technology textiles

11th Jan 2023

By using a high share of recycled content in its Evolon materials, German firm Freudenberg Performance Materials (Freudenberg) offers technical packaging textiles with a 35 per cent reduction in carbon footprint. An independent life cycle assessment (LCA) study showed additional benefits such as energy resource savings and lower water use.

11th Jan 2023

UK-based Technical Absorbents Ltd (TAL), manufacturer of washable superabsorbent fabrics, has attained OEKO-TEX certification for its washable fabric technology. TAL has received interest from several companies in the reusable hygiene market looking to create new or improve their current range of period and incontinence products over the past year.

6th Jan 2023

Braskem, a polyolefins producer in the Americas and a market leader and pioneer producer of biopolymers on an industrial scale, has announced the acquisition of Taulman3D, a leading 3D filament supplier of nylon, recycled PETG, and PET filaments to aerospace, automotive, healthcare, industrial, government and higher education professionals worldwide.

5th Jan 2023

Standard Fiber, one of the world’s largest suppliers to the home textile market, and Noble Biomaterials, a global leader in antimicrobial solutions for soft surface applications, have formed an exclusive partnership to bring Ionic+ mineral antimicrobial, which protects against the growth of microbes on soft surface materials, to the home textile market.

4th Jan 2023

Hollingsworth & Vose, a manufacturer of nonwoven materials used in filtration and other applications, will invest $40.2 million to expand its operations in Floyd County, Virginia, the state’s governor Glenn Youngkin has announced. With this move, the company’s facility at 365 Christiansburg Pike Northeast will expand by over 28,000 square feet.

4th Jan 2023

Belgian textile innovator Devan Chemicals will launch Purissimo NTL, a biobased and readily biodegradable allergen control technology, at the Heimtextil trade show in Frankfurt, which will be held from January 10–13, 2023. The technology is based on probiotic encapsulation technology and aims to improve the lives of people who suffer from allergies.

3rd Jan 2023

A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi’s (IIT-D) SMITA Research Lab has developed a technology for the industrial scale production of nanofibres that is superior to the commercial technologies available. The pilot equipment has been validated in an industrial set-up for producing nanofibres at commercial scale.

30th Dec 2022

Jehong Medical Products (BD) Co Ltd, a China-based company, is setting up a new factory in the Bangladesh Export Processing Zones Authority (BEPZA) Economic Zone in Chattogram to double its monthly production capacity to around 8 lakh pieces. The new factory will come up on an area of 21,000 sq ft is expected to start operation by the end of next year.

30th Dec 2022

India’s flexible packaging industry is expected to see a subdued revenue growth of 5 per cent in this fiscal, mainly due to falling raw material prices and lower realisation, according to CRISIL Ratings. The industry could also see a decline in operating margin by approximately 500 bps in 2022-23, compared to a growth of around 18 per cent in 2021-22.