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🌍 Alpine Group at Asia-Pacific Textile & Apparel Supply Chain EXPO & SUMMIT 2024 (APTEXPO 2024) As the textile and apparel industry’s largest manufacturing hub, the Asia-Pacific region plays a vital role in shaping a sustainable future for fashion. 🌿 Attending @APTEXPO 2024 in Singapore earlier this week, reinforced this essential role. Hosted by the Singapore Fashion Council and organized by MP Singapore and CCPIT TEX Global at Marina Bay Sands, the event centered around the theme “Re-engineering Towards a Resilient, Adaptive, and Sustainable Supply Chain.” With thought-provoking speakers and panel discussions on supply chain resilience, digitalization, and sustainability, here are some of our key takeaways: 1. Globalizing the EU Textile Strategy 🌿 🌍 Dirk Vantyghem, Director General of EURATEX - European Apparel and Textile Confederation, emphasized the need to expand EU textile sustainability standards globally. Aligning international efforts with these standards is crucial for a sustainable future, promoting streamlined practices, reducing environmental impact, and enhancing accountability. This alignment could also strengthen trade between Europe and Asia-Pacific, fostering a sustainable framework for the entire supply chain. 2. Unlocking Frontier Technology and Digitalization 🚀 Deepika Rana COO at Li & Fung, discussed the importance of regional collaboration to transform global supply chains amid disruptions and evolving compliance. Advanced technology—data-driven design, AI forecasting, inventory optimization, and digital visibility—will be vital. Jonas Wand, CEO of FOURSOURCE, echoed this, highlighting AI’s potential to reshape the industry, as seen in real-time, demand-driven models. He noted AI could add $275 billion in profits, though full integration will take time. 3. Increased Investment in Sustainability 🌿 💰 💰 Sunny Huang, Executive Director at New Wide Group, shared insights on the cost of sustainability, stressing that “There are no shortcuts. There are no work-arounds. What is needed to get the job done is money, money, and more money.” At Alpine Group, we are inspired and excited to be part of this movement towards a resilient and sustainable industry. Together, we can push the needle forward. 💪 🧵 🌿 #AlpineGroup #APTEXPO2024 #SustainableFashion #Innovation #SupplyChain #AsiaPacific

🌍 This week, our VP of Advanced Concepts, Lewis E. Shuler II, took the stage at Textile Exchange's annual conference in Pasadena, California, for a breakout session on the Roles and Responsibilities of Material Sustainability Standards. During the session, Lewis highlighted the transformative potential of sustainability standards in driving positive change across materials. He discussed how certifications guide design teams in setting clear sustainability targets, choosing preferred materials and processes, and aligning with sustainability goals. 🎯 Lewis also emphasized the value of certifications in educating consumers, empowering them to make choices that reflect their values. 🌿 A few key takeaways from the 3-day event included: ✅ New regulations are rapidly taking effect, with industry leaders acknowledging the significant impact these will have on supply chains. 🔎 Traceability is more critical than ever, especially with the growing need for digital passports that track product origins and sustainability. ♻ A strong emphasis was placed on recycling and circularity in textiles, as the industry explores innovative strategies to advance climate goals. One thing is clear: We all have a role to play on the path to a more sustainable future. 🤝 🚀 #Sustainability #Innovation #TextileExchange #SustainableFashion #ClimateAction #ParadiseTextiles #AlpineGroup

A big thank you to the Singapore Fashion Council for inviting our Singapore team to attend the AI in Fashion (Supply Chain and Retail) seminar yesterday! 💡 It was inspiring to hear from Fashion AI Hub’s Chief Strategist Bhaskar Vulapalli about how AI is driving innovation across the fashion industry. From enhancing demand forecasting and streamlining design processes to boosting efficiency throughout the supply chain, the potential for industry-wide transformation is enormous! 🚀 While these technologies are still evolving, we’re excited about the potential they hold to improve our operations at every level. AI will also play a key role in helping us more effectively track our sustainability efforts worldwide. 🌿 We can’t wait to explore the opportunities ahead! Stay tuned for more updates! 😉 #AIinFashion #SupplyChainInnovation #FashionTech #Sustainability #AlpineGroup

