major role in shaping the ...

JAKARTA: The government's plan to set up a new state-owned textile firm has raised questions among business representatives ...