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South Korea’s textile and apparel industry is accelerating AI- and robot-driven manufacturing automation.

FashionTech this week: The EU’s PPWR packaging regulation applies from 12 August 2026, and France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the UK have; and EY is creating an ‘AI Value Realization Office’ to centralize AI spending and ensure the…

FashionTech this week: Pakistan’s cotton sector is collapsing under institutional failure at the Pakistan Central Cotton Committee (PCCC); and 3D sampling is shifting fashion product development from physical prototypes to digital…

FashionTech this week: California’s SB 707 and Italy’s new EPR decree are forcing fashion brands to confront textile waste, but the; and PT Globalindo Intimates, a Central Java manufacturer of export underwear for Fruit of the Loom and…

WRAP’s February report and forthcoming EU and California regulations are pushing durability from a marketing talking point into a compliance requirement, with proposed wash-cycle standards as low as five cycles drawing…

FashionTech this week: Covation Biomaterials launched two new bio-based performance materials at the Functional Fabric Fair; and This matters for FashionTech because it gives a concrete current signal to track: The European Union has…

Tunicotex Group, a Tunisian knitwear manufacturer supplying luxury brands like Hugo Boss and Moncler, replaced manual Excel-based planning with Coats Digital’s FastReactPlan.

Re&Up launched Fiber Club, a consortium aiming to accelerate the global adoption of recycled materials within the fashion industry.

Re&Up launched Fiber Club, a consortium aiming to accelerate the global adoption of recycled materials within the fashion industry.