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TFY 2023 – From Optimism to Recession in 2022
Work for The Fiber Year 2023 still is in full swing but recognizable is a similar development to 2020 with natural fiber supply expanding and manmade fibers output shrinking. Declaring …
Scandinavia on the Path to Circularity
With the Climate and Biodiversity Clocks Ticking, Scandinavian and Nordic Companies are Pioneering Innovation Toward Low-Impact, Circular Textile Production As fiber producers search for new ways to transition the textile …
Biochemicals: A Future Path for Textiles Production?
In a world where 96% of products – including textiles – rely on chemical intermediates for their manufacture, the chemical industry urgently needs to find alternatives to fossil-based feedstocks to …
Has Diligence for M&A Deals Gone Too Far?
Investment Banking teams are focusing significant time collecting wide swaths of a client’s company data in the early deal phase prior to marketing the firm in a sell-process. The main …
Historic Decline in World Staple Fibers
Global supply of staple fibers in 2021 accounted for 58 million tonnes which meant for the first time in history losing their majority share in primary spinning stage. This decline …