PARIS - The furniture industry has a new competitor, one with deep roots in luxury fabrics - historic French home textiles maker Pierre Frey is now making its own furniture. On Friday, Paris ...

Displays such as "How Synthetics Conquered the World" spell out the growth of the cheap and easy-to-produce fabrics, and relates how the homegrown French industry that was reliant on natural ...

Brussels approves French plan to issue grants to encourage investments in the chemical recycling of plastics, including ...

The French government sees the potential for new manufacturing jobs if recycling technology allows it to deal with some of the textile waste currently being shipped abroad each year. Student-led ...