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November 2014

Reinforced PU leaf springs to be mass-produced for Volvo XC90

1 November 2014
Benteler-SGL of Ried im Innkreis, Austria, is producing glass fibre-reinforced PU leaf springs for the new Volvo XC90 sports utility vehicle (SUV).
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Two-piece wearable absorbent article

1 November 2014
A wearable absorbent article for the containment and absorption of bodily exudates is described in US Patent 8 784 395 by Procter & Gamble.
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Spunbond-meltblown-spunbond fabric for single-use scrubs

1 November 2014
Supplier of high-performance fibre-based materials Ahlstrom has introduced a soft spunbond-meltblownspunbond (SMS) fabric treated with "Adaptive" technology to create a fabric for conversion into sing
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Wound dressing for appendage

1 November 2014
A system for delivering a medical dressing onto an appendage, such as a finger or penis, following a surgical procedure has been developed by inventors from New York, USA.
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Absorbent member allows selective absorption of menstrual discharge

1 November 2014
An absorbent member that can be selectively worn by a female is revealed in US Patent 8 777 914 by Kimberly Reaume of Fowlerville, Michigan, USA.
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Completion of Kimberly-Clark Health Care spin-off

1 November 2014
Kimberly-Clark has completed the spin-off of its Health Care business to form a new publicly traded company--Halyard Health.
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Dressing for detecting infection

1 November 2014
A wound dressing or swab for detecting infection is disclosed in US Patent 8 822 173 by Dr Eva Wehrschutz-Sigl and colleagues at the Institute for Environmental Biology at Graz University of Technolog
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Drape for percutaneous procedures in the neck and upper chest

1 November 2014
A surgical drape for percutaneous procedures in the neck and upper chest has been developed by scientists at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
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Antibacterial wound dressing

1 November 2014
An antibacterial wound dressing has been developed by ConvaTec and is disclosed in US Patent 8 828 424.
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New technologies threatening stitches' dominance in wound closure

1 November 2014
The increasing reliability and versatility of adhesive approaches are ushering in a new era of wound repair devices that could one day replace stitches, according to research and consulting firm Globa
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Lenzing presents study on the use of Tencel Biosoft in topsheets

1 November 2014
At Outlook 2014 (24-26 September) in Barcelona, Spain, Austria-based fibre maker Lenzing released the results of consumer tests using Tencel Biosoft, an ultra-soft hydrophobic Lyocell fibre type, in t
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Hexcel to increase carbon fibre capacity in Europe

1 November 2014

Hexcel Corp is to spend US$250 million on new precursor and carbon fibre lines at a production plant in Roussillon, France.

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Researchers demonstrate the worth of fabric circuit boards

1 November 2014
A digital knitting machine has been used by two researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Institute of Textiles and Clothing to make fabric circuit boards (FCBs).
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Self-cleaning coating commercialized

1 November 2014
The Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) of Natick, Massachusetts, USA, has provided technical guidance to an industrial partner, Luna Innovations of Roanoke, Virginia,
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Toray completes construction of French precursor plant

1 November 2014
Toray Industries and its subsidiary Toray Carbon Fibers Europe (CFE) have completed the construction of a plant to produce carbon fibre precursors at the existing CFE facility in Lacq/Abidos, France.
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Chomarat Textiles opens carbon fabric facility in USA

1 November 2014
The opening of a facility to make specialist carbon fabrics in Anderson, South Carolina, USA, has been announced by Chomarat Textiles Industries.
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Robot can coat textiles with silicone

1 November 2014
A project that aimed to reduce the cost of manufacturing hold-up stockings has led to the development of a robot capable of making siliconecoated textiles for medical products, and sports-, fashion- a
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Hewlett Packard certifies nonwoven as a print substrate

1 November 2014
Freudenberg Nonwovens of Colmar, France, says it has developed variants of its hydroentangled microfilament nonwovens (Evolon) that are suitable as substrates for printing with latex inks.
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Drape for neurological surgical interventions

1 November 2014
A surgical drape with particular use for neurological surgical interventions is described in US Patent 8 844 538 by Paul Hartmann.
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Wearable relaxation through neuroscience

1 November 2014

A new company based in Los Gatos, California, is aiming to develop an entirely new category of wearable products based on advanced neuroscience.

