News

EMP – Rock and Entertainment with Cotton

6. April 2022
Interview with Lydia Kölker, Exclusive Merchandise Products: EMP Merchandising Handelsgesellschaft, with its headquarters in Lingen, was founded in 1986 by fans for fans. It has since grown to become Europe’s number 1 e-commerce company... To the article

APPA becomes twelfth laboratory certified by ICA Bremen

4. April 2022
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... To the article

Recruiting a New Team Member: Cotton Quality Manager

31. March 2022
What the job brings: The Bremen Cotton Exchange has been actively committed to the sustainable raw material cotton worldwide, and for 150 years. With our ICA Bremen laboratory, we are also a global authority... To the article

News from the FIBRE Institute: Foldable Composites with Cotton

24. March 2022
In 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... To the article

26 Members from the cotton community become certified as ICA Bremen Quality Experts

21. March 2022
ICA 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,... To the article

Bremen Cotton Exchange Joins Make the Label Count

7. March 2022
The 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.... To the article