fashion accessories news

4th Apr 2018

Siren, a San Francisco-based health technology company, has launched its first Neurofabric –powered product, the Siren Diabetic Sock and Foot Monitoring System. Neurofabric is the first-ever textile developed by Siren, with micro-sensors embedded directly into the fabric, making its sensors completely seamless and virtually invisible to the user.

3rd Apr 2018

R-TECH Materials, UK’s polymer and composites laboratory, is celebrating its tenth year of testing composites for the marine industry. The Port Talbot-based laboratory has worked with several key players in the marine industry including Lloyd’s Register, providers of professional services for engineering and technology and a maritime classification...

3rd Apr 2018

Germany’s leading nonwovens company and a partner of the hygiene industry, Sandler AG, is set to present new developments for transportation, filtration, construction,, and interior acoustics, at Techtextil North America, the fifteenth edition of North America’s technical textiles and nonwovens show, to be held from May 22 to 24, 2018, in US, in booth...

3rd Apr 2018

AGV, marking its 70th anniversary since production of its first helmet, has unveiled the Sportmodular to the North American market, a new standard in the modular helmet category that shatters previous standards of safety, comfort, and design. Search for a perfect helmet almost ends in the Sportmodular, the only modular helmet built entirely of carbon...

31st Mar 2018

Advanced composite materials manufacturer Hexcel has opened a manufacturing facility at the MidParc Free Trade Zone in Casablanca. At the facility, Hexcel transforms lightweight honeycomb materials into engineered core parts that provide structural reinforcement for aerospace applications including aircraft structures, engine nacelles and helicopter...

30th Mar 2018

Protective apparel manufacturer headquartered in the US, Kappler, Inc., has announced that with its recently acquired Woman Owned Small Business (WOSB) certification, the company is providing a new set-aside option to government contractors with its unique product category of chemical and biohazard protective apparel plus specialised fabric technology.

29th Mar 2018

TeXtreme has unveiled the ±45° Grid fabric, a new addition to their line of Spread Tow products. The new version of TeXtreme Spread Tow fabric will broaden the ability to optimise Spread Tow solutions for new applications and markets. TeXtreme Spread Tow carbon reinforcements use spread tows to produce optimised reinforcements for ultra-light...

28th Mar 2018

The consolidated revenues of Pegas Nonwovens for fiscal 2017 grew 7.0 per cent y-o-y to a total of €220.8 million. The rise was related to the growth in sales volumes resulting from the launch of new production capacities. Revenues were also positively affected by the development in polymer prices, which grew by an average of more than 10 per cent...

28th Mar 2018

Metyx Group signs agreement with the Gaston County Economic Development Commission in North Carolina to get a manufacturing facility for its Metyx USA technical textiles division. The site includes 30 acres of land and existing buildings and 12,000 square metres of covered space, in Ranlo, Gaston County, a town approximately 28 miles west of Charlotte...