Dr Hermanutz and Dr Schneck win 2022 DNFI Award

Dr. Frank Hermanutz and Dr. Tanja Schneck, German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF), Germany, have won the DNFI Innovation in Natural Fibres Award 2022. The award-winning project …

NATURALfiberEXTRACTION Congress 2022

AFBW and DITF cordially invite you to the 1st NATURALfiberEXTRACTION Congress on October 26, 2022. Be our guest at Look 21, currently the most modern event location in the heart …

DNFI Steering Committee Meeting 2022

(Updated: January 26 2022) An exciting year lies behind us. The second year with a global pandemic and the direct and indirect consequences for international cultivation and trade in natural …

Microplastic pollution is a global challenge

Microplastic pollution is a global challenge across many industries and sectors – one of critical importance being textiles. A 2021 study by the California Ocean Science Trust and a group …

World Cotton Day 2020

(Update: 17. October 2020) World Cotton Day is on October 7th, 2020 celebrates Cotton. On this day the global cotton community is again going to draw attention to the significance …

ICNF2021 – Smart Sustainable Solutions

Natural fibres are a renewable resource, par excellence, having been renewed by nature and by humans for millennia. Recently, they have drawn tremendous attention of both scientific community and industrial …