Around the world, an estimated 92 million tonnes of textiles waste is created each year, according to non-profit Global Fashion Agenda, and this figure is set to rise to more than 134 million tonnes ...

In 1954 Finnish entrepreneur Esko Laiho founded a clothing business that produced wool hats. On his sales trips across the country, he noticed that there was a clear demand for uniform production as ...

Finnish consumers are buying more clothes but spending less on their purchases, according to the Finnish Fashion and Sports Commerce Association (TMA). Clothing sales volumes grew a few percent in ...

VTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd. has developed new technology to address the thermal, moisture and technical-flow behavior of smart clothing. The temperature of smart clothing, for ...

Conservation charity WWF Finland and the Nordic fashion industry aim to make desirable clothes with little impact on the environment It is not a brand synonymous with style, but WWF in Finland, a ...

Finnish clothing manufacturer Virke on Wednesday announced plans to close one of its factories with the loss of around 50 jobs. The company cited a 30 per cent slump in sales in the key German market ...

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Having acquired the Finland-based wearable technology company Clothing Plus last month, Jabil Circuit Inc., a nearly $17.8 billion electronic manufacturing service supplier, is committed to forging ...

Petri Alava says his firm can make sustainable fibres on a commercial scale Petri Alava used to wear pressed suits and leather shoes to work, managing large corporations selling everything from ...

Petri Alava used to wear pressed suits and leather shoes to work, managing large corporations selling everything from magazines to gardening equipment. Now he runs a Finnish start-up where socks are ...