🌍✨ Alpine Group @ New York Climate Week 2024: Highlights ✨🌍   We had an incredible week packed with inspiring speakers, groundbreaking innovations, and transformative collaborations! Here are the highlights! ✨   🌿 #MajorAnnouncement: In case you missed it, Matter. CEO Adam Root and Paradise Textiles’ Head of Innovation Lewis E. Shuler II announced an exciting collaboration to bring the first microfibre filter for textile manufacturing to market! 🚀Backed by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Green Tech Fund, Regeneration.VC, it represents a major advancement in sustainable textile manufacturing. Read more: https://lnkd.in/g4feGpjp 🔥At World Textile Information Network (WTiN)'s @Innovative Alternative Materials conference, our Head of Innovation, Lewis E. Shuler II, joined Kintra Fibers and BESTSELLER leaders to discuss “Navigating Material Innovation in the Textile Supply Chain.”   Our team also had the privilege of attending several exciting industry events, including:   ☀️ BMW Group’s Climate Week Activation: Breakfast with URBAN X highlighted business’s pushing the boundaries in the circular economy space, with leaders from Levi Strauss & Co., and Eleven Madison Park, emphasizing how consumers can optimize material use in everyday purchases.   👩💼 At the Textile Exchange panels, Sarah Kent from The Business of Fashion discussed reimagining growth in fashion, focusing on how marketing can engage consumers and incentivize sustainable behaviour. The second panel emphasized the importance of collaboration in sustainability, noting how only 14% of C-suite roles in fashion are held by women, highlighting the need for systemic change. 🚀 Newlab’s Innovator Event, was an immersive day filled with innovators, industry leaders, and investors showcasing the latest climate tech advancements. Inspiring stuff! It was great to see a number of low impact material innovators including Kintra Fibers, Werewool and TômTex Inc. participating!    At the The Explorers Club, Dana Davis led a discussion on Moving Beyond Fashion’s Waste To Protect Nature, highlighting the importance of bringing supply chains into the conversation and the need for regulations to give suppliers a competitive edge. The call for collective action remained a central theme throughout Climate Week.   ♻️ Lastly, BlackRock x Ellen MacArthur Foundation roundtable emphasized the growing momentum for circular business practices – with 70 countries and 55% of global businesses adopting circular models.    We left New York Climate Week feeling inspired, energized, and ready to keep pushing forward in our mission to make fashion fit for the future! 💪 🌿🧵 #ClimateWeekNYC #MicroFibreSolutions #ParadiseTextiles #AlpineGroup #Matter #ClimateAction #TextileSustainability #CleanTech #SustainableFashion #GreenTech #FutureOfFashion  

🚨 Big News Alert! 🚨 Tackling the urgent issue of microfibre pollution, Paradise Textiles is proud to announce our collaboration with climate tech leader Matter. to bring the world’s first microfibre filter for textile manufacturing to market!!   🚀 Backed by Leonardo DiCaprio’s Green Tech Fund, Regeneration.VC, and announced during its Annual General Meeting at New York Climate Week - Matter. CEO Adam Root and Paradise Textiles' Head of Innovation Lewis E. Shuler II, took to the stage to announce the news. Matter’s Regen.™ for Textile Production represents a major advancement in sustainable textile manufacturing setting a new standard for our industry. 🌿🧵   Microfibre shedding is a major contributor to microplastic pollution, a significant concern as these tiny particles are now found in our water, air, soil and food sources. Regen.™ for Textile Production offers a ground breaking solution, capable of reducing microfibre pollution across the world’s 150,000 textile factories – estimated to be responsible for 20% of the world’s clean water pollution.   🤝We have spent the last 2.5 years closely collaborating with Matter to explore how they can adapt and scale their technology for textile manufacturing.   Funding early research and guiding Matter’s Microfibre Assessment Program (MAP), to maximize fibre capture across our facilities, we are now excited to announce that Regen.™ for Textile Production will debut at our new state-of-the-art low-impact fabric mill in Egypt by Q4 2025, serving as a showcase for brands and manufacturers eager to adopt this revolutionary device. 🏭🇪🇬   🚀✨Join us in leading the charge toward a cleaner, more sustainable future!   #ParadiseTextiles #Matter #ResponsibleFashion #FashionInnovation #ManufacturingInnovation #TextileInnovation #PollutionPrevention #RegenerationVC

