Archive: February 2022

Singapore-based textile technology solutions company NTX has announced production-readiness of its waterless coloration technology and a first major customer in Adidas.

Dressings, such as bandages or tapes that are extensible so as to conform to a body contour at a wound surface upon stretching of the...

Asia Pacific Fibers, an integrated polyester producer, has become the first manufacturer in Indonesia to have achieved the UV Standard 801 certification regarding its polyester...

An international team of scientists led by the UK’s University of Cambridge have produced a fully woven smart textile display that integrates active electronic, sensing,...

Canadian scientists have developed an inexpensive, non-toxic coating for almost any fabric that is claimed to decrease the infectivity of the virus that causes Covid-19...

Three companies developing plant-based textile fibres sourced from the Philippines have created a marketing organisation to link producers such as themselves with the fashion industry.

Uzbek manufacturer of cotton-cleaning equipment Pahtamash plans to build a plant in Azerbaijan.

Reusable and biodegradable menstrual underwear (so-called period pants) made with viscose fibres has been developed by a researcher working at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

A project launched in December, funded by Eurochambres and jointly implemented by the Union of Manufacturers and Businessmen of Armenia and the Lithuanian Apparel and...

With the market for medical health patch applications estimated to reach US$10bn by 2024, Henkel Printed Electronics and printed electronics specialist Quad Industries are strengthening...

A team of Swiss researchers, together with clinical partners, is developing a new diagnostic tool that can detect the first signs of neurodegenerative changes, such...

Saitex has opened a new fabric mill, located some 40 minutes from its cut-and-sew factory outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

A prototype electrospun insulin-loaded patch that could be stuck comfortably to the inside of a person’s cheek, where it can deliver insulin in a less-invasive...

A team of engineers and veterinarians at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, have embedded the liner of horse slickers with nanomaterials to gauge whether...

US engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a strong, flexible and biocompatible sticky patch that can be easily and quickly applied to...