Purpose The modern textile industry faces major sustainability challenges driven by overconsumption, competitive pressure, and the relocation of production to low-wage countries. Re-shoring textile manufacturing closer to target markets requires advanced manufacturing technologies. While most textile production steps are already highly automated, garment assembly remains largely manual. The integration of a novel, fully automa...

This article evaluates the results of the European criticality assessments for raw materials of utmost importance to successfully manage the European energy transition towards achieving net-zero. Since 2011, the European Commission has published every three years a list in which raw materials of interest are critically assessed with respect to their economic importance and supply risk. These publicly available data are used an...