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Breathability and air permeability--keeping car seats comfy

1 December 2013
Breathability and air permeability are of a totally different physical nature. Nevertheless, both are important for the climatic comfort of car seats.
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Shedding weight is the principal goal for vehicle manufacturers

1 December 2013
Natural fibres and bio-based materials in both composite parts and nonwoven combinations are among current key developments in the automotive textiles field, reports Adrian Wilson.
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New faces and new niche markets promised for IDEA10 Miami

1 December 2013
As the leading exhibition for nonwovens and other engineered fabrics in 2010, April's IDEA will showcase a buoyant industry, which continues to find new end-use markets and attract new international e
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Managed innovation the key to success for the Gore-Tex brand

1 December 2013
Gore says that continual innovation is a key to its success so Linda Foster visited the company and some of its customers and end-users in Slovakia to learn more about how it ensures these development
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Small and flexible is the recipe for success at Innovative Textiles

1 December 2013
Despite owning no manufacturing equipment, the two owners and six employees of Innovative Textiles have built a serious reputation in the development of technical fabrics. John W.
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Saati and Kusumgar combine to exploit Indian, Asian markets

1 December 2013
Growing interest in the Indian markets for high-technology products and a wish to exploit the economic advantages of local manufacturing are behind the cooperation of Kusumgar Corporates and Saati, ac
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How to gain commercial advantage from emerging technologies

1 December 2013
In the final session of an international symposium, industry leaders revealed how they are finding, developing and exploiting a range of emerging technologies, reports Adrian Wilson from the event, he
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How to exploit opportunities from growing end-use markets

1 December 2013
Casting aside the gloom of the prevailing economic climate, delegates at an international symposium learned about opportunities from growing end-use markets and how to exploit them, reports Adrian Wil
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Medical and hygiene textiles benefit from use of superabsorbents

1 December 2013
Shrirang Chinta and colleagues at India's Textile & Engineering Institute - S.B. Mhetre and S.K.
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Issues affecting the greater use of composites in automobiles

1 December 2013
Satish Aparaj and colleagues at India's Textile & Engineering Institute - P.V. Kadole and M.C.
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Fabric testing--a continually evolving science and technology

1 December 2013
With test methods and standards continually evolving to satisfy the demands of the markets for technical textiles, Niki Tait reviews how machinery builders are rising to the challenge of developing ap
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India's focus on technical textiles heightens interest in research

1 December 2013
India's research institutes are focusing more of their attention on technical textiles thanks to the industry's growing interest and the Government's desire to exploit the potential in this sector, ac
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From the air to the land--textile innovations that save lives

1 December 2013
From the most sophisticated ejection seats for modern aircraft to flexible dams to store water for India's farmers, Ian Holme reports from a conference in Manchester, UK, on how textile innovations ar
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India seeks to consolidate signifcant changes of the past decade

1 December 2013
India's technical textiles industry has come a long way in the last few years.
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BMW starts series production of i3

1 November 2013
BMW has started series production of the carbon fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP)-intensive i3 at its facility in Leipzig, Germany.
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Enough nanofibres to cover a building....

1 November 2013
Airbrushing techniques to grow vertically aligned carbon nanofibres on several different metal substrates have been developed at North Carolina State University.
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Optimised acoustics

1 November 2013
Autyl is a new automotive damping product being introduced by Swiss-headquartered Autoneum, which can be employed in various vehicle body areas to noticeably increase acoustic comfort.
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Growing grey zone between health and fitness at Medica

1 November 2013
The Wearable Technologies show will return to Medica - taking place in for Dusseldorf, Germany from November 20-23 - for the fourth time, and with more companies than ever before.
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Collaboration will be key for 3D advances

1 November 2013
Manufacturing using 3D printing technologies holds significant promise in strengthening US manufacturing competitiveness but industry, government and academia must collaborate in key areas says Strata
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Universal plasma goal of new blood filter

1 November 2013
The aim of the Sanguis project, which is being partially-funded by the UK's Technology Strategy Board, is to develop a new filtration technology which can successfully remove antibodies from donated b
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