#Recycling / Circular Economy

2022-06-02

Foundation partners with Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana to bring the circular economy to the CNMI Sustainable Fashion Awards

Announced today, the new partnership between the Foundation and Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana (CNMI) brings circular design for fashion to the very top of the Italian fashion industry’s creative agenda - starting with the Sustainable Fashion Awards.

The awards provide a unique platform to further highlight how fashion can be redefined through circular design and encourage creatives everywhere to rethink how they can design for a regenerative, circular economy.

Taking place at Teatro Escala, Milan, on the 25th September, the awards, divided into twelve categories, will acknowledge those setting ambitious targets and taking concrete action towards change, with a strong focus on sustainable and circular innovation.

As chair of the jury, Dame Ellen will bring a circular economy lens across all award categories and present the dedicated Circular Economy Award that celebrates leading examples of circular design. It is hoped that the winners will bring the Foundation's vision of a redefined future for fashion to the world stage.

“We are thrilled to be working with CNMI at The Sustainable Fashion Awards. This exciting, global event will highlight the outstanding contributions and formidable efforts of creatives from across the industry. The dedicated ‘Circular Economy Award’ celebrates leading examples of innovation and circular design that can help to redefine the future of fashion, by building an industry that eliminates waste and pollution, circulates products and materials, and regenerates nature.

With CNMI’s network based at the centre of luxury Italian fashion and their work aiming at the highest standards of industrial, environmental, and social sustainability, we have forged a partnership from which the Foundation can bring its vision of a circular fashion industry into the mainstream.

Together, CNMI and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation will salute and award those who are taking circular design directly to the heart of an industry that can help tackle the root causes of global challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution.”

Dame Ellen MacArthur - Founder and Chair of Trustees, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

“The collaboration with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation is an important step for the CNMI and its Roadmap on Sustainability, which has marked the past ten years of the Association’s mission. We are delighted to collaborate with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is the world leader in the transition to that circular economy which we all hope for. The CNMI fully embraces the Foundation’s vision of a circular economy for fashion, putting it at the base of its strategy and involving all the players in the creative productive and distributive system of the fashion industry. An innovative vision for a better future for the planet and for people can only have fashion engaged in full for its achievement.”

Carlo Capasa, Chairman of Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana

This partnership closely follows the publication of the Foundation’s book, Circular Design for Fashion, written in recognition of fashion’s huge potential to shift towards a circular economy and in homage to its creatives who are embracing their role in reimagining products, services, and systems.

If we use circular design to create products that are used more, made to be made again, and made from safe and recycled or renewable inputs, we can drive an industry that becomes part of the solutions to global challenges such as waste and pollution, rather than part of the problem.

Texprocess 2026: Automation, digitalisation and AI redefine textile processing

Making investment decisions in textile processing has become significantly more demanding. Increasing energy costs, a shortage of skilled labour and ongoing geopolitical uncertainties are compelling companies to focus on technologies that deliver clear gains in efficiency and process reliability. This applies equally to apparel manufacturing and to the processing of technical textiles and high-performance materials. As a result, modernisation initiatives are assessed more carefully – even as the need to upgrade production systems continues to intensify.

Techtextil 2026: Between innovation pressure & market reality

From 21 to 24 April 2026, Techtextil in Frankfurt am Main will once again become the central meeting point for the international technical textiles and nonwovens industry. Running in parallel, Texprocess will focus on the industrial implementation of textile processing technologies as the leading platform in this field. Together, the two trade fairs form a closely integrated presentation and working platform along the entire textile value chain – from material development to finished applications.

Between geopolitical pressure and industrial resilience

In this interview, Dr. Janpeter Horn (VDMA) discusses the current challenges facing textile machinery manufacturers, shaped by geopolitical tensions, regulatory developments and subdued investment. He also outlines why innovation strength, integrated solutions and strategic positioning remain key to global competitiveness.

RE&UP contributes to Global Fashion Summit 2026 circularity discussion

RE&UP contributed to the global conversation on textile circularity at Global Fashion Summit 2026 in Copenhagen, where Fatih Konukoğlu, Chairman of RE&UP and Vice Chairman of Sanko Holding, took part in both the keynote session “The New Rules” and the panel discussion “A Reckoning and Renewal for Circular Horizons”, alongside leaders from H&M Group, Looper Textile Co. and Sourcing Journal.

Europe’s textile future at a turning point: New 2030 Circularity Blueprint aims to scale recycling and unlock investment opportunities

The EU textile system is at a critical crossroads. Today, less than 1% of discarded garments are recycled into new garments, despite EU-wide obligations for separate collection. In response, Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) is launching the 2030 Circularity Blueprint, in partnership with ReHubs. This ambitious initiative is designed to support the transformation of the EU textile ecosystem to advance textile-to-textile recycling and drive the transition to a circular economy.

Circulose and CTA announce collaboration to enable lyocell fibers using CIRCULOSE® pulp

Circulose has announced an agreement with China Textile Academy Green Fibre (CTA) to offer lyocell fibers produced using CIRCULOSE® pulp. Producing lyocell from recycled pulp at commercial scale is an important step in making textile-to-textile recycled materials available across a wider range of textile applications.

ITM 2026: KARL MAYER presents new perspectives

KARL MAYER will once again showcase itself as a strong partner to the Turkish textile industry at ITM in Istanbul from June 9 to 13. At Booth 303 A in Hall 3 of the Tüyap Fair Convention and Congress Center, the industry leader will exhibit solutions for warp knitting, warp preparation, and technical textiles – tailored to a challenging economic environment.

STFI highlights textile circular economy and alternative fibres at INDEX™ 2026

From 19 to 22 May 2026, INDEX will invite visitors to Lake Geneva for the world's leading nonwovens trade fair. The Centre of Excellence in Nonwovens at the Sächsisches Textilforschung- sinstitut e.V. (STFI) will be in attendance to present the latest developments in nonwovens research. In the field of the textile circular economy, the STFI will present acoustically effective nonwovens made from chemical recycling residues. The range also includes innovations aimed at replacing conventional raw materials, such as the biobased and biodegradable polymer polybutylene succinate (PBS) and Kendyr as an alternative to cotton.