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Freudenberg Performance Materials has opened a technical centre at its factory in Nantong, China, where it can work with its customers to develop sportswear and other high-performance apparel. 

Comez, of Cilavegna, Italy, reports that its knitting machines can be used to manufacture a wide variety of textiles for medical implants.  

A glass fibre-reinforced polyamide (PA) 6 from Lanxess is being used by Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co KG to make cable connectors for wall-mounted electric-vehicle (EV) charging stations. 

Durable fabrics made from pre-consumer recycled polyamide (PA) by Invista's Cordura brand are now being used in the production of backpacks and anoraks.

Circular economy-inspired approaches to mitigate the environmental impact of wind-turbine blades at the ends of their useful lifespans are being investigated by researchers at the National Renewabl

The developer of a novel three-dimensional (3D) carbon fibre reinforcement for the production of impact-resistant and durable composites, Boston Materials, has opened a new headquarters in Billeric

Textile-based pneumatic logic gates that could be used to help people with functional limitations perform tasks without electronic assistance, eliminating the need for wearers to carry bulky power

An airlay line that enables new mattresses to be produced from industrial and post-consumer waste polyurethane (PU) foam has been started-up by Recypur Eco SL at its headquarters facility in L'Alcú

Andritz is to supply a crosslapper to Jasztex Fibers Inc's site in Pointe Claire, Quebec, Canada, where it will be used to produce polyester (PES)-based fabrics for a wide range of applications. 

Essity has competed its purchases of developers and sellers of washable leakproof apparel for periods and incontinence, Modibodi and Knix Wear Inc. 

Avient Corp has completed its purchase of DSM Protective Materials (including the Dyneema brand of ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibre products) from Royal DSM for €1.45 billion

Toray Industries Inc, of Tokyo, Japan, claims to have manufactured the world’s first entirely bio-based adipic acid, which is a precursor for polyamide (PA) 66, from sugars derived from inedible bi

A wearable sensor that can communicate with other electronic devices wirelessly without onboard chips or batteries is being developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MI

The European Apparel and Textile Confederation (EURATEX) of Brussels, Belgium, is calling for a cap on the price of gas and a revision of the electricity price mechanism in the European Union (EU)

Renewcell, of Stockholm, Sweden, has announced that its flagship factory – which it describes as the world’s first commercial-scale textile-to-textile recycling plant – is up and running.

TAU Investment Management, which has offices in New York City, USA, and Hong Kong, China, has made what it describes as "significant investments" in waterless-dyeing specialists DyeCoo Textile Syst

Dongsung Chemical and UPM Biochemicals have agreed to form a partnership to develop a bio-based polyurethane (PU) for use in the Asian footwear and textiles markets.  

Recycled items of personal protective equipment (PPE) – including face masks and gowns – are being used to improve the mechanical properties of concrete by researchers at RMIT University in Melbour

The use of an energy-efficient, high-throughput digital finishing technology for the application of a water- and stain-repellent finish to a fabric for workwear has been tested by its developer, Al

Milliken & Co has increased its capacity for the production of yarn for its Protective Fabrics, Workwear, Government and Defence, Industrial and Napery textile business units by purchasing a ya