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Michigan Startup Reimagines Clothing Labels for Recycling and Authenticating Brands
November 05, 2025
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Nov. 5 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news:

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Michigan startup reimagines clothing labels for recycling and authenticating brands

Tags get cut off and tagless labels wear away, but new photonic fibers could serve as permanent barcodes

By Derek Smith

Barcodes woven into fabrics could make clothing and other textiles more recyclable and harder to counterfeit by identifying where and how go . . .

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