fashion accessories news

25th Feb 2022

US’ W. L. Gore & Associates has unveiled the first Gore-Tex stretch fabric technology for application in defence rain suits. The new product technology is a successful combination of a durable hard-shell fabric with highly breathable stretch components. The suit reduces thermal burden for the soldier and gives at the same time, maximum freedom of...

25th Feb 2022

Autoliv, Swedish leader in automotive safety systems, has joined industry-leading initiative Polestar 0. The goal is to develop a truly climate-neutral car by 2030. The project unites companies across the automotive supply chain to leverage innovation to address the climate crisis and change the view of how to manufacture cars in a sustainable way.

24th Feb 2022

Tentoma, Denmark’s leader in sealed nonwoven roll packaging, has launched an XL Power packaging machine that enables sealed packaging of up to 19-meter-long nonwoven rolls. For the packaging of shorter rolls, XL Power can stretch film for even more products per packaging cycle, which increases the packaging speed. The XL Power replaces an orbital...

24th Feb 2022

Japan’s Teijin has launched a lightweight, strong and cost-effective carbon fibre woven fabric developed with the company’s proprietary tow-spreading technology. The new woven fabric is made with 3K (3,000) carbon fibre filament yarn for applications requiring low weight and design flexibility, such as automotive interior materials and sporting goods.

24th Feb 2022

MP Activewear, born from the leading online sports nutrition brand MyProtein, has launched products with Sweden’s Polygiene in their high-end running range Velocity Ultra as well as their Power Ultra collection. It will cover a number of treated items in high performance fabrics for men and women, such as sport-bras, leggings, t-shirts, shorts and...

23rd Feb 2022

Austrian technology group Andritz will deliver customised needlepunch lines for production of high-quality needlepunch filter felts to Yanpai filtration technology, a Chinese producer of nonwoven filters and woven filter fabrics. The lines will enable Yanpai to achieve state-of-the-art technical characteristics in product quality and line performance.

23rd Feb 2022

Troop Comforts Limited (TCL), a government of India enterprise under the Ministry of Defence, has signed an MoU with the country’s leading research institution IIT Delhi to develop smart protective clothing for the Indian Security Forces. The TCL Group produces Troop Comfort Items for defence and paramilitary forces and has 4 factories in the country.

23rd Feb 2022

US-based firm, Neenah Filtration, has developed a Gessner medium for engine air filters in passenger cars with an improved gradient structure to fulfil these needs. Our A006D medium consists of 100 per cent leading edge cellulose and has a special paper media design – these characteristics lead to an increased lifetime of the filter medium.

22nd Feb 2022

The University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering researchers have found a cost-effective way to apply a silver-based antimicrobial clear coating to textiles. The method uses polyphenols, found in food items notorious for staining clothes such as wine and chocolate. A range of textile types can be treated and items can be washed multiple times.