textile technology

3rd Apr 2020

RadiciGroup is set to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to healthcare centres and hospitals to fight against COVID-19. The company has 10,000 metres of fabric, which has passed the lamination test with plastic film produced by the local company Plastik, to produce gowns, caps and shoe covers to protect doctors, nurses, and healthcare workers.

2nd Apr 2020

3M has announced additional details about its capacity increases of N95 respirators, strong measures to combat price gouging and counterfeiting, and new partnerships to help protect its healthcare workers on front lines. Beginning January, 3M has ramped up to maximum production of N95 respirators doubling its global output to a rate of 100 million per...

2nd Apr 2020

International technology Group Andritz has got an order to supply a neXline spunlace line to BCNonwovens, Spain, as a turnkey project to meet growing customers’ demands. The line is scheduled for start-up early in 2021. This new state-of-the-art line will help BCNonwovens better serve its customers and meet the current and changing needs of the...

2nd Apr 2020

A leading Asian large-scale manufacturer of manmade fibres and polymers has invested in a new Oerlikon Nonwoven meltblown system. The recently-signed contract comprises a 2-beam system for manufacturing filtration nonwovens, predominantly for medical products such as face masks, with a nominal capacity of up to 1,200 tons of nonwovens a year.

2nd Apr 2020

India's Welspun Group is switching capacities at its textiles plant in Gujarat's Anjar to manufacture disinfectant wipes and masks to meet the demand-supply gap for personal protection equipment. It plans to manufacture a few hundred thousand masks and wipes in the coming weeks for workers on duty during the COVID-19 pandemic, said its chairman BK...

2nd Apr 2020

According to figures compiled by European Disposables and Nonwovens Association (EDANA), production of nonwovens in Europe has reached 2,782,917 tonnes. This compares with 2,774,194 tonnes in 2018 when annual growth was 1.5 per cent. Despite these two low growth years, European production has recorded an average growth rate of 4.4 per cent over last...

1st Apr 2020

In an effort to fight against COVID-19, Eastman has joined hands with the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC) and Austin Peay State University to support the local production of 10,000 protective face shields for medical personnel in the state capital of Nashville. Based in the US, Eastman is a global leading specialty materials company.

1st Apr 2020

Standard Textile, a leading global manufacturer of healthcare and hospitality products, has restructured its supply chain to provide support for America's frontline medical workers during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The company has increased the production of Personal Productive Equipment (PPE) for hospitals and healthcare workers in the US.

1st Apr 2020

Chemical Process Services, a new specialist polymer design and development company, has come out with a new series of 'green' epoxy curing agents. The Furalkamine range of polymers make up for the withdrawal of conventional Mannich base grades, prohibited in Europe under REACH regulations or due to inclusion of undesirable residual monomers.