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TenCate's UK armour acquisition

1 March 2010
Royal Ten Cate of The Netherlands will acquire AML UK--an armour company based in Swindon, UK, which generates sales of about GBP10 million a year.
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Optimize workwear's skin contact to win wearer's acceptance

1 March 2010
Whatever its functionality, workwear (and in even more extreme cases, protective wear) is of no value if it is not worn.
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Textile machinery

1 March 2010
Karl Mayer will take part at this year's JEC Composite Show from 13-15 April 2010.
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Lenzing boosts capacity in Asia

1 March 2010
Lenzing Subsidiary PT South Pacific Viscose (SPV), located in Purwakarta, has begun its first trials on a new fourth production line.
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Glatfelter to buy airlaid nonwovens manufacturer Concert

1 March 2010
Glatfelter has completed its acquisition of Concert Industries from Brookfield Special Situations Management--a venture capital firm with offices in Brazil, Canada, the UK and the USA.
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Partnership to provide water purification filters

1 February 2010
Water filtration equipment employing nanofibre membranes is to be developed by the National University of Singapore (NUS) with the help of Elmarco.
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Nanoparticle partners

1 February 2010
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and BASF have founded IP3 (innovative products, intelligent particles, integrated processes) - a joint laboratory to develop process technology for explorin
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Nano-Tex moves R&D to Hong Kong

1 February 2010
Nano-Tex will open a new research and development centre in Hong Kong in the first quarter of 2010.
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First boron-nitride nanotube yarns produced

1 February 2010
The first practical yarns made from boron nitride fibres have been produced with lasers by researchers in the US.
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Project to accelerate printable organic circuits

1 February 2010
A new German research project has been announced to develop complementary circuit technology for printed organic electronics.
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US funding for NGP process development

1 February 2010
Angstron Materials, based in Dayton, Ohio, USA, has been awarded almost $1.5 million to develop new processes for mass-producing chemically modified and functionalised nano graphene platelets (NGPs).
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The North Face gets connected

1 February 2010
The North Face has launched a series of products with Fibretronic's CONNECTEDwear technology as standard.
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US LifeVest prescriptions top 20,000

1 February 2010
Zoll Medical Corporation, headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, announced on 11 January that more than 20,000 patients at high risk of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) have been prescribed the L
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Solarmer OPV sets new efficiency record

1 February 2010
Solarmer Energy, based in El Monte, California, USA, is reported to have achieved the highest conversion efficiency so far recorded for a plastic organic photovoltaic (OPV) champion cell, of 7.9%.
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Nike runners with ion-mask

1 February 2010
The new Lunar Wood TZ running shoe launched by Nike is the latest high-profile product to employ P2i's ion-mask liquid repellent nano-coating technology.
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First installations of aerogel roofing membranes

1 February 2010
Birdair, based in Buffalo, New York, has developed a new website - www.tensothermroofing.com - devoted exclusively to Tensotherm with Nanogel - the world
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Ingeo on display at the COP15

1 February 2010
At the Copenhagen Bella Centre in Denmark where the United Nations COP15 global conference on climate change was held in December, more than 20,000 square metres of ultra low carbon carpet was laid.
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Nanocomposites for sporting goods

1 February 2010
Applied Nanotech, based in Austin, Texas, USA, has entered into a licence and research and development agreement in respect of its carbon nanotube composite technology (epoxy/CNT) with a prominent spo
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Spacers with Coolmax

1 February 2010
Heathcoat Fabrics in the UK has included Advansa's Coolmax in its collection of Spacetech spacer fabrics, offering maximum and permanent evaporative cooling.
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Funding for printed LEDs development

1 February 2010
SouthWest NanoTechnologies (SWeNT), a manufacturer of single-wall and speciality multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNTs), has been awarded two grants from the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science
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