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Euratex is seeeking prospective partners in a range of projects - including five targeting textile-based electronics - which are currently vying for funding under the European Textile Technology Platf
Bayer MaterialScience has developed extensive technology know-how and a wide range of materials for customers who print polycarbonate films with electronic functions and process these into 3D electron
The use of advanced thermoplastics to replace traditional thermosets in aircraft interiors offers multiple benefits, including both system cost reduction and the potential for recycling.
DyStar Colours Deutschland and Coatema Coating Machinery are working together to develop new minimal application technologies for pre-reduced indigo, indigo and vat dyes, in addition to further effect
Avantium has started construction of a pilot plant at its Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands to produce YXY-branded building blocks for making green materials and fuels.
Biomedical Structures - a provider of biomedical textiles for medical devices and other advanced clinical applications, based in Warwick, Rhode Island, USA - has expanded its textile engineering capab
LED-embedded yarns and light emitting fabrics developed at the Taiwan Textile Research Institute are now being actively promoted by a number of Taiwanese companies across Asia.
Kurarity has been decided as the name for Kuraray's new acrylic thermoplastic elastomer.
3M is expanding its Ultra Barrier solar film manufacturing capacity to support the growing demand for high efficiency flexible PV modules.
While glass will continue to dominate substrate and encapsulation materials used for thin-film photovoltaics (TFPV), new materials including composites, metal foils, plastics and ceramics will grow ra
Following Lenzing's recent announcement that it will double the capacity of Tencel fibre at its plant in the UK and significantly expand the Austrian site at Heiligenkreuz, it is setting great store b
The first products made using a high-performance polyamide 11 yarn derived entirely from renewable raw materials have been brought to the market.
Two partners are to establish a facility in Russia to make carbon fibre textiles.
Lenzing, a specialist in the development, manufacture and sales of cellulosic fibres, is to invest Euro120 million in its production facilities in Europe and Asia.
A patented robot can now weave carbon braids into tubes tailored to match specific loads in a composite bicycle frame, according to BMC.
Toho Tenax Europe GmbH has finally begun full operation of its fourth carbon fibre production line in Oberbruch, Germany.
C.A. Litzler Co Inc of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, says it has won a contract to design and build a tyre cord dipping line for a customer in Vietnam.
Starlinger and SABIC have cooperated to develop an extrusion line designed for the production of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) tapes and, in a separate development, a woven tape fabric that can be
TencelWeb is the name given to a new technology that allows the direct manufacture of cellulosic nonwoven webs from a spinning solution of lyocell, according to Lenzing's Mirko Einzmann.
Teijin Techno Products Ltd has developed an aramid fibre fabric called Triprotech as part of its collaboration with Akao Co Ltd that has led to the launch of a new suit for Japan's firefighters.
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