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Retailers New Look and Next to pilot new supply chain platform

The UK Fashion and Textile Association (UKFT) is working with technology companies IBM, Tech Data, and the Future Fashion Factory to design, prototype and pilot a new technology platform to help the fashion and textile industry drive sustainability and profitability through increased transparency within the supply chain. The Sustainable Supply...

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Future Fashion Factory secures 2 million pounds in funding

Industry-led research and development programme Future Fashion Factory has secured more than 2 million pounds in funding for “innovation in the fashion and textile industry” over its first three funding calls. The investment, geared to bringing together industry and academic partners to respond to existing business needs, will fund 13 new...

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Global leaders from MIT visit Hainsworth's mill in Leeds

Leaders from the government, universities, businesses and entrepreneurs from around the world visited one of Yorkshire’s most renowned textile mills last Monday, January 27. Hailing from Australia, the US, Denmark, China and Norway, delegates arrived in the Leeds City Region as part of a programme led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

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Design students inspired by Yorkshire's textile heritage at Future Fashion Factory

Innovative ideas evolving from Yorkshire’s unique textile heritage took centre stage at Future Fashion Factory’s first annual showcase on October 16. More than 100 guests from across the fashion and textile industry congregated at Salts Mill in Saltaire to celebrate the programme’s success in its first year, and learned more about the research...

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Fashion brands and textile mills get 645,000 pound innovation investment

Future Fashion Factory has announced nine fashion brands and textile mills to be awarded a total of 645,000 pounds of investment in new, industry-led research and development as part of the first Future Fashion Factory innovation funding call. The list of brands, which vary from bespoke tailors to fashion brands to Yorkshire’s prestigious mills,...

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Future Fashion Factory adds 100th partner

Future Fashion Factory, an industry-led collaborative project to research and develop advanced digital and textile technologies to transform the sector’s agility in the luxury fashion design process to shift to circular economies, has added its 100th member. The industry-led manufacturer has added Wyedean Weaving Co Ltd, a West Yorkshire mill...