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31st Mar 2020

Brussels-based EDANA, the International Association Serving the Non-wovens and Related Industries, recently sent a letter to the European Commission requesting its support in working with member states to ensure all production units where disposable hygiene and medical products are manufactured are kept fully operational in the interest of public...

31st Mar 2020

SGL Carbon, a manufacturer of high-quality materials, posted 4 per cent sales growth to €1.1 billion in fiscal 2019 ended on December 31, 2019. Due to ongoing weakness in market segments textile fibres and industrial applications, business unit CFM (Composites Fibres & Materials) recorded a non-cash impairment loss of €75 million in the Q3 FY19, as...

31st Mar 2020

India has decided to go ahead with the ambitious ₹1,480-crore National Technical Textiles Mission and has planned to implement it through a three-tier institutional mechanism, the textiles ministry said. The mission, which aims at improving penetration level of technical textiles in the country, has a four year implementation period from 2020-21 to...

30th Mar 2020

The Americas Apparel Producers’ Network recently opened an online sourcing centre connecting its supplier and producer members to make masks, gowns and other urgently required medical garments and sewn products. The Industrial Fabrics Association International, which has a partnership with AAPN, is offering the service free to its members and network.

30th Mar 2020

The Industrial Fabrics Association International has transitioned the Smart Fabrics Summit, scheduled from April 16 to 17 in Washington DC, to a fully virtual event with almost the same speakers. It also postponed the Fabricators Conference and Showcase, scheduled on April 30-May 1 in Jacksonville. The new plans for the conference will be announced...

28th Mar 2020

Spirit AeroSystems, US-based designer and builder of aerostructures, has announced that it will suspend Boeing work performed at their facilities in Wichita, Kansas, and in Tulsa and McAlester, Oklahoma. This came after Boeing's announcement to temporarily suspend production at its Washington state facilities. This suspension will last until April 8.

27th Mar 2020

Washington representative Joe Fitzgibbon joined Association of Washington Cities and INDA in applauding governor Inslee’s signing of HB 2565, a law intended to address labelling of certain disposable wipes. The law requires packages of certain wipes to carry prominent ‘Do Not Flush’ labelling to guide consumers dispose them appropriately in the trash.

27th Mar 2020

Seshadri Ramkumar, a professor of chemical countermeasures and advanced materials in the Texas Tech University’s department of environmental toxicology, had invented FiberTect, a three-layer, non-woven decontamination wipe to clean up toxic agents. Researchers now claim that wipe can also be used to clean up bodily fluids contaminated with coronavirus.

27th Mar 2020

Ukraine's Textile-Contact Group has started manufacturing protective gowns, shoe protectors, forearm sleeves and masks at its TC-Style garment factory in Chernihiv. Two more garment factories in Lubny in Poltava region and Korosten in Zhytomyr region will soon join the effort, group founder Oleksandr Sokolovsky recently said in a Facebook post.