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Saati opens Chinese facility

1 January 2009
Saati, a multinational company based in Italy that manufactures high technology synthetic fabrics and chemicals for industry, has revealed it will open a production facility in Tianjin, China.
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Nonwoven wipes for warfare agents and hazardous chemicals

1 January 2009
Emergency workers and military personnel charged with cleaning up chemical warfare agents and toxic chemicals have a new tool to call on: a decontamination wipe developed by researchers at The Institu
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TenCate boosted by military order

1 January 2009
The US Army has issued orders to the manufacturer, SNCT, for Combat Uniforms, made from TenCate's Gen2 fabrics.
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World demand for textile chemicals

1 January 2009
World demand for textile chemicals is projected to increase 2.8% a year to reach $19 billion in 2012.
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Wall Street Journal award for carbon nanotube yarns

1 December 2008
Nanocomp Technologies has received the 2008 Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for materials and base technologies.
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US Department of Energy backs Oak Ridge

1 December 2008
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, has secured $8.4 million in funding from the US Department of Energy to further develop a number of nanomanufacturing technologies.
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Advanced Textiles '09 - a US-European networking event

1 December 2008
Building on the success of the first Advanced Textiles conference in June 2008, Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI) has announced a second conference to be held from 2-3 April 2009 in
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Infineon powers latest Autoliv seatbelts

1 December 2008
Autoliv has selected Germany's Infineon as the sole supplier of power semiconductors for its next-generation seatbelt pretension systems, called Active Seatbelts.
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Intimate apparel additive for 'structural moisturisation'

1 December 2008
DermalRx HydroSeal, a proprietary ingredient of Applied DNA Sciences (APDN), headquartered in New York, has been incorporated into the fabric of a new range currently being test marketed by a global m
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Plastic Logic device gains award

1 December 2008
Plastic Logic has been recognised by the Plastic Electronics Foundation with one of its first awards for innovation.
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IsoNanotubes samples available

1 December 2008
Nanomaterials start-up company NanoIntegris, based in Smokie, Illinois, USA, has begun selling samples of its metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), which the company has
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Robotic muscle principle added to seating

1 December 2008
Oki Electric Industry has applied its advanced robotic technologies to a seating application and together with fellow Japanese company Okamura Corporation, a leading manufacturer of office furniture,
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Organics centre opens in Dresden

1 December 2008
COMMEDD - the Centre for Organic Materials and Electronic Devices Dresden - has just opened in Germany as part of the Frauenhofer Institutes, with the target of developing new processes for organic se
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Solar plan for Orlando's airport

1 December 2008
SKYShades is currently negotiating a project with Park Bark & Fly, an off-site parking lot near Orlando International Airport in Florida, USA, to cover 1,000 parking spaces with shade panels equip
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Disruptor PAC up for award

1 December 2008
Ahlstrom's Disruptor PAC nonwoven technology for the filtration of water has been nominated as one of the five finalists for INDA's 2009 Visionary Award, which is given annually to a new consumer prod
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EnOcean Alliance for intelligent green buildings

1 December 2008
Powered by tiny amounts of energy drawn from light, movement or changes in temperature in their surrounding environment, EnOcean sensors are able to transmit reliable wireless signals over 30 metres i
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OCZ unleashes the 'brainmouse'

1 December 2008
During 2008, OCZ Technology Group has started mass-production of the NIA - Neural Impulse Actuator - a new product aimed at the PC gaming market which allows players to translate the body's electrical
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New tools for fabric calculations

1 December 2008
Lectra is introducing new versions of DesignConcept Auto (V4R1) and DesignConcept TechTex (V4R1) for the automotive industry and manufacturers using industrial fabrics respectively.
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Robots with the gentle touch

1 December 2008
At the forthcoming Forum Robotic 2009 - which takes place in Bremen, Germany, from February 12-13 2009 - BWM (Bremer Werk fur Montagesysteme GmbH) will present new automation solutions for fibre-reinf
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Fighting identity fraud with QTCs

1 December 2008
Peratech, the UK-based owner of the Elektex and Softswitch brands, believes its core QTC (Quantum Tunnelling Composites) technology will prove an invaluable tool in fighting identity fraud.
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