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Personnel and processing equipment are being installed at GE Aviation’s factory complex in Huntsville, Alabama—the first in the USA to be mass-producing silicon carbide (SiC) materials for the manu

A golden flexible intermediate bulk container (FIBC) made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) bottles has been unveiled by Starlinger of Vienna, Austria.  

Borealis of Vienna, Austria, is to examine the feasibility of increasing the capacity of its polypropylene (PP) plants in Europe significantly. 

North Thin Ply Technology (NTPT) is working with 4a manufacturing to develop carbon prepreg foam sandwich materials, which the two companies claim to be the thinnest in the world.

A range of products designed to increase the abrasion resistance of fabrics, thereby reducing instances of fuzzing and pilling, has been launched by HeiQ of Schlieren, Switzerland.

Chomarat of Le Cheylard, France, says that multiaxial machine for the manufacture of carbon fibre reinforcements it has purchased from Karl Mayer of Obertshausen, Germany, is ten-times more product

Xsensio of Lausanne, Switzerland, will lead the €2.48-million XPATCH consortium, which will develop a wearable skin patch for health and wellness monitoring based on the company’s propriet

Thomas Swan & Co Ltd of Consett, UK, will be expanding its range of Elicarb graphene materials with a prototype product for the manufacture of a carbon fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRPs).

The German The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) Textile Machinery Association has elected a new chairperson. 

A smart fabric developed with funding from Google at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, USA, could make keys obsolete.

An improved dressing for treating infected wounds has been developed by BSN Medical of Hamburg, Germany.

Researchers in the USA have developed an experimental device to test the durability of high performance and robust polymers that appear to strengthen themselves under a rapid series of impacts.

Developer of smart fabrics and wearable computing technologies Myant of Toronto, Canada, has committed around US$80 million (CAD$100 million) to a proposed advanced manufacturing supercluster in Ca

A three-dimensionally (3D)-printed microfluidic device that enables the electrospinning of aligned polyethylene oxide (PEO) nanofibre nonwovens is being developed by researchers in the USA. 

Teijin Frontier, the Teijin group’s fibre-product converting company, has developed a bag-type filter using its Nanofront high-strength, ultra-fine polyester (PES) fibre for collecting dust. 

Invista of Wichita, Kansas, USA, is to sell its Apparel & Advanced Textiles business to Shandong Ruyi Investment Holding of Jining, China.

A JEC Asia Innovation Award has been presented to R-Tech Materials for its work on developing an early warning safety sensor for hydrogen fuel cell storage tanks in cars.

Methods for the cost-effective use of filament sensors in fibre-reinforced plastics are being developed by researchers in Germany.

A durable softshell fabric integrating a high-performance, bio-based fibre has been unveiled by Invista’s Cordura brand, DuPont and DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products.

A breathable impervious fabric for use in cleanroom apparel that can also provide protection against blood-borne pathogens has been launched by Ahlstrom-Munksjö of Stockholm, Sweden.