world textiles research news

10th Jun 2020

Autoliv Inc, a Sweden-based worldwide leader in automotive safety systems, has announced that the company will promote Kevin Fox to the position of president, Americas and a member of Autoliv's executive management team. The promotion is expected to be effective on June 15th upon the previously announced resignation of Daniel Garceau.

10th Jun 2020

Burlington and Tilley Endurables have joined hands to make isolation gowns for healthcare workers in Canada. For more than 40 years Burlington has produced Maxima line of medical fabrics while Tilley has focused on making quality headwear for the outdoors. Tilley pivoted its idle sewing capacity from hats to medical isolation gowns during the pandemic.

9th Jun 2020

Braskem, the largest polyolefins producer in the Americas and leading producer of biopolymers, is setting up a new global export hub facility in Charleston, South Carolina to serve Braskem's international customers. The facility will provide packaging, warehousing and export shipping services to support Braskem's US polypropylene (PP) production units.

9th Jun 2020

Composites UK, the UK composites industry association, and Fluency Marketing, the advanced materials and advanced engineering focused marketing and conference provider, have unveiled a new international academic conference to focus on the development and application of fibre polymer composite materials across the construction and infrastructure sectors.

9th Jun 2020

Key highlights and insights from 7th edition of INDA North American Supply Report will be revealed exclusively to INDA’s members at two upcoming webinars to be held on June 23-24. The new INDA report found that North American nonwoven production exceeded capacity increases for 3rd year, while nonwoven material trade decreased due to declines with China.

9th Jun 2020

Kordsa, a leader in tire, construction reinforcement, and composites technologies markets headquartered in Turkey, has introduced new fast cure press curable visually fault-free prepreg systems which overcome the whitespot and waterspot problems, with its dicy-free formulation. Kordsa has 170 granted patents and 786 patent applications world-wide.

8th Jun 2020

Alexium International Group's prototype foam mattresses using FR socks treated with Alexiflam NF have cleared independent flammability tests. These tests are required by US federal safety standards in 16 CFR 1633. Alexium is a performance chemicals provider for advanced materials applications with a focus on flame retardancy and thermal management.

8th Jun 2020

Scientists at EPFL have developed electronic fibres which can be embedded in textiles to collect information about body parameters. The fibres help measure subtle and complex fabrics deformations, and through that information about one’s body. The technology uses transmission line theory and can have several applications, such as in health care and...

8th Jun 2020

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has funded the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC)/Transregio 280 Carbon reinforced concrete at Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) and RWTH Aachen University, with €12 million over the next four years. The Institut für Textiltechnik (ITA) also participated in the collaborative...