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Much stronger fabric circuit boards

1 November 2014
A digital knitting machine has been employed by a team at Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Institute of Textiles and Clothing to produce advanced fabric circuit boards (FCBs).
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History in the making: 3D-printed carbon fibre car in 44 hours

1 November 2014
The new Strati car was 3D printed on-site by by Local Motors during the International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago (September 8-13).
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Evolon ready for print

1 November 2014
Freudenberg's Evolon microfilament nonwovens have been certified by Hewlett Packard for printing with HP latex inks.
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Ten Cate's Factory of the Future attracts funding

1 November 2014
The Factory of the Future - the innovation centre being developed by a consortium headed by TenCate - has been granted a Euro1.5 million development subsidy by the Province of Overijssel in the Nether
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New sensors for early diagnosis

1 November 2014
Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology and the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Japan have developed a semiconductor-imaging biosensing system for analyzing blood and urine
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3D motion tracking for astronauts

1 November 2014
Force and motion measuring shoes - branded ForceShoe and co-developed by Xsens and the University of Twente in the Netherlands - are currently being employed in tests on the International Space Statio
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Natick self-cleaning coating commercialised

1 November 2014
The Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) has provided technical guidance and direction to industry partner Luna Innovations in the successful development of a durable,
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3D printing for the Middle East

1 November 2014
Paradigm 3D has opened the first 3D printing operation in the Middle East, centrally located in Dubai to serve the needs of the region for fast 3D printed parts.
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Funding for semiconducting nanotubes

1 November 2014
SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT), based in Normanton, Oklahoma, has received an SBIR Phase 1 Award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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Smart fabrics for sports fans

1 November 2014
Garmatex Technologies, based Vancouver, British Columbia, is entering a two year supplier agreement with New Era Cap, the brand best known for being the official on-field cap for Major League Baseball
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Kinetic alternative to wall chargers

1 November 2014
Sometimes, the simplest ideas can be the best.
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Capturing kinetics: Pedestrian power

1 November 2014
Brazilian football legend Pele recently opened a first-of-its-kind player-powered community football pitch in the heart of a Rio de Janeiro favela.
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Graphene for stretchable supercapacitors

1 November 2014
Crumpling a piece of graphene 'paper' - formed by bonding together layers of the two-dimensional form of carbon - can yield new properties that could be useful for creating extremely stretchable super
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New plant batteries from old ones

1 November 2014
Thanks to their high energy content, lithium-ion batteries are highly promising for various products - not least, electric vehicles or large-scale energy storage in the electricity grid - in the futur
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Paint-on bandage for wound monitoring

1 November 2014
When the skin is burnt or otherwise injured, part of the body's healing process involves boosting oxygen levels in the damaged tissue.
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Engineered porosity for bones

1 November 2014
Net-Shape-Nonwoven (NSN) technology allows short fibres to be precisely processed into three-dimensional structures and as such is suitable for applications in tissue engineering.
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Cella teams up with Safran for aerospace

1 November 2014
UK company Cella Energy, which has developed technologies for safe and low-cost hydrogen storage involving nanofibres, has entered into a a joint venture with the French multi-national Safran - a comp
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Coating of growth factors on tissue scaffold

1 November 2014
A new implantable tissue scaffold has been coated with bone growth factors that release slowly over time to induce the body to rapidly form new bone that looks and behaves just like original tissue.
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Sensors for early diagnosis

1 November 2014
Researchers at Toyohashi University of Technology and the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology in Japan have developed a semiconductor-imaging biosensing system for analyzing blood and urine
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Sigmatex to invest US$12 million in second US facility

1 November 2014
Carbon fibre textiles specialist Sigmatex will spend US$12 million to build a facility in the John W. Matthews Industrial Park in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA.
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