world textiles research news

28th Jul 2020

Myant has set up a dedicated laboratory in its Toronto-based facility to develop next-generation connected performance solutions enabled via textiles that sense and react to the human body. The lab aims to bring together experts at the intersection of applied sports science, electrophysiology, engineering, data science, behavioural science, and...

28th Jul 2020

Victrex, leader in high-performance polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymer solutions, has introduced Victrex AM 200 filament, specifically developed and optimised for additive manufacturing. The PEEK incumbent materials available today have been designed for conventional manufacturing, such as machining and injection molding.

28th Jul 2020

The EMS Group, with its companies combined in the EMS-Chemie Holding and globally active in business areas high performance polymers and specialty chemicals, has announced that the company will strengthen its executive management as of August 6, 2020. The board of directors of the EMS-Chemie nominated Dr Christoph Kleiner as member of executive...

28th Jul 2020

LyondellBasell, the world's largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, has announced that Quanzhou Grand Pacific Chemical Co Ltd (QGPC), a fully owned Chinese subsidiary of Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corporation (GPPC) of Taiwan, will use its Spheripol technology for a new facility. The process technology will be used for a 450 KTA polypropylene...

27th Jul 2020

RadiciGroup, an Italian multinational company engaged in chemicals, engineering polymers, fibres and nonwovens business, reported sales of €1,092 million in fiscal year 2019. Company’s EBITDA for the year were €165 million. Investments made in FY19 to further RadiciGroup growth brought the total amount allocated during the 2015-2019 period to €216...

27th Jul 2020

Bicma Hygiene Technologie, which has been part of the W+D Group since 2018, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by expanding its product portfolio twice over. It has developed a new Volcano Kid pants machine for baby pull-up pants, and to meet the Corona crisis and lack of face masks, it designed a new high-speed machine for producing high volumes of...

27th Jul 2020

Inviza, has strategically partnered with kathy ireland Small Business Network (kiSBN) for global brand marketing. Inviza is a technology company which has developed patent pending self-powered / self-recharging fashion wearable technology seamlessly inlaid into clothing, shoes and accessories, InvizaWEAR, to track health and wellness, and GPS location.

25th Jul 2020

With 124 positions and a capacity of around 250,000 tons per annum, Oerlikon Barmag has bagged the largest single industrial yarn order to date from the southern Chinese yarn manufacturer Fujian Billion Polymerization Technology Industrial Co., Ltd. From the end of this year, Fujian Billion will be producing entering the industrial yarn market.

24th Jul 2020

Pampers, the brand trusted to be the #1 choice of US hospitals for more than 40 years, has announced that it will continue its heritage of supporting the happy, healthy development of babies with the innovation of Pampers Preemie Swaddlers diapers designed to support the development of premature infants weighing less than 4 pounds by protecting their...