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PowerMatrix range of smart fabrics from Sefar

1 January 2007
Swiss headquartered Sefar AG now offers a range of woven smart fabrics based on its PowerMatrix hybrid of polyester and copper monofilaments in warp and weft.
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Levi's Redwire in India

1 January 2007
Levi's has now launched its Redwire DLX iPod-compatible jeans in India, retailing at Rupees 9,000 (US$201), making them a little cheaper than the US$250 they are prices at on
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Strong first year for new fluid printer

1 January 2007
Fujifilm Dimatix reports that it shipped more than 5,000 Dimatix materials cartridges and around 100 full Dimatix Materials Printer (DMP) systems to customers in the first year of production.
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Music in the air at CSIRO

1 January 2007
The smart fabrics story that has taken the international media by storm recently is CSIRO's 'air guitar' shirt.
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Auxetic fibres for bomb-proof curtains

1 January 2007
Engineers from the University of Exeter in the UK are working on a new project to create curtains made from a smart material that could minimise injuries inflicted by a terrorist attack.
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NaturalNano runs machine-scale tests

1 January 2007
New York-headquartered NaturalNano has announced the first successful manufacturing-scale-trial of its halloysite clay nanotube technology,
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US college invests $190 million in new materials complex

1 January 2007
With a total investment of $190 million, Pennsylvania State University will construct a new 350,000-square-foot materials/life science research facility at its University Park campus.
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Nanoledge to be supplied with Arkema CNTs

1 January 2007
Arkema of France is to supply multiwalled carbon nanotubes to Nanoledge for incorporation into nanotube-resin composites.
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Nanocoating installation for AP & C

1 January 2007
Advanced Powders and Coatings (AP & C), a subsidiary of Raymor Industries, is currently expanding its thermal spray coating production capacity at its new facility in Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada, t
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New luminous knitted fabrics for cars

1 January 2007
Automotive interiors specialist Eybl International reports that it has developed a luminous textile which works in three dimensions.
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Innovation award for Schoeller's c_change

1 January 2007
Schoeller Textil AG of Switzerland has received the 2006 Frost and Sullivan Product Innovation of the Year Award.
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Smart Fabrics 2007 rescheduled

1 January 2007
Intertech-Pira has rescheduled its Smart Fabrics 2007 conference which will now be held on May 7-9, 2007 at the Washington Marriott in Washington DC, USA.
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NanoSolutions and Material Vision to be held in parallel in 2007

1 January 2007
Materials technology and its continued development via nanonottechnology is of decisive importance for Germany's future.
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New face at Textronics

1 January 2007
Textronics has named Geoffrey Lapres as chief financial officer (CFO).
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New tools for the nanoscale

1 January 2007
FEI Company is expanding its Helios NanoLab family of DualBeams with the introduction of the Helios NanoLab 400 and 400S systems.
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Adding intelligence to optical fibres

1 January 2007
Pennsylvania State University researchers are developing a new generation of super-intelligent and inexpensive optical fibres.
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New chair of nanotech

1 January 2007
The use of polyester as a substrate for wearable technologies is one of the current projects being developed by Professor Arokia Nathan, who has been appointed the first holder of the Sumitomo/STS cha
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Bright, coloured metal ropes

1 January 2007
By coating the wires in a metal rope with a polymer, it is possible to protect them and to improve their aesthetics, according to NV Bekaert SA.
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High molecular weight polyolefin reinforcement improvements

1 January 2007
A novel approach to making polymer matrix composites reinforced with ultra-high molecular weight polyolefin fibres is the result of the work of a group of Israeli researchers.
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Meltblown fabric

1 January 2007
GE Osmonics Inc has developed a three-dimensional nonwoven of meltblown fibres, for use as a filter medium.
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