Amelie Pörschmann wins 2023 DNFI Award

(Updated: Dezember 19, 2023) Amelie Pörschmann a student at Hochschule Hof, University of Applied Sciences, Hof/Kronach/Münchberg/Selb, Germany has won the 2023 Discover Natural Fibres Initiative Innovation Award for the development …

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 …

DNFI Award 2022 – Deadline 9 Sept

Natural fibres offer mechanical strength, low weight, and resilience, as well as renewability and biodegradability, making them ideal partners to high-tech, modern, and sustainable textile applications. The DNFI Innovation in …

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 …

Dr Maryam Naebe Wins 2021 DNFI Award

Dr. Maryam Naebe from Deakin University, Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM), Victoria, Australia has won the 2021 Discover Natural Fibres Initiative Innovation Award. Together with her team at IFM she …

The Great Green Washing Machine Part 1+2

(Updated: March 15 2022) In the first of what will be a series of reports by Veronica Bates-Kassatly, together with Dorothee Baumann-Pauly, she questions the sustainability efforts of fast fashion …