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An improved wound dressing material for use in the treatment of burns and skin graft sites is disclosed in US Patent 9 326 894 by ConvaTec Technologies.

The first polyurethane (PU) rotor blade for wind turbines in Asia has been manufactured by Covestro of Leverkusen, Germany. 

Embedded smart fabric car seat sensors with intelligent car occupant sensing technology for safer airbag deployment are being introduced to the market by BeBop Sensors of Berkeley, California, USA.

Spain’s competition and markets authority has levied a total of nearly €130 million in fines on seven manufacturers of absorbent adult incontinence products doing business in the Spanish market.

An absorbent article with improved side-leakage security is disclosed in US Patent 9 259 361 by SCA Hygiene Products.

AGC Chemicals  Americas has developed  AsahiGuard  AG-E600, a perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)-free repellent with improved environmental and biological profiles.

Oxford Advanced Surfaces (OAS) of Begbroke, UK, has been awarded a £233 000 grant by Innovate UK to develop new surface treatments for recycled carbon fibres, enabling them to be used to create nov

Sensifree, headquartered in Cupertino, California, USA, with an research and development (R&D) centre in Petach-Tikva, Israel, has raised US$5 million in a  Series A round of financing.

Japan-based household and consumer product maker Oji Holdings has begun production on a new baby diaper line in Malaysia that will produce 10 million pieces a month to satisfy domestic and regional

The PIKE digital textile printer manufactured by The Netherlands-based SPGPrints has won the European Digital Press (EDP) Award for Best Industrial Textile Solution.

Projects that have brought artist Christo to public notice worldwide include the wrapping of the Reichstag Building in Berlin, Germany, and of the Pont Neuf in Paris, France, as well as the creatio

A durable, heat-resistant, flame-retardant (FR) fabric that is also highly visible owing to its vivid colour is now available, according to its two Japanese co-developers.

It’s exactly a decade since Levi Strauss of San Francisco, California, USA, announced its first connected denims.

Effective from today (1 June 2016), Karl Mayer has acquired Santoni’s technology (SWD) for seamless warp-knitting.

A researcher at Clemson University of South Carolina, USA, has received a US$2 million grant to develop cheaper precursors for the production of carbon fibres. 

Giro Sport Design, based in Santa Cruz, California, USA, has launched a new cycling helmet – the Aerohead Ultimate MIPS – employing TeXtreme carbon fibre fabrics to create a light, strong and rigid

An implant for the prevention or treatment of a hernia near a stoma formed in an abdominal wall has been developed by Covidien subsidiary Sofradim Production of Trévoux, France.

Hexcel Corp has made a strategic investment in Oxford Performance Materials (OPM), a producer of three-dimensionally (3D)-printed carbon fibre-reinforced thermoplastic parts.

A wound dressing suitable for use in a negative-pressure wound therapy (NPWT) system has been developed by Smith & Nephew.

In the period 2015–2020, US demand for coated fabrics will increase from 489.1 million m² (585 million square yards) to 543.5 million m² (650 million square yards), according