world textiles research news

12th May 2022

EDANA celebrated its 50th anniversary as the voice of the nonwovens industry with a major event in Brussels recently, the get-together was attended by over 280 EDANA members, policy makers and other stakeholders. The event was an opportunity to honour EDANA’s history of collaboration with its members and highlight how the industry has evolved.

12th May 2022

Sustainable products that solve problems is the theme for this year’s finalists for the World of Wipes Innovation Award that will be presented at the 16th annual World of Wipes (WOW) international conference, which is scheduled to be held from June 27-30, at the Marriott Marquis in Chicago, Illinois. Registration for WOW 2022 remains open.

11th May 2022

Leipzig-based device manufacturer Emtec Electronic will be on site to present the TSA Tactile Sensation Analyzer, a sound-based measuring solution for determining the haptic of textiles and nonwovens at Techtextil Frankfurt which will be held from June 21-24, 2022. The trade fair is expected to draw in thousands of international visitors.

11th May 2022

Bolger & O’Hearn (B&O) team will be onsite at Booth 2906 at Techtextil NA 2022 to introduce the textile industry to the company’s latest innovation, Shell-Tech Dual Action – a Repel-&-Release technology that offers oil repellency, water repellency and soil release. The dedicated show for technical textiles and nonwovens will begin from May 17.

11th May 2022

Michelman will introduce visitors to Unyte water-based surface modifiers for technical textile applications at Techtextil North America, in booth #2405, from May 17-19, 2022, at the Georgia World Congress centre in Atlanta, GA. Unyte helps customers optimise fabric performance, decrease environmental impact, and improve production efficiency.

11th May 2022

With the launch of its HyperX structural analysis software, Collier Aerospace is spotlighting the tool’s real-world application in sizing a 7.4-metre natural fibre composite wind turbine blade. The blade is developed by the Department of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering at Hongik University in South Korea and Samwon Millennia, a software...

10th May 2022

Canadian researchers have woven ‘threads’ of Wi-Fi into fabric as a way of pushing boundaries to further understand how technology impacts lives. A textile Wi-Fi antenna has been created by weaving a conductive material directly into a tapestry fabric. It was conceived as a way to understand human relationship with home routers and the Internet.

10th May 2022

Austria’s Andritz has received an order from Manifattura Fontana to supply a complete neXline needlepunch line for the production of geotextiles to its site in Romano d’Ezzelino, Italy. Start-up of the line is planned for the fourth quarter of 2022. The needlepunch line will cover all process steps from fibre opening to automatic packaging of the...

9th May 2022

Thies GmbH & Co. KG will exhibit solutions for energy, labour and quality in wet processing at Techtextil in Atlanta from May 17-19, 2022. The company will present automated chemical dispensing, heat recovery systems that quickly pay for themselves in energy savings, and the colouration of materials at liquor ratios slightly above the material’s wet...