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News5 Mar 2015Euratex-led Energy Made-to-Measure campaign - an initiative for energy efficiency in the European textile and clothing industry – is to intensify due to new collaboration with both the VDMA’s Blue Competence initiative and the Sustainable Technologies project of ACIMIT.
The mattress fabrics sector continues to gain ground. While fabrics were, once upon a time, a fairly plain affair, companies like Culp Inc, based in the US, have shown what is possible in terms of diversification of mattress manufacture. Knitted mattress fabrics, with their two-way stretch properties and design flexibility are becoming increasingly popular.
Downward pressure on fibre prices has been a general global trend in recent months and is being reflected on the bottom line of major producers, even derailing their forward plans. Announcing lower sales in 2014, Lenzing Group signalled the ‘adjustment’ of planned expansions at its PT South Pacific Viscose (Indonesia) and Lenzing Nanjing Fibers (China) subsidiaries, blaming this revision on continued expectations of lower viscose fibre prices.
Suominen is launching Fibrella Perf Spunlace, a new range of aperture substrates for the South American medical markets, at today’s OUTLOOK Plus Latin America exhibition in Sao Paulo. The Fibrella Perf product range offers solutions suitable for traditional and advanced wound care as well as surgical applications.
The cellulose fibres giant Lenzing is aiming to further extend the use of its Tencel fibre through a new micro version of its Tencel A100 fibre type. The new version is designed to meet a number of consumer trends including the desire for smooth, lighter weight fabrics.
Review2 Mar 2015The 5th international conference run by Inkjet Forum India saw the launch of a unique training initiative, designed to help the country overcome its quality shortfall in digital textile printing and raise the level of its technical skills.
News2 Mar 2015Fashion company Filippa K has become the first to apply a new ‘alternative’ water-repellent technology, developed by OrganoClick AB, that is said to be free from fluorocarbons, non-toxic and readily biodegradable. Both companies are based in Sweden.
News2 Mar 2015A University of California-Berkeley researcher is using molecular biology to synthesise indigo dye in a biomimetic process. Assistant Professor John Dueber, of the Department of Bioengineering, a Principal Investigator with the Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley, is studying the natural pathways in indigo plants and trying to mimic the dye-generation process in the laboratory.
