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Alchemie Technology, the company founded by former Xennia chief executive Dr Alan Hudd, has announced a strategic collaboration with Trident, with the aim of using Trident print heads in industrial inkjet applications. The heads will be supplied as part of an industrial inkjet solution through a product line that Alchemie has named Trijetica.
News16 Oct 2014DyStar’s carbon-dioxide emissions actually increased in 2013, the company admits in its annual Sustainability report. But it attributes the increase to a shift in the balance of its production towards a higher proportion of dyes, which involve higher energy-intensive manufacturing than textile chemicals. The company claims it reduced the intensity of emissions in both its dyestuff and chemical manufacture.
Konica Minolta Inc today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Verga IT Srl, the Italian-based distributor of its Nassenger series of digital textile printers. Through the acquisition, Konica Minolta has established Konica Minolta IJ Textile Europe Srl, with headquarters in Bregnano, Como, Italy, and with Akiyoshi Ohno as its president.
Huntsman Textile Effects has introduced an innovative fluorescent whitening agent for brilliant white shades on cellulosic fibres. It says the new UVITEX BHA LIQ high-affinity stilbene whitener has unequalled acid stability and acid fastness, making it a unique complement to most finishing treatments, with no risk of greening-off and superior protection against phenolic yellowing during storage and shipment.
News2 Oct 2014The Oeko-Tex Association has launched the ‘Made in Green by Oeko-Tex’ label as a new level of certification for textiles that are proven to be both safe in terms of human ecology and produced in a sustainable and socially responsible manner.
The USA and Brazil have resolved their 10-year dispute over cotton subsidies, according to reports in the financial media. A formal agreement is expected to be signed today by the US Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, and Trade Representative, Michael Froman, along with their Brazilian counterparts.
News25 Sept 2014Researchers at Netherlands-based Teijin Aramid and Rice University in the USA have received the honorary ‘Paul Schlack Man-Made Fibers Prize’ for corporate-academic partnerships in fibre research. Their new ‘super fibres’ are now driving innovation in aerospace, healthcare, automotive and smart clothing.
