CLYDE FUTURE FASHION PARK (CFFP)

Currently over £365 billion of waste clothing is discarded each year, with a further £220 billion in lost revenue due to product markdowns.

Clyde Future Fashion Park (CFFP) will be a large-scale onshore advanced manufacturing facility for UK-based apparel retailers and brands. Led by The UK Fashion & Textile Association (UKFT), the largest network for fashion and textile companies in the UK and Glasgow City Council, CFFP will transform the design, manufacture, re-commerce and recycling of apparel and be an innovation hub for the sector that is sustainable, ethical and commercially successful. It will help to tackle the challenges facing a sector that is recognised as one of the world’s most polluting industries. CFFP is also intended to be a pathfinder for the onshoring and transformation of other major industry sectors important to the UK economy including by delivering carbon, waste and inventory reduction and by creating circular economies. This will drive the formation of a new generation of creative, innovative businesses offering employment opportunities and helping to deliver a supply network with increased resilience. CFFP will return volume manufacturing to the UK for the first time in decades with the aim of rolling out the concept to enable the onshoring of 5% of the UK’s £26 billion fashion sector production requirements. In the UK around 800,000 people are currently employed across the sector.