LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The global textile testing equipment market size is poised to grow by USD 121.52 million during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of almost 2% throughout the forecast period, ...

ZHANGJIAGANG, China (AP) — In an industrial park in Zhangjiagang, a small city on China’s east coast, a large humming and hissing machine feeds on piles of used clothes and sorts them. The novelty? It ...

Engineers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have developed a recyclable polyethylene-based elastic ...

The clothing used to test the machine is more than 1,000 items from a local Goodwill that were donated but didn’t sell. Every year, 11 million tons of textiles – clothing, towels, bedding and more – ...

Polymer-based—or plastic—synthetic materials have a hold on the fashion industry, currently making up about two-thirds of all fibers used in textiles with no signs of slowing down. At the same time, ...

Databeyond's Fastsort-Textile AI sorting machine process synthetic textile at high speed at a textile sorting facility in Zhangjiagang in eastern China's Jiangsu province on March 20, 2026. — AP ...