top fashion models news

27th Apr 2022

Boots, a leader in wet wipes with over 140 different lines stocked across skincare, beauty, baby, tissue and health care categories, has written to its suppliers across the UK and ROI, to remove all wet wipes that contain plastic fibres from its shelves and website by the end of 2022. The company represents up to 15 per cent of face wipes sold across...

27th Apr 2022

Gen 2 Carbon, formerly ELG Carbon Fibre, will be exhibiting at JEC World 2022, from May 3-5, 2022, in Paris, in booth F5, hall 6. It is the company’s debut at the composites show following a management buyout in May 2021. It will be maximising its debut through the introduction of a supremely lightweight 60 gsm, recycled carbon fibre nonwoven fabric.

26th Apr 2022

Directa Plus, an Italian producer and supplier of graphene nanoplatelets based products for use in consumer and industrial markets, has announced that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with a leading worldwide supplier of automotive interiors to Tier 1 manufacturers. The company’s products are used in commercial applications.

26th Apr 2022

Dyper, the responsible diapering company which is based in the US, has announced that 96,535 kg of plastic waste was removed from the environment in 2021 through its partnership with the world’s leading plastic action platform, rePurpose Global. It is the equivalent of 48.2 million plastic bags or 5.3 million plastic bottles removed from the ecosystem.

25th Apr 2022

Researchers from Loughborough University in the UK and the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka have developed a scalable manufacturing technique to create wearable fabrics embedded with very small power generators known as ‘triboelectric nanogenerators’. The techniquecan turn common textile materials into energy-generating textiles using established...

25th Apr 2022

PFNonwovens has opened a new nonwovens specialty line at its centre of excellence in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The line includes multiple A.Celli nonwovens equipment components. The production line, developed with Reicofil R5 technology, is equipped with E-WIND WAVE Master Roll winders and E-WIND SUPER SONIC slitter rewinders with Corematic Evo...

22nd Apr 2022

Germ-O-Guard, established for commercialisation of sterilisation technologies, is launching a crowdfunding campaign to introduce its line of anti-viral and anti-bacterial products to the market. The products are made from materials with self-sterilising properties, making them perfect for keeping surfaces germ free 24/7 and making them safer to touch.

22nd Apr 2022

The next edition of Techtextil will take place in Frankfurt from June 21 to 24, 2022. The return of Italian textile machinery manufacturers to the trade fair after the last edition in 2019 will once again see them in the spotlight. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for special-purpose textiles, especially in the medical and PPE sectors.

21st Apr 2022

The UK’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has proposed that the existing anti-dumping and countervailing measures on continuous glass fibre from China be kept for a further five years. Glass fibres are used in the creation of wind turbine blades as well as in construction and automotive applications including manufacture of electric vehicles.