🗓️ TODAY! Don’t miss our Head of Innovation, Lewis E. Shuler II, sharing his insights at 🕓 16:00 UTC during World Textile Information Network (WTiN)'s Innovative Alternative Materials virtual conference! 🔥 Lewis will be joined by industry leaders Alissa Baier-Lentz (Kintra Fibers) and Anders Schorling Overgård (BESTSELLER) to explore “Navigating Material Innovation in the Textile Supply Chain.” Drawing from their successful pilot collaboration, the panel will share real-world insights and actionable strategies for integrating cutting-edge materials into fashion supply chains. ✨ Don’t miss this deep dive into how innovative materials are transforming the industry! 📍 Register now to tune into this game-changing conversation! Here: https://lnkd.in/et5vegrx #ParadiseTextiles #TextileInnovation #Sustainability #Textiles #MaterialInnovation #WTiNInnovate #AlpineGroup #KintraFibres #TextileSupplyChain

Exciting times ahead! This Friday (27th September), at the Regeneration.VC Annual General Meeting, during NYC Climate Week, our Head of Innovation Lewis E. Shuler II, will be taking the stage alongside Matter. CEO Adam Root and Sindre Østgård from Katapult Ocean, for a special deep dive into “Micropollution Matters,” discussing critical climate challenges posed by microplastic pollution.   But that’s not all… 👀   We’ve also got a HUGE announcement 📢 coming that could reshape the future of fashion for good. 🚀 Watch this space! Regeneration.VC is Leonardo DiCaprio’s green tech fund. This event brings together some of the brightest minds and most innovative solutions in the fight against environmental challenges, and we can’t wait to share what’s next. Stay tuned for more updates as we work together to sew meaningful change in our industry. 🧵 🌎 🌿 View the full agenda and get your front row tickets now! 🎟️ #ClimateAction #NYClimateWeek #ParadiseTextiles #Matter #AlpineGroup #Sustainability #Innovation #RegenerationVC

Taking inspiration from Fast Company Innovation Festival NYC 2024! Last week, our team had the privilege of attending the 10th anniversary of the Fast Company Innovation Festival in NYC. The festival’s theme, “The 10 Most Interesting People Over The Last 10 Years,” featured star-studded speakers like Ryan Reynolds, Issa Rae, Jose Andres, Satya Nadella, Pat McGrath, and Lina Khan, offering diverse insights from film, food, tech, beauty, and beyond. From Issa Rae to Lin-Manuel Miranda, the panels were filled with energy, humour, and wisdom. A standout moment was Lin-Manuel Miranda's thought-provoking reminder that “misinformation travels faster than the truth”—a timely reflection in today’s fast-paced world. A highlight was the screening of “Green Champions: How Business Leaders Can Drive and Inspire Climate Action,” showcasing how leaders like Matthias Martensen (Cofounder and CEO, OSTROM), Jayshree Seth (Corporate Scientist and Chief Science Advocate, 3M), and Eugene Kirpichov (Cofounder and Executive Director, WORK ON CLIMATE) are driving sustainability across industries. The takeaway? We must challenge ourselves and others to make connections between our work and sustainability—it’s a mindset we’re embracing at Alpine Group. Kudos to Fast Company for an unforgettable event and for championing conversations that push us all toward a more sustainable future! #FastCompanyInnovationFestival #Innovation #Sustainability #AlpineGroup

