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- Performance Days rescheduled for December 2020
- Synthesizer app predicts fabric properties in personal protection
- Unifi reaches 20 billion bottles transformed milestone
- WIPES Academy training course gets virtual option
- Tonello presents range of technologies for garment disinfecting
- Lydall invests in fine fibre meltblown production
- Draft programme for online OUTLOOK 2020
- New sanitisation technology certified to eliminate coronavirus from textiles
Expert Opinion
Adrian Wilson
On the Floor
The new Golden Fleece of fabrics
Forget gold, copper, silver and steel. The hottest commodity of the coronavirus crisis is a little-known synth
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Exception proves the rule in the USA’s PPE shortage
Adrian Wilson
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Observations from the IFAI’s Virtual Smart Textile Summit
Marie O'Mahony
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Events Calendar 2020
- 20-24 June 2020 Frankfurt
- 22-25 June 2020 Minneapolis, MN
- 28 June - 1 July 2020 Munich
- 29 June - 30 June 2020 Paris
Protective
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5th June 2020
Synthesizer app predicts fabric properties in personal protection
According to Coats, the ground-breaking tool enables it to support its customers tailored needs while also saving on the resource of multiple sampling processes...
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5th June 2020
High-speed line makes 1 million low cost masks per day
The new converting line has a speed of up to 150 m/min (492 ft/min) and is able to produce up to 1 million high quality face masks per day ...
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3rd June 2020
Lydall invests in fine fibre meltblown production
With the installation of its new asset, Lydall’s specialty filtration media will enable production of one billion face masks per year... ...
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1st June 2020
Back to school masks from Hygiene Austria
Colourful children’s masks in ten colours added to the product portfolio in addition to the successful production of mouth-nose and FFP2 protective masks...
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1st June 2020
How BYD built the capacity to make 50 million facemasks per day
With the deadly coronavirus raging across the world and a global face mask shortage, BYD mobilized its resources for the production of masks......
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28th May 2020
Myant partners with Canadian expert for dentistry PPE innovation
The types of PPE under development include both washable textile masks intended for support staff in dental practices, and washable textile-based respirators......
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27th May 2020
Ahlstrom-Munksjö ramps up consumer facemask production
Ahlstrom-Munksjö increases the supply of face masks for consumers in Finland together with Teho Filter Oy and S Group......
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27th May 2020
Huntsman and Bao Minh collaborate on fabric for gowns
High-quality medical gowns are essential protective wear for healthcare workers combatting the global COVID-19 pandemic, but these are in short supply worldwide......
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25th May 2020
Why world-wide shortage of facemasks for frontline workers during Covid-19 was inevitable
Johan Berlin, managing director of Investkonsult, headquartered in Sweden, provides unique insight on the worldwide shortage of facemasks......
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25th May 2020
Mondi to make meltblown nonwovens and surgical facemasks
The new lines will have a capacity to produce more than one million surgical face masks (EU Standard Type IIR) per day ...
Latest Comments
Viscose fibres against marine pollution
PETROTECH PROCESSORS. 18th February 2019, 12:07PMWe have viscose short cut fibres in 30 denier in grey color. available regularly for marine use. [email protected] would it be of any further use.
Teijin develops highly modified cross-section crimped yarn
Fazil Khan - Research And Development Manager - BText. NZIM, CText. FTI/ Woolyarns Limited/New Zealand 25th November 2018, 21:00PMWe are a woollen yarn spinner and interested in Solotex Octa fibre. Please advise if you are able to supply 20Kg sample in 1.3dtex - 55mm fibre length for our spinning trials. Our contact details are : WOOLYRNS LIMITED 25 - 27 EASTERN HUTT ROAD, LOWER HUTT WELLINGTON NEW ZEALAND Tel: + 64 4 920 5304 Mobile: +64 21 353 018 Email: [email protected] Website: woolyarns .co.nz
Dragon Silk delivered to medical firm
bob 1st November 2018, 11:58AMlove dragon silk
Highly accelerated biodegradation rate for new synthetic insulation material
john 29th October 2018, 19:53PMThe article announces that "the bio-degradation process leaves behind water, methane, carbon dioxide and biomass." Both methane and carbon dioxide are widely considered undesirable in relation to carbon footprint. Water is OK. This leaves me wondering what the 'biomass' residue is actually composed of chemically, since the original polymer - albeit reclaimed - is synthetic. If this unspecified 'biomass' can still be ingested in an ocean environment, then where is the upside of the equation?
Next generation software for 3D warp knitted fabric simulation
Matt Bauer 23rd October 2018, 19:06PMWhat is the cost of this program and where can i purchase it ? Matt Bauer 423.834.1226