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News25 Oct 2013Sawgrass Technologies has entered a new distribution agreement with MS Srl, in Italy, that enables it to supply the full line of MS digital printers as part of an integrated solution for digital textile production.
News25 Oct 2013A halogen-free, polymeric flame retardant for fibres has been developed by a team of scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Structural Durability and System Reliability LBF.
Archroma, a global leader in colour and speciality chemicals, has been honoured with the ICIS Innovation Award for its ONE WAY sustainability service.
News24 Oct 2013Over the two-day sale this week prices eased across the board, compounded, in part, due to an increase in the US exchange rate. The Australian Wool Exchange’s (AWEX) Eastern Market Indicator (EMI) fell by 0.7% to 1,092 Australian cents per kilo, clean.
News23 Oct 2013On April 24, 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, which housed five garment factories, came crashing down, claiming at least 1,130 lives. Cracks had appeared in the wall the previous day, yet thousands of garment workers were forced to return to work in the factories housed on the upper floors.
News23 Oct 2013Elevance Renewable Sciences, a high-growth speciality chemicals company, has authorised the next stage of its second world-scale biorefinery in Natchez, Mississippi, in order to expand the production of its Inherent renewable building blocks by 2016.
News23 Oct 2013Cotton pre-treated with Gentle Power Bleach, which is powered by DuPont’s enzymatic bleaching technology PrimaGreen EcoWhite, demonstrates a softer, bulkier, more natural handle with less fabric weight loss, according to a new case study.
News23 Oct 2013Hollingsworth & Vose (H&V), a global leader in the supply of industrial nonwovens, is to add NanoWave Filtration Media production capability to its plant in Hatzfeld, Germany, to support the rapid growth in demand for high performance filter media.
Insight22 Oct 2013The global chemical industry is expected to grow from $4 trillion to $5.3 trillion by 2020, according to a 2011 report from Pike Research. And ‘Green Chemistry’ represents a market opportunity that will grow from $2.8 billion in 2011 to $98.5 billion by 2020.
News22 Oct 2013SCS Global Services (SCS) has independently verified Fruit of the Loom's 2012 North American carbon footprint, which will serve as the baseline report that the apparel company uses to monitor and measure its success in reaching its 2015 goal of reducing electricity-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 40%.
News22 Oct 2013Dyneon GmbH in co-operation with InVerTec and the University of Bayreuth has developed a new technology for recovering about 90% of the monomers split from fluoropolymers during manufacturing and ‘up-cycling’ them back into the manufacturing process.
