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News20 Nov 2013Lingerie specialist Gerhard Rösch has supported the Cotton Made in Africa initiative (CmiA) for the first time with its 2014 fall/winter collection.
News20 Nov 2013PurThread Technologies has obtained a globally exclusive agreement to embed Eastman Kodak Company’s antimicrobial agent into high-performance medical textile materials.
For the first time ever Coca-Cola Company’s PlantBottle Technology, which was introduced to the market in 2009, has been applied beyond its traditional PET packaging applications to create the fabric interior of a new Ford Motor Company vehicle.
News19 Nov 2013At the 2013 annual assembly of staff for the European Commission's Directorate General of Enterprise and Industry several presentations were given to highlight how the textile industry, in particular man-made fibres, nonwovens and technical textiles, can help contribute to “smart, sustainable and inclusive growth” in the EU.
News18 Nov 2013Brands and retailers linked to the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh earlier this year are being urged to sign up to a ‘credible and collaborative process’ for delivering compensation to the victims of the disaster.
News18 Nov 2013M&G Chemicals, one of the largest producers of polyester (PET) resin for packaging applications in the world, is to construct a second-generation bio-refinery in the region of Fuyang, Anhui Province of China, for the conversion of one million metric tonnes of biomass into bio-ethanol and bio-glycols.
News18 Nov 2013V-ZUG AG from Zug, Switzerland, has been awarded the quality label ‘Innovative Technology’ from the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany, for its product Refresh Butler which refreshes textiles without washing while also actively reducing microorganisms.
News18 Nov 2013Texus Fibre, the New Zealand manufacturer of high performance ingredient materials that harness the superb characteristics of natural wool, has developed a dust filtration technology which it believes could become a hit in Asia.
Profile8 Nov 2013All Print Supplies (APS), a leading supplier of materials for the sign, exhibition and display markets, recently formed its new textiles division in an attempt to take advantage of the ‘boom’ in the UK’s soft signage industry, where demand is on the rise.
News8 Nov 2013A new technology for producing acetic acid, a versatile intermediate chemical, used in a variety of products, as well as in the production of PTA , extensively used in polyester manufacture, from syngas has been unveiled by BP.
