textile technology

6th Apr 2020

Bolger & O’Hearn (B&O) has been designated as a COVID-19 essential service by the US Departments of Defence (DOD) and Homeland Security. Operations throughout B&O’s Fall River, Massachusetts, R&D labs and manufacturing facilities will remain open as the company provides chemistries make personal protective equipment (PPE) and other textile end products.

6th Apr 2020

Barco's Nightingales Foundation (BNF) has announced that it will be donating 350,000 masks to four California hospital organisations that are treating patients infected with COVID-19. In 2008, BNF was founded by Barco's chairman of the board, Michael Donner, and his wife Frida, in hopes of lifting-up the lives of children all around the world.

6th Apr 2020

Mondi’s personal care components team is set to convert a production line at its Gronau plant in Germany to manufacture soft, elastic straps which are being used for face masks by medical professionals and consumers during the COVID-19 outbreak. As a leader in packaging and paper, Mondi is playing its part to produce important supplies and components.

6th Apr 2020

Chargeurs and Noble Biomaterials have launched a strategic collaboration to produce urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) for the healthcare industry. Amid shortages of medical-grade equipment such as face masks and gowns, the two companies are working to enable Chargeurs to manufacture PPE using Noble Biomaterials' silver-based...

3rd Apr 2020

Global textile manufacturer Milliken has decided to use its materials science expertise to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for the health sector amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Milliken's new advanced medical fabrics and barriers complement its breakthrough BioSmart antimicrobial technology used in scrubs, lab coats and hospital privacy...

3rd Apr 2020

Morocco's Lamatem will provide the government with medical textile products, including coveralls, gowns, medical hats and overshoes, to face the COVID-19 crisis, the industry ministry announced recently. The initiative adds to a new program to boost medical equipment production under the National Agency for the Promotion of Small and Mid-Sized...

3rd Apr 2020

Airbus, a European multinational aerospace corporation, has announced that it is supporting efforts globally to tackle Covid-19 crisis. However, Airbus had partially resumed production and assembly work in France and Spain on, last month following a four day pause. At the same time, operations in the UK, Germany and the US continued at normal rates.

3rd Apr 2020

Ernesto Levy, senior vice president, Americas business area and a member of Suominen's executive team, has decided to pursue career opportunities outside the company and will leave Suominen on April 6, 2020. Suominen has named Lynda Kelly, who will act as interim SVP, Americas business area in addition to her role as SVP, business development.

3rd Apr 2020

INDA, the association of the nonwoven fabrics industry that serves companies in the nonwovens/engineered fabrics industry, has announced the three World of Wipes (WOW) Innovation Award finalists. The finalists will present their innovations at the 14th edition of the WOW international conference 2020, to be held from June 22-25, 2020, at Minneapolis.