textile technology

29th Apr 2022

Andritz saw very favourable business development in the first quarter of 2022. At just under €2.6 billion, order intake reached the second highest quarterly figure in the company’s history, and the order backlog rose to €9.4 billion. Operating result, profitability and net income increased significantly compared to the previous year’s reference period.

29th Apr 2022

Eco-friendly fibres, elastic meltblown nonwovens, and new materials with antimicrobial properties are just a few of the featured topics that will be presented at the international Nonwovens Symposium (INS) on June 8-9 in Lyon, France. Visitors to the INS 2022 can see for themselves a portable device to quickly and reliably test haptic traits.

28th Apr 2022

Cobra, the manufacturer of advanced composite products for the watersports, automotive, marine, and industrial sectors, will highlight recent diversification into new composite markets at JEC World 2022, with exhibits ranging from VTOL drones to carbon fibre prosthetics. JEC will be held from May 3-5, 2022, at Paris-Nord Villepinte Parc des Expositions.

27th Apr 2022

Boots, a leader in wet wipes with over 140 different lines stocked across skincare, beauty, baby, tissue and health care categories, has written to its suppliers across the UK and ROI, to remove all wet wipes that contain plastic fibres from its shelves and website by the end of 2022. The company represents up to 15 per cent of face wipes sold across...

27th Apr 2022

Gen 2 Carbon, formerly ELG Carbon Fibre, will be exhibiting at JEC World 2022, from May 3-5, 2022, in Paris, in booth F5, hall 6. It is the company’s debut at the composites show following a management buyout in May 2021. It will be maximising its debut through the introduction of a supremely lightweight 60 gsm, recycled carbon fibre nonwoven fabric.

27th Apr 2022

Sandler increased both its revenue and number of its employees in 2021. The company generated €365 million in turnover, an increase of 11 per cent. This rate of growth is mainly attributable to the capacity expansion at the US subsidiary Sandler Nonwoven Corporation in Perry, Georgia. In addition, there was double-digit sales growth in technical...

26th Apr 2022

Directa Plus, an Italian producer and supplier of graphene nanoplatelets based products for use in consumer and industrial markets, has announced that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with a leading worldwide supplier of automotive interiors to Tier 1 manufacturers. The company’s products are used in commercial applications.

26th Apr 2022

Dyper, the responsible diapering company which is based in the US, has announced that 96,535 kg of plastic waste was removed from the environment in 2021 through its partnership with the world’s leading plastic action platform, rePurpose Global. It is the equivalent of 48.2 million plastic bags or 5.3 million plastic bottles removed from the ecosystem.

25th Apr 2022

Researchers from Loughborough University in the UK and the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka have developed a scalable manufacturing technique to create wearable fabrics embedded with very small power generators known as ‘triboelectric nanogenerators’. The techniquecan turn common textile materials into energy-generating textiles using established...