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Product Overview

Performance Apparel Update is an executive briefing, supplied in digital format. Each month, we report on the latest news from the international performance apparel market.

What's in it?

Performance Apparel Update contains independent research, insight and analysis on product innovations and business developments from the international performance apparel market. Topics regularly featured include:

acquisitions, divestments and mergers
additives
circularity
corporate social responsibility (CSR)
digital printing
dyes
environmental sustainability
fabrics
fibres
financial results
footwear
investments
joint ventures, cooperation, licensing and distribution
new facilities
odour control technology
perfluorinated compounds (PFCs)
recycling
trace technology
treatments and finishes
workwear
yarns

It also contains news from brands, companies, and other organisations, such as: adidas, Alchemie Technology, Archroma, Ascend Performance Materials, Asics, Aquafil, bluesign technologies, Carbios, Coats Group, Columbia Sportswear, Directa Plus, Dow, DSM Protective Materials, DuPont, Eastman, Euratex (the European Apparel and Textile Confederation), HeiQ, Higg, Hologenix, Huntsman Textile Effects, Invista, Lenzing, Microban International, NTX, On, Patagonia, Polartec, Polygiene, Pincroft Dyeing and Printing, Puma, Renewcell, Schoeller Textil, Teijin Frontier, The Lycra Company, Toray Industries (Toray), Under Armour, Unifi, VF Corporation, and ZDHC Foundation.

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

Table of Contents

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATIONS

Asics has developed a tennis shoe which is designed to provide excellent stability and adidas has developed a tennis shoe which is designed to improve pace
The Lycra Company has developed an insulative technology for socks called Thermolite Everyday Warmth
Researchers at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) have developed an e-textile prototype which is capable of charging electronic devices

BUSINESS UPDATE

Financial results: Nike
Software provider Circularise has secured Euro11 mn worth of investment in order to help industrial supply chains adopt principles of a circular economy
Puma has opened a physical retail store in Argentina which is said to be the largest of its kind in Latin America