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Adlington, UK-based manufacturer of textiles for workwear and protective fabrics, RTS Textiles, is bringing together all off its operations and joint-venture partners to form a unified entity known

Freudenberg Performance Materials has merged its two coated-fabrics businesses, Mehler Texnologies and Heytex, to form a new brand named MehlerHeytex.

Knitted bioabsorbable fabrics that mimic the unique way that soft tissues stretch and move while nurturing growing cells are being developed for the treatment of severe and/or chronic wounds by res

After more than ten years of research and development (R&D), a demonstration plant that uses a chemical process for separating elastane fibres from polyamide (PA) has been opened by Aquafil, of

US-based manufacturer of threads, American & Efird (A&E), has opened a manufacturing facility just outside the port city of Chattogram, Bangladesh.

The global market for nonwoven filter media was worth US$6.1 billion in 2024, according to a new report by market research company Smithers, of Leatherhead, UK, and Akron, Ohio, USA.

The Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) is calling on the US government to exclude products that fall under the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) permanently from tariff

EDANA has raised concerns about the potential for "unintended consequences" for the nonwovens industry with regard to the European Commission (EC)’s potential decision to implement countermeasures

A tearing line that will be used to recycle textiles so that the resulting fibres can be employed in the production of insulation for buildings has been started-up at Buitex's plant in Cours, Franc

Recycler of carbon fibre and composites, Vartega of Golden, Colorado, USA, and composites-manufacturer, Syensqo, of Brussels, Belgium, have entered into an agreement to produce post-industrial recy

A chemical process that can dissolve and re-spin para-aramid fibres into continuous, high-performance fibres is being developed by Uplift360 of Bristol, UK.  

Karl Mayer of Obertshausen, Germany, a manufacturer of multiaxial warp knitting machines and warp knitting machines with weft insertion, says that it welcomed many of its regular customers at J

Beaulieu Fibres International of Wielsbeke, Belgium, will be exhibiting its latest sustainable fibres for high-performance nonwovens in various industries at IDEA in Miami Beach on 29 Apri

An airlay line that can convert recycled fibres into nonwovens for automotive and industrial applications has been installed at Carolina Nonwovens' new plant in Fostoria, Ohio, USA.

Bridgwater, UK-based technical-fabric manufacturer Nonwovenn is to invest a further £5 million in its business to support the next phase of its expansion and development.

A robotic system developed by Loop Technology, of Dorchester, UK, for the high-rate manufacturing of large-scale composite structures attracted significant attention at JEC World.

A strong, heat-resistant polyimide fibre has been launched for the reinforcement of composites by Industrial Summit Technology (IST) of Shiga, Japan.

Ahlstrom, a developer and producer of fibre-based speciality materials based in Helsinki, Finland, is now able to provide product-specific carbon-footprint data through an automated life-cycle asse

US manufacturer of basalt fibres, Rock Fiber Inc, has formed a joint venture with Norwegian supplier of composite reinforcements for concrete, ReforceTech, a global leader in composite reinforcemen

Owens Corning is to sell its glass-fibre reinforcements business to the Mumbai, India-based Praana Group for US$755 million.