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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.

Sioen Industries NV has bought the James Dewhurst Group for £44 million. 

The boards of directors of Huntsman Corp of The Woodlands, Texas, USA, and Clariant of Muttenz, Switzerland, have unanimously approved a definitive agreement to combine the companies in a merger of

Bio-based epoxy resins from Sicomin of Châteauneuf-les-Martigues are being used by NOTOX of Anglet (both in France) to produce composite surfboards.

Agrotextiles that are wholly biocompostable were introduced by Lenzing AG at Techtextil (held in Frankfurt, Germany, on 9–12 May 2017).

A circular loom (FX 8.0) for the production of heavy-duty tape fabrics has been unveiled by Starlinger of Vienna, Austria.

The first samples of a spider silk produced by genetically engineered silkworms have been delivered to the US Army for independent testing.

ZF TRW Occupant Safety Systems (OSS) of Alfdorf, Germany, has invested in two multi-ply fabric cutters to boost its European airbag manufacturing capacity.