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Hygiene and forest products group SCA is integrating its business in South East Asia, Taiwan and South Korea into Chinese hygiene company Vinda, in which SCA is the majority shareholder.

Spunlaced nonwoven fabric producer Jacob Holm Group has announced a new brand for its lightweight hygiene components.

Google has secured a Patent on sophisticated new software for textile pattern optimization – so called ‘nesting – based on fabric orientation and bias characterization.

Nonwovens supplier Suominen has launched Fibrella Move for the hygiene market.

Having raised £13 million in private equity funding, D3O has just opened The Lab—its new global headquarters and dedicated innovation, development and testing centre in Croydon, UK.

Multi-national computer manufacturer Dell is partnering with plastics producer SABIC to introduce reclaimed carbon fibre into its Latitude and Alienware laptops.

Ahlstrom Filtration’s GenCollect and GenCollect Color are two new products designed for the forensics and genomics community that provide an easy and cost-effective solution for the collection of d

Intel has worked with 'sculptural sportswear' label Chromat to create two responsive garments enabled by Curie—a piece of hardware designed to equip designers with the ability to add functions to a

Corbion Purac, based in Gorinchem, Netherlands, has successfully made polylactic acid (PLA) bioplastic resins from second-generation feedstocks.

Graphene-coated fabrics that can detect dangerous gases present in the air and alert their wearer by turning on a light-emitting diode (LED) have been developed by scientists in South Korea.

Casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer Uniqlo of Tokyo, Japan, is adding brain computer interfacing to its retail apparel marketing strategy.

New Zealand-based start-up StrechSense has applied for a Patent to protect an energy-harvesting fabric sensor.

SCA has launched a new diaper called Libero Touch, which involved hundreds of children and their parents in the development and testing, after two years of product research at its innovation centre

Dublin, Ohio, USA-based Cardinal Health, which provides medical products and services to medical institutions, has launched the Hospital Quality at Home brand, a new range of hospital-quality produ

A major chemical manufacturer has announced it is to stop making and selling flame-retardant (FR)-based agents based on hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD).

The Centre for Process Innovation (CPI) of Redcar, UK, and PolyPhotonix based in nearby Durham have developed a wearable electronic blanket that uses printed lighting to administer phototherapy.

Solvay of Lyon, France, reports that its Move4earth project for the recycling of technical textile waste from post-industrial sources is progressing well.

A Swedish biomaterials company says it can now genetically engineer bacteria in order to produce large quantities of the proteins found in a spider’s dragline silk and then use these to make a vari

Gentherm, a manufacturer of thermal management technologies – based in Northville, Michigan, USA – has launched its Atmos mattress via Mattress Firm, a speciality bedding retailer, in select US mar

Daniela Ryf won the women’s Kona Ironman World Championship held in Hawaii on 10–12 October 2015.