Project FAE Seeks to Unlock Post-Consumer Feedstocks for Textile-to-Textile Recycling
| April 27, 2026
Fashion for Good has launched Project FAE—Feedstock Activation Europe
Apparel and Textile Industry Urged to Conserve, Get Lean
The California apparel and textile industry should prepare for several more years of operating under the current electricity and natural gas crisis, according to industry ex...
Seminar Clarifies CBI Developments
The Trade and Development Act of 2000 and how it pertains to apparel manufacturers was the topic of a one-hour seminar that the American Apparel & Footwear Asso...
Sterling Exits Acrylic Business
Charlotte, N.C.-based -based fiber and chemical company Sterling Chemicals Inc. announced it is shuttering its acrylic fiber commodity textile program after a series of cost reduction program...
Local Reps See Temporary Delays After India Quake
Fabric shipments from India have been delayed due to lost production and disruptions in the supply chain in the wake of the Jan. 26 earthquake in the Indian state of Gujarat, but Los Angeles-based tex...
Second Generation Combines Labels
Los Angeles-based junior and children’s apparel manufacturer Second Generation has just merged its two junior and kids labels, Second Generation and Bebop....
High Gas Prices Force Garment Industry Laundry to Shutter Anaheim Facility
The recent natural gas crisis that has raised some companies’ utility prices 400 percent and has already claimed a highly visible casualty—L.A. Dye & Print Works—is also affecting ...
Technology Helps L.A. Dye & Wash Stay Afloat
Los Angeles-based garment dye house Los Angeles Dye & Wash Co. Inc. counts limited competition and energy-efficient machinery with helping the company weather the current energy crisis....
Denim Mills Continue to Look to Mexico
The past 10 years has seen a shift in a large portion of California production to Mexico and the manufacturers of jeans have been a significant part of that shift....
YMLA Scouts for New Juniors in Wake of Pacific Coast Merger
Los Angeles-based young men’s apparel company YMLA is looking for small companies for possible acquisition in the wake of its recent announcement to merge with Pacific Coast Apparel C...
Paul Frank Adds More Stores, Licenses Sunwear
Newport Beach, Calif.-based accessories and junior apparel manufacturer Paul Frank Industries has opened its second retail store in the Haight district of San Francisco. A store opening party is plan...
Lycra and Tactel Trends
Elegance and self-expression are key for 2002 The elegance of the 1920s combined with the 1960s-inspired celebration of self-expression will co-exist in summer 2002—at least in the r...
Changes to L.A. Business Tax Proposed
Representatives from several businesses in downtown Los Angeles had the opportunity to voice their concerns about the current business tax system to city officials at a meeting hosted by the...
Sutter's Jeans Maker Moves to Sausalito, Opens D.C. in Laredo
South San Francisco-based denim manufacturer San Francisco Jean Company, which produces the Sutter’s and Laura C. denim labels, recently announced plans to move the company’s ...
L.A. Dye & Print: Closure Could Be First of Several
News that one of Southern California’s largest dye houses, Pico Rivera, Calif.-based L.A. Dye & Print Works, will be closing its doors in the face of escalating natural gas prices has some...
Charlie Rocket Revamps Girls Line
Los Angeles-based children’s manufacturer Charlie Rocket will re-launch its girls’ clothing line for Fall 2001 at the New York’s ENK show in March. The collection continues its classic childre...
