world textiles research news

10th Jan 2019

Technical Absorbents is set to display new SAF superabsorbent fabrics at the International Engineered Fabrics Conference and Exposition (IDEA) 2019, in stand 1241. The event will be held from March 25-28, 2019, in Miami, US. Technical Absorbents, which is headquartered in the UK, manufactures and supplies super absorbent fibre materials, fabrics, and...

10th Jan 2019

The Lenzing Group is expanding its offering of solutions for the cosmetics, hygiene, and medical sectors. Heiko Arnold, chief technology officer of the company, and Jürgen Lehmann, president of Hof University of Applied Sciences in Saale, Germany, have signed a cooperation agreement to utilise a new spun-lacing line for nonwoven applications.

9th Jan 2019

Avgol, a global leader in the manufacture of high-performance nonwoven fabric solutions, will showcase its Forward Innovative Thinking (FIT) family of nonwoven technologies at IDEA 2019. IDEA is a leading event drawing world’s premier professionals in nonwovens and engineered fabrics. It will take place from March 25-28 at Miami Beach Convention...

8th Jan 2019

Park Electrochemical is expanding its aerospace manufacturing, development and design operations at the Newton City-County Airport in Newton, Kansas. The project includes construction of a redundant manufacturing facility next to Park’s existing Newton facilities, in part to support an aerospace customer. This doubles the size of Park’s existing...

8th Jan 2019

A commercial multi-million pillow programme with a major North American big-box retailer, Pegasus Home Furnishings, in which Alexium International Group’s Alexicool products are the key phase change materials (PCM) ingredient has begun. These products have been selected as the key cooling technology for innovative pillows to be developed in the...

8th Jan 2019

With UK-based PPSS Group getting enquiries on use of its cut resistant fabric for applications outside cut resistant clothing, the group wants product designers to think innovatively about the potential uses of this technical textile. Cut resistant fabrics have been developed following injuries to people in industry, homeland security, and extreme...

7th Jan 2019

The startup company, Smartmedic, together with scientists at the Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania have produced a smart life-collar prototype which inflates in contact with water, thus keeping the head of its wearer above the surface. Buddy, the Life-Collar can save lives and may be vital for parents of young children, not confident in...

7th Jan 2019

Scientists from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications have devised a simple, scalable and low-cost capillary-driven self-assembly method to prepare silver nanowires (Ag NWs) coated flexible and stretchable conductive fibres that have applications in wearable electronics and smart fabrics. The paper is to be published in Nano.

4th Jan 2019

The global technology group Freudenberg is strengthening its position in China’s rapidly growing market for filtration solutions. The Freudenberg Filtration Technologies Business Group has signed a contract in China to purchase the majority shares of Apollo Air-cleaner, which is a leading supplier of air and water filtration solutions in China.