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Recycling: US firm Circ partners with Indian manufacturer Arvind
Published
September 23, 2025
American textile recycling specialist Circ and Indian textile giant Arvind Limited have announced a strategic partnership. Arvind has committed to integrating the circular materials generated by Circ, thereby helping Circ to secure offtake as it scales.
Circ operates via a patented hydrothermal process that uses heat and pressure with minimal chemicals. The company claims the ability to separate and recover the polyester and cotton that make up polycotton, the most common fabric blend in apparel.
Under the agreement between the companies, Arvind Limited has committed to integrating recycled polyesters and cellulosic fibres (chemically transformed plant fibres) into its offering for five years. This is an important step for Circ, as Arvind manufactures for major brands including U.S. Polo Assn., Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Gap, Izod and Hanes.
“This partnership opens a new chapter in the textile industry, where scale and sustainability go hand in hand,” said Circ CEO Peter Majeranowski. “By joining forces with one of the world’s largest textile players, we are making textile fibres accessible to a wider range of brands and paving the way for circularity on a truly commercial scale.”
In the spring, Circ announced plans to deploy in 2028 a €450 million recycling unit dedicated to polycotton (a blend of polyester and cotton) which will be located in Saint-Avold (Moselle), France.
Together with the Swedish company Circulose (formerly Renewcell), Swedish peer Syre, and the Turkish firm Re&Up (a subsidiary of the Sanko Group), Circ formed in March a lobbying group called the T2T Alliance to represent textile recycling specialists in dealings with European public authorities.
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Published
September 23, 2025
1970s wholesome family television series The Waltons is the inspiration behind sustainable sleepwear and loungewear brand Homebody’s latest childrenswear collection.
And the launch is also marked by a pop-up at luxury department store Harrods which features ‘Mini-Me’ versions of some of the brand’s best-loved adult silhouettes.
Why The Waltons? The series, epitomised by its ‘Goodnight Jon Boy’ catchphrase, “captures the nostalgia of togetherness and bedtime rituals”, we’re told.
The collection, ‘made for moments of calm’ features Homebody’s “special recipe” signature Modal sens fabric, woven using Lenzing’s responsible fibres and made in England and developed exclusively by the brand “to enhance the sleep experience”.
Its palette is split into two moods: Cool & Classic in soft blues, washed denim, and navy stripes and white with styles including the Stripe PJ Top, Wide-Leg PJ Trousers, and The Home Tank; while Warm & Grounded features earth-inspired shades of calico, umber and desert appearing in the Panel Tee and Vacation Shorts.
Also included are the Edwardian-inspired Nightdress and Dusty Pink PJs.
Designed for ages 4-16 years, the collection is available online at homebody.co.uk and Harrods, with prices ranging £165 to £210.
In its accompanying mission statement, Homebody said it has pledged “to help rebuild a manufacturing base in the UK and to forever challenge ourselves on how we do business.
“We are passionate about revitalising the British clothing manufacturing industry, investing in our community and fostering our next generation of talented makers. At Homebody we have a fully traceable manufacturing process that begins with the sustainable Lenzing fibres and finishes with the softest most luxurious Modal imaginable”.
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Turkiye has announced terminating retaliatory tariffs imposed in 2018 on several US imports in response to US tariffs on steel and aluminium imports enacted during President Donald Trump’s first term.
The decision followed talks with the US and consultations within the WTO framework.
Ankara has, however, not retaliated against the US decision in August to impose a 15-per cent tariff on Turkish imports.
The Presidential decree was published in the country’s official gazette.
“Following positive negotiations with the US and consultations within the framework of WTO [World Trade Organisation] Dispute Settlement Mechanism reports, the additional financial obligations applied to imports of certain US-origin products have been terminated,” domestic media quoted the Turkish Trade Ministry as saying.
President Tayyip Erdogan is scheduled to attend the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week ahead of a meeting at the White House with Trump.
Ankara has, however, not retaliated against the US decision in August to impose a tariff rate of 15 per cent on Turkish imports.
Turkiye will continue to work towards meeting an existing goal of $100 billion in annual two-way trade with the United States, it said. Trade volumes between the two countries stood at roughly $30 billion last year.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)
An example of this trade volatility is shown by US imports in Q1 2025 and Q2 2025, when volumes increased 30 per cent year-over-year (YoY) in March but then contracted to -2.8 per cent YoY by June, as highlighted in the latest ‘Fitch-20 Economic Monitor’.
With an average US effective tariff rate of 16 per cent, it expects global trade to slow further in the coming months. At a regional level, export volumes in the two months to June slowed in advanced economies and China but recovered in Korea and Australia. Exports from Mexico, a major trading partner of the US, were flat in Q2, Fitch said in its non-rating action commentary.
The global trade volumes fell in Q2 2025 after a Q1 surge driven by importers front-loading ahead of US tariffs, according to Fitch Ratings.
US import growth slowed from 30 per cent YoY in March to 2.8 per cent in June, with the average effective US tariff at 16 per cent.
Exports weakened in advanced economies and China, while India’s imports rebounded 11 per cent after a sharp Q1 decline.
Import growth slowed sharply in Brazil from 16 per cent in Q1 2025 to 4 per cent in Q2 2025, as past monetary tightening continues to weigh on domestic demand. In India, import volume growth rebounded from almost -13 per cent YoY in Q1 2025 to 11 per cent YoY in Q2 2025, while in Mexico it was flat.
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