We are honoured to announce that Egyptian Prime Minister Mr. Moustafa Madbouli visited Alex Apparels, Alpine Group’s Egypt based garment manufacturing division, during his tour of the free investment zone in Alexandria earlier this month. Accompanying the Prime Minister was Deputy Prime Minister for Industrial Development and Minister of Transport and Industry, Mr. Kamel Wazir, along with Investment and Foreign Trade Minister Mr. Hassan Khatib, Alexandria Governor, Mr. Ahmed Khaled Hassan, and CEO of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI), Mr. Hossam Heiba. The special visit, which garnered wide media attention, saw the Prime Minister and the other dignitaries being greeted by Alex Apparel’s Board Chairman, Mr. Ehab Mohi, and taken on a tour of our Alex 11 facility, where they were able to inspect all stages of our manufacturing process. With over 30 years of heritage in Egypt, we have continued to scale our operations. Our Alex 11 facility as well as our new Paradise Textiles mill, which, once operational, will bring fabric closer to needle, are testament to this fact, underlining our dedication to cutting-edge manufacturing, enhancing our production capabilities and reinforcing our commitment to quality and innovation in the textile industry. As part of the visit, the Prime Minister took the time to speak to members of our production floor team, discussing our soft skills training programs, which include financial health as well as wellbeing initiatives, including breast cancer awareness sessions. The team also discussed our female empowerment projects – notably our Dignity Kits program, which aims to tackle period poverty and reach 250,000 females by 2025. Today, our factories employ 8,500 team members, with around 70% being women and, with our ambitious expansion plans, our team is set to grow. Our “Factory of the Future,” which is due to open in Q1 2025, will represent the future of apparel manufacturing, creating an additional 2,000 jobs for the local community. This further underlines our commitment to economic growth and development in Egypt. The Prime Minister, along with the Minister of Investment and the Alexandria Governor, said they were impressed by our operations and took a group photo with our team members, which was an unusual but welcome gesture. In addition to this honour, our achievements at Alex Apparels, including our collaborations with international brands and our quality garments, were highlighted in a high-level overview video which featured as breaking news on eXtra News Channel six times in one day, underscoring its significance not only in Egypt, but across the Middle East. #ManufacturingExcellence #Innovation #TextileIndustry #AlpineGroup #AlexApparels

This week, our Head of Innovation, Lewis E. Shuler II, participated in a panel discussion, focused on how to make circular systems succeed, at the Future Fabrics Expo in London. During the panel it was highlighted that Paradise Textiles - Alpine Group's material science and innovation hub - is a great example of a manufacturer that’s leading the change and working to lessen or ease the burden of implementation. It was also noted that, as an industry, we often assume that manufacturers as a stakeholder will just do what is needed for a brand, but clearly that has not always worked and it’s important for supply chain actors like Paradise, to be part of the conversation and part of the scaling journey. Lewis E. Shuler II shared examples of how Paradise Textiles is doing its part to be a pioneer in helping to create the collective change the industry needs: Bridging development into commercialization 1.    Innovators and fiber companies have focused on their technology, and we are working diligently to move these fibers into running fabrics and secure agreements with brands to switch to these preferred fibers. 2.    Incremental change is key. We are mindful that adopting sustainable products and practices is a journey, and that with each incremental change, we can help lessen impacts, whilst avoiding disrupting our brand partners’ operations or alienating their customers. 3.    As a manufacturer, we also have recycled fiber targets, so it’s important we are focused on the most progressive brands in this space, as it’s a reflection of our work too. 4.    Sudden, radical cost increases can be expensive and risky, which is why creative costing models across the entire value chain - to share the burden of higher costs - are important. 5.    Our point of view is lead the charge now, before regulations come into play; it’s a scramble for teams at brands to prepare for the regulations, which is why we are doing our part to ensure the supply chain side is set up for success. Textile recycling at our garment factories 1.    As we advocate for mono materials it becomes easier to manage off cuts at the garment factory. 2.    We work with a really high volume of materials that fit this bucket. 3.    Looking forward, we see big opportunities to manage post-industrial textile waste on site and turn it into new yarns, whilst complex blends will rely on our advanced recycling partners. Together, we look forward to making fashion fit for the future. #ThreadingtheFuture #ParadiseTextiles #Circularity