3rd Nov 2022
India’s ministry of textiles has cleared 20 strategic research projects worth around ₹74 crore in the areas of agrotextiles, speciality fibre, smart textiles, activewear textiles, strategic application areas, protective gear, and apparel sports textiles on November 1, 2022. The strategic research projects fall under the NTTM flagship programme.
1st Nov 2022
GO Wipes Europe 2022 is set to return as an in-person conference on December 7-8, 2022, in the picturesque city of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Bringing together the entire wipes supply chain, this event is designed through research conducted directly with the industry to explore the latest in science, technology, business, and EU regulations.
31st Oct 2022
The Heat Sealing Module (HSM) from Zund has bagged the Unsurpassed Innovation award at the recently held CAMX 2022 Composites and Advances Materials expo in Anaheim, California. The HSM facilitates the processing and handling of dry fibre materials with thermoplastic content. This new tool helps in the easier processing of these types of materials.
31st Oct 2022
UK’s Pertex, a performance fabric brand, and Cycora, a material made from regenerated end-of-life textiles, will collaborate to make high-performance, woven fabrics from landfill-destined textile waste. This collaboration would be tackling the problem of textile waste, which sees over 70 per cent of clothing either landfilled or incinerated at...
29th Oct 2022
Freudenberg Performance Materials has launched an elastic variant of its flexible superabsorbers for modern wound dressings. Freudenberg will be debuting the elastic superabsorbers at Compamed 2022 in Dusseldorf. The superabsorbers increase the comfort level of patients as well as enable longer wear time, thus reducing the frequency of dressing changes.
29th Oct 2022
The net sales of Suominen Corporation, the global market leader in nonwovens for wipes, were €131.9 million (€98.7 million) in the third quarter of fiscal 2022. Sales volumes increased as did sales prices following the higher raw material prices. Currency impact was significantly positive at €11.1 million. The quarterly EBITDA improved to €5.1 million.
28th Oct 2022
UK-based Nonwovens Innovation and Research Institute Ltd (NIRI) announced that it will continue its investment strategy with major new upgrades to spray bonding capabilities for greater sustainability and better product performance. The institute features complete pilot-scale prototyping facilities for developing novel products and improving existing...
28th Oct 2022
US’ Sensoria Health and Padula Rehabilitation Technologies have announced their collaboration to develop NeurOpTrek, the first and only truly wearable solution for Risk of Fall (ROF) assessment to prevent and rehabilitate patients from fall injuries. Sensoria Health is a developer of wearable remote patient monitoring and artificial intelligence...
27th Oct 2022
The net sales of Kimberly-Clark was recorded at $5.1 billion in the third quarter of fiscal 2022, an increase of 1 per cent compared to the year-ago period, including organic sales growth of 5 per cent. Third quarter sales of the US-headquartered company’s consumer tissue segment was reported at $1.6 billion, registering an increase of 2 per cent.