Archive: April 2025

A fully circular and recyclable mono-material laminated seat cover for aircraft has been launched by a collaboration of Studio ID, TrendWorks, Sabeti Wain Aerospace and…

Albanian investment group Balfin is to open the first franchise store of French affordable family fashion brand Kiabi in Albania, with plans to introduce it…

Passive safety systems supplier ZF Lifetec will launch a new rear seatbelt system in mid-2025.

Toyoda Gosei is trialling smart wear fitted with perovskite solar cells as clothing that can generate power, moving the company closer to commercialisation.

The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum held an exhibition in April entitled What Will We Wear in the Future?

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used a smart shirt equipped with an electrocardiogram to track participants’ heart-rate recovery after exercise and developed a…

Südwolle Group, a Germany-based spinner of pure wool and wool-blend worsted yarns, has opened a new dyehouse, Ninh Thuan Dyeing Textile (NDT), in Vietnam’s Ninh…

Nuream and Z-Polymers have been announced as the next companies to participate in the Product Accelerator for Functional Fabrics (PAFF) 2.

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new type of smart clothing that can track a person’s posture and exercise routine but looks, wears and…

Fibre and fabric production technologies – especially in the area of composite reinforcements – have played an as-yet largely unheralded role in the development of…

Following several years of testing, Lantal’s Digital Deep Dyeing carpet technology is now available for all current Boeing aircraft models.

BrilliA, a one-stop service provider for women’s intimate apparel brands, says it is finalising a manufacturing agreement with Magic Link Garment in Cambodia to expand…

Around 90 civil society organisations worldwide are calling on the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to act…

Researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow, Russia, and the University of Texas at Austin, USA, have presented a proof-of-concept for…

Sweden-based Trelleborg, a developer of engineered coated fabrics, has announced a new knowledge transfer partnership with Nottingham Trent University’s Medical Technologies Innovation Facility in Nottingham,…

The Singapore Fashion Council has announced a strategic partnership with Singapore-headquartered global online fashion and lifestyle retailer Shein for the launch of a new initiative…