Ambitious Vision for Man-made Cellulosic Fibres - Promises Greater Resilience for Global Textile Industry

As COVID-19 continues to impact textile producers and buyers, a new report from international sustainability non-profits, Forum for the Future and Textile Exchange, highlights the huge potential of man-made cellulosic fibres (MMCF)—including viscose, modal and lyocell—to create a more sustainable future, and outlines an ambitious sector-wide vision that could revolutionize the textile and apparel industry, with implications for a wide variety of other industries from health to personal care.

With COVID-19 and climate change causing lasting disruption in the textile and apparel industry, the most significant industry players and stakeholders in the man-made cellulosic fibres (MMCF) value chain have revealed an ambitious shared vision for unleashing the fibres’ huge untapped potential for building resilience in the global textile industry.

The MMCF 2030 Vision aims to provide a shared vision to drive the sector towards collectively putting more back into the environment and society than it takes out—from source to finished product. It was built by the sector through an extensive participative process engaging over 50 stakeholders from more than 40 organizations representing views from across the MMCF value chain. It is not intended as a formal commitment document or standard against which organizations will be measured. Instead, it seeks to serve as a set of guiding principles to inform how existing standards and practices must move at an accelerated pace, and towards which truly pioneering organizations can lead the sector to go further, faster. The vision complements existing standards by challenging actors to look beyond what might be possible now—a call to action that seeks to stimulate new kinds of partnerships and forms of cross-sector collaboration to ensure that MMCF can reach its full potential as a sustainable fibre.