WELCOME TO TECHNICAL-TEXTILES.NET, the web's most comprehensive source of information about the world of performance and technical textiles. Full membership gives access to: unique feature articles; relevant, edited and verified news; events and more, to keep you up to date with the latest developments in materials, technologies, processes, patents and research, and business and markets

  1. Issues
  2. June 2009

June 2009

Transforming the lives of the silver surfers

1 June 2009
New clothes incorporating electronic functions to improve the quality of life for the active ageing population will be created in a groundbreaking research project launched at the University of Wales,
Read more

Outdoor solar fabrics coming soon

1 June 2009
Power Plastic - the patented thin film solar material developed by Konarka Technologies - is poised for mass production in fabrics for outdoor use.
Read more

Flame protection with head comfort

1 June 2009
Lenzing reports that its FR fibre now has a dominant share in the US market for protective hoods for firefighters.
Read more

British SBRI scheme launched

1 June 2009
British companies are to be supported to develop new products and services in diverse areas such as health, defence, transport and construction through a new GBP100 million government scheme.
Read more

Award for adaptive membrane

1 June 2009
Schoeller Textil's c_change membrane was one of the winners of the iF Material Design Award at this year's Hanover Fair. Pictured receiving the award from the judges for Schoeller is Hans-Ulrich Kohn.
Read more

Health checks for infrastructure

1 June 2009
As part of the Euro10.2 million POLYTECT project, sensor-embedded grids and filters are being developed for use in structural health monitoring (SHM) in geotechnical and masonry applications.
Read more

Bayer starts CNT plant construction

1 June 2009
Bayer MaterialScience AG has started construction of a new facility for the production of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in Chempark Leverkusen, Germany.
Read more

Digital deliveries in Detroit

1 June 2009
Plastic Logic has announced a strategic partnership agreement with the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News, Michigan's largest daily newspapers, to offer a digital content delivery and distributio
Read more

Decontamination wipes patent

1 June 2009
Texas Tech University has secured a US patent for the process used to create nonwoven toxic chemical decontamination wipes, such as its recently-introduced Fibertect.
Read more

Nano-boost for Coats Bursa

1 June 2009
Industrial Nanotech has secured a contract with UK-headquartered Coats Plc, to coat the machinery in the company's yarn dyehouse facility located in Bursa, Turkey, with the thermal insulation and corr
Read more

Nano level mixing without bubbles

1 June 2009
In the arena of high technology and high performance materials, the uniform dispersal of nano-sized particles in substrates such as resin is extremely difficult.
Read more
XXXX