and chitosan, but while R&D may be advancing quickly, so are the challenges around scaling and financing these innovative businesses., which ran Tuesday and Wednesday in London, was a wonderland of invention and creative thinking, with 250 companies taking part across the fashion, footwear and home furnishings sectors.
While there is no shortage of great ideas, companies large and small are facing the challenges of how to scale and bring their prices down. Steven Price, vice president of business development, Europe, at Chargeurs and Nativa, said price is a big consideration, especially for mass and middle-market clients.
in particular, work closely with Söktas, a specialist maker of cotton and cotton-blended shirting fabrics from Turkey. Söktas is a big advocate of this type of agriculture, which treats the soil with care, enables carbon capture, and promotes fertility, biodiversity and water storage capacity. could produce 10 times more than it does currently thanks to the industrial facilities of its supply chain partners.
Lenzing, and others, could not abide the thought of micro-plastics leaching into the glaciers, and knew it could do better. It created an alternative, non-woven fabric made from wood pulp to cover the glacier. When those blankets start to biodegrade, Lenzing plans to recycle them into yarns for clothing fabrics.