Pepper Vally® is a Hellenic innovative company that creates e-textile solutions that revolutionalise sports and healthcare sectors MSc Aliki Goritsa and BSc Spiros Fragos are the two textile engineers that created Pepper Vally®, an alternative efficient business model of combining being a brand & manufacturer that for 10 years make it possible to do dedicated…
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Finland, 7 July 2021 – Rester Ltd. is a Finnish recycling company with vast experience in industrial scale recycling solutions and closed-loop business models for textile waste streams. In the summer of 2021, Rester Ltd. will open a brand-new, 3,000-square-metre textile waste refinement facility in Paimio, Western Finland. The new plant will give a significant boost to circularity in the textile…
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Rent, Wear, Return Textiles and clothing are an important sector in the global economy. Clothes are worn by everyone nearly all the time and for many clothes are an expression of personality and identity. In the last 15 years, clothing production has doubled. Fashion has created a significant negative impact to our environment on a…
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Last July, Nasa’s Mars 2020 mission and the Perseverance robot kept millions of viewers around the world in suspense. Among the French know-how on board, the technical yarns of the Schappe Techniques will serve as a heat shield for the capsule during its return to earth, in 10 years. Specializing in the development of technical…
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Germany, 17 May 2021 – Avoiding, reducing and, if there is no other way, offsetting the emission of climate-damaging C02. With this approach, Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH (ZKS) offers its customers a complete service for climate-neutral yarn. According to Beate Wilms, Managing Director of ZKS, a company of the Peppermint Group, “With Go Natural! we are…
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Italy, 05 May 2021 – Five generations of Albini built a company committed to quality, innovation, sustainability and Made in Italy. The Group oversees the whole supply chain: it decided to invest in sustainable processes and materials and launched a digitization process within the company. Albini Group strives to continue its legacy, built over 140…
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If you ever wonder where to find European fashion-tech industry stakeholders or you just want to explore the Fashion-tech ecosystem, the DeFINE network could interest you. Called the Accelerators and Incubator Map, this interactive platform counts many actors, facilitators and collaborations of the industry from around Europe. Focussing on the Fashion-tech community, the map identifies…
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The DeFINE project has as aims to create a bridge between cutting-edge innovations in the European fashion-tech industry. Co-funded by the European Commissions’s COSME programme, this three-year project that started in 2018 benefits the whole fashion-tech community in Europe. The project partners aims to inspire and build stronger and deeper relationships within European fashion-tech community.…
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Digital and clothing. Can these two words go together? Can they change the future of fashion? We met Anne-Christine Polet, the SVP of Digital Ventures at PVH Europe’s corporate start-up, and discussed her project and the future of our industry. Can you give us a short explanation of yourself, your expertise and background? I lead…
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On the occasion of International Women’s Day, we celebrate women who challenge the status quo. Meet Mira Vanttaja and Hanna Virkamäki, founders and designers of Uhana Design, a Finnish clothing brand. Uhana Design was founded from the desire to make perfectly fitting, quality clothing that ‘falls on your body effortlessly’. Hi Mira Vanttaja and Hanna…
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