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Blending fibres to achieve specific technical objectives is a growing trend for NorthAmerican yarn spinners as fabric companies and their customers strive to put something unique in the market, report
The rapidly changing advanced battery industry could experience the explosive growth usually associated with emerging industries according to US analysts.
Another Techtextil/Avantex beckons with the promise of all the latest innovations. But with 1000 or more exhibitors to assess in just three days, how will visitors find what they are looking for?

India's market for medical textiles grows 10-12%, making it one of the fastest growing sectors in the country.

With India's government making huge investments to improve the country's infrastructure all might seem set fair for geotextile manufacturers, but for the true potential to be realized other issues

Germany is by far the world's largest exporter of textile machinery and recent sales success for its industry coupled with widespread optimism that this will continue bodes well for us all.
Nonwoven geotextiles are extensively used in civil engineering to supply a combination of separation, filtration and reinforcement.
France's textile machinery industry invests heavily in research and development; is active in technical textiles; is working to reduce the consumption of energy, water and chemicals in textile manufac
The second day of the fourth International Newsletters symposium How to Enter Technical Textiles Markets was largely dedicated to two key markets-- the integration of electronic switches and sensors i
Adrian Wilson reports from the first International Active Textiles Symposium, organized by leading speciality chemicals company Cognis, which has been in the vanguard of developing fabrics and garment
High speeds and excellent product qualities have always been key specifications for nonwoven production and finishing.
California-based VivoMetrics has announced the launch of VivoResponder, a lightweight and compact, non-invasive, continuous life-sign monitoring system specifically tailored to meet the needs of the f
Prisym has recently invested in the latest holographic equipment at its Wokingham facility in the UK to expand its range of hologram labels.
California-based Applied Materials is to provide T-Solar Global of Spain with Europe's first thin film solar module production line for ultra-large 5.7 square metre panels.
United Solar Ovonic a developing thin-film amorphous-silicon solar technology, has been awarded a new contract worth $9.1 million from the US Air Force Research Laboratory to work on new solar cell te
A nonwoven composite containing prion-capture resin beads has been developed by US researchers for the removal of infectious prion proteins - the agents associated with variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disea
Researchers in Israel are using gold nanoparticles dissolved in a new organic solution as a method of revealing hidden fingerprints.
NaturalNano has outlined its performance goals for 2007 in respect of its Pleximer additive based on halloysite nanotubes.
Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc and Unidym are to merge.
Sunload, based in Berlin, Germany, has teamed up with elite bag manufacturer Marc-Picard to create a series of luxury bags and briefcases, each with embedded flexible solar panels, an internal lithium
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