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Fashion For Good Releases First Blueprint To Cut Textile Manufacturing Emissions By 93%

• By  Textile Excellence
• November 30, 2025

Fashion for Good has unveiled a landmark open access blueprint designed to help India’s textile manufacturing sector move decisively toward near net zero production. The framework, launched under the Future Forward Factory project, provides Tier 2 dyeing and processing units with five practical transition pathways capable of reducing carbon emissions by up to 93 % while also cutting water use and electricity consumption.

The blueprint responds to long standing challenges in the wet processing segment, a stage that consumes massive volumes of water, heat and chemicals. Manufacturers often face complex upgrade costs and fragmented guidance, limiting progress on decarbonisation. The new model consolidates technical interventions, process innovations, and financial feasibility assessments into a single actionable guide.

The initiative is backed by Laudes Foundation, H&M Foundation, Apparel Impact Institute, IDH and several technical experts. Arvind Mills serves as the anchor partner in India. The blueprint outlines technology shifts, thermal energy transitions, water recycling solutions and process redesigns supported by payback calculations and policy mapping. Factories adopting the full suite of recommendations can achieve 93 % emission reduction, 33 % lower water consumption and 41 % less electricity use.

Fashion for Good plans to support selected Indian manufacturers in retrofitting their facilities, in collaboration with Aii. The organisation and Arvind Mills are also exploring the development of India’s first demonstrative Future Forward Factory that will operationalise the blueprint at scale. An industry webinar will be hosted on December 8, offering a structured walkthrough for manufacturers.

The blueprint responds to long standing challenges in the wet processing segment, a stage that consumes massive volumes of water, heat and chemicals. Manufacturers often face complex upgrade costs and fragmented guidance, limiting progress on decarbonisation. The new model consolidates technical interventions, process innovations, and financial feasibility assessments into a single actionable guide.