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Home Textiles Update
Issue 141: September 2023

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Product Overview   

Home Textiles Update is an executive briefing, supplied in digital format. Each month, we report on the latest news from the international home textiles and contract market.
What's in it?

Home Textiles Update contains independent research, insight and analysis on product innovations and business developments from the international home textiles and contract market. Topics regularly featured include:

  • acquisitions, divestments and mergers
  • additives
  • artificial leather materials
  • bedding
  • carpet tiles
  • circularity
  • colour and design trends
  • corporate social responsibility (CSR)
  • cotton
  • down
  • dyes
  • environmental sustainability
  • fibres
  • financial results
  • flocking
  • investments
  • joint ventures, cooperation, licensing and distribution
  • mattresses
  • new facilities
  • trace technology
  • treatments and finishes
  • upholstery fabrics
  • yarns

It also contains news from brands, companies, and other organisations, such as: Altun Tekstil, Archroma, Ascend Performance Materials, Aquafil, bluesign technologies, Eastman, Ethan Allen, Euratex (the European Apparel and Textile Confederation), HeiQ, Higg, Hologenix, Huntsman Textile Effects, Lenzing, Microban International, Pantone, Precision Textiles, Renewcell, Sanderson Design Group, Standard Fiber, Tarkett, Teijin Frontier, The TJX Companies, Tempur Sealy, Welspun India, and ZDHC Foundation.

Like all Textiles Intelligence publications, Home Textiles Update is a reliable source of independently sourced business information, and it does not carry advertising.

Contents

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATIONS

  • Cotton Incorporated has developed a treated cotton fabric called RESTech Cotton which is designed to be used in the manufacture of bed sheets
  • Devan Chemicals has expanded its range of microencapsulated active ingredients for application to fabrics
  • Messe Frankfurt has announced the Heimtextil design theme and trends for 2024/25

BUSINESS UPDATE

  • Spinnova has announced plans to review its existing corporate strategy in order to generate positive cash flows
  • The TJX Companies: net sales in the second quarter of 2023/24 were up by 8%
  • Williams-Sonoma: net sales in the second quarter of 2023/24 were down by 12.9
  • MycoWorks plans to open its first commercial-scale plant for producing Reishi bio-based artificial leather material