Features

At Filtrex 2014 in Berlin, Germany (held 1–2 October 2014), Adrian Wilson joined suppliers to the automotive industry and learned about the profound developments that will affect this industry in coming years.

Markets for technical textiles are growing in India, and are ripe for the local industry’s manufacturers to exploit with exports, learned Samuel Joseph at the Techtextil India Symposium (held in Mumbai on 16–17 October 2014).

All around the world counterfeiting is costing industry huge sums of money. Niki Tait reviews some of the technologies currently available to the textile industry to help counteract this threat.

Filter media from leading nonwovens manufacturers, such as Freudenberg and Ahlstrom, are meeting increasingly exacting performance levels in order to comply with the latest demands from end-users, according to Adrian Wilson.

A wealth of experience of the global markets, access to a broad and growing base of technology, and the whole-hearted support of management are the key ingredients for Freudenberg Nonwovens’ strategy to grow in the medical sector, says Nick Butler.

Sider Arc, a family-owned Italian company is pioneering the development of monofilaments that succeed in combining the exacting demands of technical textiles with a concern for the environment, reports Nick Butler.

Advanced finishing, expertise in wool and family-owned engineering companies have all played a role in shaping the unique and specialized nature of the modern Italian technical textiles and nonwovens industry, according to Adrian Wilson.

US Correspondent, John McCurry reviews the state of the coating and laminating industry, finding it to be dynamic, innovative and reaching into every aspect of technical textiles, as well as the lives of all that make use of these materials.

Huge investments in infrastructure and a booming automotive industry are just two of the opportunities in China that are increasingly attracting the attention of textiles and nonwovens manufacturers, according to Editor Nick Butler.

From three-dimensional scaffolds for culturing cells to high-quality filters that can effectively remove blood group-specific antibodies, nonwovens and technical textiles are important materials in modern medicine, writes Adrian Wilson.