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Hengan International Group, one of China’s largest producers of sanitary napkins, baby diapers and tissues, has acquired a 50.4% stake in Wang-Zheng and has made an offer to take over the remaining

Global sales of textile auxiliaries – such as pre-treatment agents, dye-stuffs and finishing agents – are projected to reach 2.58 Mt in 2017, up from 2.49 Mt in 2016, according to

Web Industries has opened a thermoplastics development centre its Composites Center of Excellence in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, where its CAD Cut division has also just opened a ply cutting and kitting

Procter & Gamble is planning an expansion of its Novomoskovsk manufacturing facility in the Tula region of Russia for the production of diapers and other technical textile and nonwoven products

Rokoko of Copenhagen, Denmark, has launched its Smartsuit Pro, which it claims will make motion capture, animation and three-dimensional (3D) effects more accessible. 

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, has designed a breathable workout suit with ventilating flaps that open and close in response to changes

A new multifunctional fabric principally for sportswear will be available from Teijin Frontier Co Ltd in time for the Autumn/Winter 2018 collections of its customers.

Hygiene products maker SCA has formed a US supply agreement with Vizient for the Swedish company’s Tena incontinence products.

Japanese fibres and nonwovens producer Asahi Kasei is reportedly spending ¥5 billion (US$45 million) on new production lines in Thailand, targeting the disposable diaper market, which will increase

Gurit of Zurich, Switzerland, is to produce and supply carbon fibre-based exterior car body panels for an Italian premium automotive original equipment manufacturer (OEM). 

Hexcel Corp is negotiating to buy Structil SA, a producer and supplier of high-performance composites to the aerospace, defence and industrial markets.

Scientists in Croatia and the UK have combined electrospun filaments with bioactive molecules that offer promising applications for soft-tissue repair.

ElderSens has launched a wearable sensors network technology to alert assisted care staff via an SMS (short message service) text message when incontinence products need to be changed.

Smart fabric specialist BeBop Sensors of Berkeley, California, USA is launching its Marcel Modular Data Gloves for companies in the virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) markets.

An electrospun elastomeric fibre membrane has been developed for use in an artificial heart pump by researchers at Empa. 

Synvina, the joint venture between Avantium and BASF, has received official approval for its polyethylenefuranoate (PEF) biodegradable polymer to be recycled in the European bottle recycling market

Lenzing is to launch viscose fibres that it claims have the lowest environmental impact of all such fibres (according to the Sustainable Appare

A new meltblown nonwoven made of pure melamine – one of the best priced acoustic and thermal insulating materials for high-temperature applications – was introduced by smartpolymer GmbH of Rudolsta

Mitsui Chemicals of Tokyo, Japan, is introducing a nonwoven fabric (Airyfa)  based on its proprietary hollow polyolefin fibre spinning technology for sanitary goods.

A method for depositing graphene nanoplatelets directly onto composite laminates in a controlled and targeted manner is being developed by Applied Graphene Materials (AGM) of Redcar, UK.