Archive: September 2021

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Wired for sound and movement

In the Tapis Magique project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, a pressure-sensitive, knitted electronic textile carpet has been developed to generate three-dimensional...

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Improving outlook for commercial aviation and interiors market

Commercial aviation is on the road to recovery with passenger jet daily flights having recovered to approximately two thirds of 2019’s level, driven primarily by...

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Zoom for assisted reality headsets

Vancouver, Washington, USA-based RealWear is expanding the use of its assisted reality headset devices with Zoom-enabled communications to frontline workers globally at ExxonMobil.

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Armenian producers aim to increase output and exports

Armenian textile and clothing producers are planning to increase production this year with the aim of growing supplies to both the domestic and export markets.

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Device for treating jaundice of new-born or premature babies

A device for the treatment of patients by phototherapy is disclosed by French companies MDB Texinov of Saint-Didier-de-la-Tour and Deltaval of Lyon.

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Surgical suture materials with porous sheaths for drug delivery

Suture materials that facilitate the loading and sustained delivery of releasable components are disclosed by US researchers from Georgia Tech Research Corporation of Atlanta, Georgia,...

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Spiber increases funding to strengthen production and sales network

With an industrial-scale plant scheduled to begin production later this year in Rayong Province, Thailand, bio-manufacturing start-up Spiber, the developer of Brewed Protein materials based...

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Warp knitted synthetic suede launched at IAA Mobility

Shawmut launched a range of premium automotive interior fabrics at last month’s IAA Mobility conference and automotive show in Munich, Germany.

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Changing cross-sectional shapes of flat braided sutures

To enable the manufacture of a textile having more than one cross-sectional shape, methods, systems and devices for changing the cross-sectional sizes and/or shapes of...

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Porsche’s vision of the future with natural fibre composites

Launched at last month’s IAA Mobility 2021 in Munich, Germany, the Mission R concept is Porsche’s latest vision for sustainable, all-electric customer motorsports, including a...

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