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Icebreaker US HQ awarded LEED gold certification |
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9 February 2010, Portland, Oregon - Icebreaker, the
Wellington, New Zealand-based outdoor company that claims to have invented the
natural and technical outdoor merino apparel category, today announced it had
received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold
certificatio ... |
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First Crailar sustainable yarns go on show |
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25 January 2010, Salt
Lake City – Naturally Advanced Technologies Inc. (NAT), a company committed to
producing renewable and environmentally sustainable textile fibres, has teamed
up with Patrick Yarns, a manufacturer of high-performance industrial yarns, to
give industry insider ... |
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Unifi partners Polartec in fabrics from 100% post-consumer waste |
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14 January 2010, Lawrence, MA. and Greensboro, N.C. – Polartec
and Unifi have announced a new partnership to introduce performance fabrics
made with Unifi’s Repreve 100, which is made from 100% post-consumer waste from
clear plastic water bottles.
Polartec and Unifi’s c ... |
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Oeko-Tex 2010 Test Criteria |
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11 January 2010, Zurich - Based on a joint resolution
adopted by its 14 member institutes, the Oeko-Tex Association has again revised
and expanded the applicable test criteria, limits and by-laws of the product
certification process as per Oeko-Tex Standard 100 effective 1 January 2010. As
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NAT secures Hanesbrands order for Crailar |
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7 January 2010, Portland, OR - Naturally Advanced
Technologies Inc. (NAT) has received an order from Hanesbrands Inc. to deliver
approximately 10,000 lbs of its Crailar organic fibre the first quarter of
2010.
"This first purchase order supplies Crailar fibre in a
full-scale trial using ... |
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Flax and hemp innovators awarded |
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5 January 2010, Strasbourg - One of the high points of the
recent European Confederation of Flax & Hemp (CELC) 60th Congress in
Strasbourg, was an awards presentation made by Georges Beylerian, President of
Material ConneXion, to members of CELC who have been recognised for their crea ... |
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Copenhagen delegates to walk on Eco2punch Ingeo carpet |
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2 December 2009, Copenhagen – Each of the 15,000 delegates
at the forthcoming United Nations global conference on climate change, being
held at the Bella Center, will stand, walk and rest their feet on an ultra low
carbon footprint Eco2punch carpet made with Ingeo fibres.
The 20,000 ... |
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Henri Lloyd to offer recyclable used polyester garments |
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19 November 2009, Osaka - Teijin Fibers Limited announced
today a program in the marine clothing industry for collecting and recycling
used garments, launched in collaboration with Henri Lloyd, a major global brand
of marine apparel based in the United Kingdom. Recycling will be carried o ... |
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