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Key environmental impacts and lower impact options.
Includes the creation of textiles and clothing with a particular focus on the concept stage, while examining opportunities for encouraging early, impactful design decisions.
Encompasses inputs and stages associated with the raw material, through to fabric construction. Textiles refers to greige fabric that is uncoloured and unfinished.
Refers to any process, method or concept that applies colour to a fabric. This could be by traditional dye methods, printing or future innovative concepts.
Refers to any process, method or concept that alters a fabrics aesthetic, performance or both, through mechanical, chemical or biological means.
Covers concepts and technologies during the sampling and production stage, which can facilitate material efficiency and waste reduction.
Refers to companies engaging with the consumer beyond their traditional role of manufacturing and selling product through a growing choice of platforms and media – enabling the consumer to play their part in saving resources and reducing and eliminating waste.
Concepts, technologies and processes associated with product once it has come to the end of its first lifespan. This area focuses on diverting textile waste from landfill for as long as possible, and creating higher values for waste when it has reached the end of its intended life.
Find out about the carbon, water and waste savings possible at each process step of the clothing life cycle.
Finishing & Printing 
Foam Eco Care 
Laser Technology 
Sustainable Water Repellency 
Enzyme Based Textile Finishing 
Ozone finishing 
