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Smart fabrics are already an industry worth an annual US$340 million and growing at 19% annually to reach a predicted $720 million by 2008, according to IntertechPira.
Elekesen achieved 2006 sales of GBP3.6 million, compared to GBP1.3 million in 2005, its rapid growth curve representing the impact this technology is now having on the market.
A nylon polymer composite with greater strength and toughness due to the incorporation of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) has been developed by a team of University of Pennsylvania and Rice Uni
An engineer from The University of Manchester in the UK who is pushing boundaries in the field of nanotechnology has been recognised with a prestigious award.
The University of Dayton Research Institute, Ohio, USA, has opened what it claims is the world's first manufacturing centre for product demonstration of nano-enhanced polymer composites.
A team from the Max Planck Institute for Solid-State Research in Stuttgart and Christina Wege's research team at the University of Stuttgart has been successful in selectively modifying the ends of na
Florida-based extrusion equipment manufacturer Hills Inc. has developed technology to produce meltblown fibres with an average size of 250 nm and a range between 25 and 400 nm.
Noble Biomaterials, the US creator of X-Static silver fibre, has developed the FRX fibre system to respond to the military's need for flame resistant clothing.
Sprayway is to feature Fibretronic's iPod joystick controller in its Autumn/Winter 2007/2008 collection of performance outerwear.
US special forces soldiers could soon be wearing smart fabrics developed in New Zealand that monitor how they cope during combat situations.
E Ink Corp, a spin-out from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is seeing a surge in orders for its portable, foldable displays that emulate conventional paper.
A new study conducted by the University of Minnesota's, Center for Sustainable Building Research will determine what impact awnings have in saving energy in homes.
Using complex mathematical equations for bending light, a group of engineers at Purdue University in Indiana, USA, have come up with a design for a device that can make objects seem to disappear.
With only glass and polyamide as its major components, a tufted carpet developed by Owens Corning Fiberglas Inc can be readily recycled, according to the company.
Using wrapped yarns comprising fibres of two different materials, Samson Rope claims to have made ropes with at least one surface property that has been adapted to its intended application.
In cooperation with the Indian Modi Group, Austria's Lenzing Group will build a viscose fibre production plant in India.
A leading US rope manufacturer has developed a way of making systems that fail under tension in a controlled manner, with visible changes acting as a warning to replace the affected parts.
On 17 March 2007, Rieter celebrated the inauguration of the first integrated spunlace line installed in India, sold to Ginni Filaments Ltd.
A synthetic fibre with flame retardancy sufficiently high for use in bedclothes, mattresses and furnishing has been developed in Japan.
Nonwoven wipes that can be used to mop or absorb relatively small amounts of liquid but then disperse when introduced to larger amounts of water, such as when the item is flushed down a toilet, are th
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