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At the Annual General Meeting of EDANA, held in Vienna, Austria, in June, members unanimously elected Luc Maes as Chairman for one year.
Professor Jurgen Mecheels, former head of the Hohenstein Institutes and an internationally recognized scientist in textile research, died on 31 July 2006, aged 78.
With effect from the next issue,Technical Textiles International will feature a regular section focusing exclusively on highperformance applications for nonwoven fabrics.
Owens Corning, USA, and Saint Gobain, France, have jointly announced their intentions to merge their reinforcements divisions into a new company to be called Owens Corning-Vetrotex.
Uniloy Milacron, a US manufacturer of reciprocating blowmoulding machines, has helped to develop a process for making headrests for automobiles that eliminates the need for cutting and sewing operatio
Hungary's government has pledged a grant of HUF29 billion (approximately $14.5 million) to help Zoltek's Hungarian subsidiary modernize its facilities-- establishing a research and development centre
McAirlaid's Vliesstoffe GmbH & Co KG,a German manufacturer of nonwoven composites for applications involving absorbency, will invest $85 million to open its first North American manufacturing faci
Invista will invest more than US$50 million to build a major manufacturing facility for polyamide 6.6 (PA 6.6) yarns in the Shanghai region of China.
Through its takeover of the Steiger Group, headquartered in Vionnaz, Switzerland, the Itema Group has expanded its position in the textile machinery business.
Schaetti AG no longer makes coating and laminating machinery. The Swiss company with headquarters in Wallisellen has sold its Schaetti Line business to the M+S Group of Brugg, Switzerland.
ON 31 MAY 2006, Philip Preest retired from EDANA after 32 years of service to the nonwovens industry.
StainSmart, a dual-action stain repel-and-release fabric technology developed by US-based textile and chemical manufacturer Milliken, is being employed in a new line of fashionable and functional hosp
Jacob Holm & Sonner and Thygesen Textile Group are hiving off their Jacob Holm & Sons STA (Special & Technical Applications) and Tytex businesses, respectively, and merging them under the
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant of GBP360 000 (US$672 000) to textile researchers in the UK to develop an innovative mosquito net that is expected to provide more sustainab
A disposable, size-adaptable arm sling for supporting a patient's arm and hand is outlined in US Patent 7 018 349 by FanCastic Products.
A treatment composition and method for treating polyolefin nonwoven fabrics to impart wettability (i.e. hydrophilicity) is disclosed in US Patent 7 018 945 by Kimberly-Clark.
TyRx Pharma has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for Pivit AB, a surgical mesh product coated with a proprietary bioresorbable polymer containing t
A stabilizing device for securing an intravenous (IV) catheter to a patient's body is described in US Patent 7 022 111 by inventors from Glendale, Arizona,USA.
German nonwovens producer McAirlaid's is to invest US$85 million over the next six years in setting up an airlaid nonwovens manufacturing plant in Rocky Mount, Virginia, USA.
The next How To Enter Technical Textiles Markets symposium will be held at the Le Meridien Hotel, Porto, Portugal, from 22-23 March 2007.
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