The Association for the Promotion of Cotton Production (APPA) is Argentina’s leading cotton classing operation established in Avellaneda, Santa Fe. As of 1 March 2022, APPA has become the latest laboratory to be certified under ICA Bremen’s Laboratory Certification Scheme. APPA’s General Director of the Laboratory, Nicolas Buyatti said; “The certification of the (…)
Read moreIn the Thermolink project, the Fibre Institute Bremen e. V. (FIBRE) developed composites with a joint function through local thermal consolidation of textile surfaces using cotton as reinforcing fibre. Certain areas of the textile surfaces are systematically stiffened by the action of heating and cooling of the thermoplastic fibers. At the same time, the untreated (…)
Read moreICA Bremen’s first group of Quality Experts have now been certified under an internationally recognised standard to assist with cotton quality matters. The newly certified experts come from Australia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, China, Germany, Greece, Ivory Coast, Switzerland, Tanzania, Turkey and UK. The Quality Expert scheme is a service provided by ICA Bremen which (…)
Read moreThe Bremen Cotton Exchange has become the latest organisation to join Make the Label Count (MTLC) which is lobbying the European Commission to revise and improve its Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology for textiles. The Cotton Exchange joins organisations such as Plastic Soup Foundation, Changing Markets and Fibershed, as well as luxury brand John (…)
Read moreIn alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol provides quantifiable and verifiable targets and measurements for a more sustainable cotton production. The Trust Protocol is overseen by a multi-stakeholder board composed of representatives from textile producers and trade, civil society, and independent sustainability experts, as well as the cotton (…)
Read moreICA Bremen’s Cotton Classing and Testing Training Course will be held from 10 – 17 May 2022 in Bremen, Germany. The Cotton Classing and Testing Training provides an in-depth learning experience that is tailored to educate participants on quality matters in raw cotton. The course explores issues from the classification of cotton from various (…)
Read moreAt the end of January, ICA Bremen conducted an online workshop tailored for the Brazilian cotton association Abrapa aiming for the improvement of cotton testing procedures. According to Edson Mizoguchi, manager of Abrapa’s Standard Brasil HVI Program (SBRHVI), the goal of the training was to enhance technical procedures as well as the standardization of (…)
Read moreThe Discover Natural Fibres Initiative Meeting was conducted on January 13th. Dr Maryam Naebe, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University, Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Australia, was recognized as the winner of the 2021 DNFI Innovation in Natural Fibres Award. She and her team created a special light-weight nonwoven textile insulator using blended waste and (…)
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