world textiles research news

9th Sep 2021

Albarrie, a US-based leader in nonwoven need felts and composite materials for industrial applications, will display its wide range of Tandem nonwoven baghouse filter bags at MINExpo 2021, from September 13-15, 2021, in Las Vegas, US, in booth # 28146. The show exhibits the latest mining and minerals processing technologies with state-of-the-art...

8th Sep 2021

An Indian Institute of Technology Delhi team has developed a modified cotton fabric capable of adsorbing harmful air pollutants from air. ZIF-8@CM cotton and ZIF-67@CM cotton, as these are called, are zeolite imidazolate framework-modified functionalised fabrics that adsorb high levels of organic air pollutants like benzene, aniline and styrene from...

7th Sep 2021

International technology Group Andritz will be presenting its innovative nonwovens production and textile solutions at Index20 in Geneva, Switzerland, from October 19 to 22 at booths 2114 and 2080. Its product portfolio covers state-of-the-art nonwovens and textile production technologies such as air-through bonding, needlepunch, spunlace, spunbond and ...

7th Sep 2021

Ballyclare has been awarded a contract covering PPE for some 3,200 firefighters by three fire and rescue services in the Yorkshire and Humberside region. The contract includes new additions to the Xenon range which have been developed to meet the specific demands of this customer. Xenon range is multi-functional structural firefighting clothing.

7th Sep 2021

University of Gloucestershire and Versarien, an advanced materials group, have joined hands to test the first graphene-enhanced sportswear. The university will carry out the first wearer trial for the clothing. Versarien plans to commercialise graphene in textiles through products that harness graphene’s unique thermal and moisture management...

6th Sep 2021

Jacob Holm, Swiss leader in spunlace nonwoven fabrics and finished goods, has announced that the investment programme, Project Boost, announced in Q2 2020, has been fully implemented for the proprietary Jacob Holm dispersible wipes production line in Candler, NC. Construction and capital expansion began in May 2020, and finished in Q2 2021 as scheduled.

6th Sep 2021

US-based Ashland LLC has signed a definitive agreement to sell its performance adhesives business to Arkema in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.65 billion or 20 times LTM EBITDA. The transaction is expected to be closed by the end of 2021, subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing...

3rd Sep 2021

Oerlikon Nonwoven will be exhibiting at the world’s leading nonwovens trade fair – the Index in Geneva, Switzerland (Oct 19-22) – with one of the market’s broadest portfolios. The Neumünster-based systems constructor will focus on market- and customer-oriented system solutions for filtration, hygiene, medical, geotextile and other industrial...

3rd Sep 2021

Autefa has announced that it is set to supply two complete needle-punching geotextile lines to Confidence Infrastructure, one of the leading engineering solutions providers from Bangladesh. Autefa is a Germany’s solution provider for turn-key nonwovens lines and machines for carded crosslapped needlepunching lines, spunlace lines, and thermobonding...