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Mammut, based in Cologne, Germany, has specialized in the manufacture of high-performance industrial quilting machines for the past 140 years.

A UK geotextiles manufacturer has developed design software to help engineers select the correct product.

A technology developed at the Technical University of Dresden (TU Dresden) makes it possible to weave fibre-reinforced three-dimensional (3D) structures in T, X, and U shapes from high-performance

Oerlikon’s Manmade Fibers Segment is to create a joint venture with Huitong Chemical Engineering Technique Co Ltd of Yangzhou, China, a leading global supplier of technologies and e

While seaweed cultivation is already a major industry in Asia, with around 25 million t farmed annually, it is extremely labour-intensive.

Six customers in the European markets for automotive, workwear and military fabrics, with a combined sales potential of US$15–20 million in the next 12–18 months, are already being

Another winner of a Techtextil Innovation Award was Sosa Fresh, a design studio belonging to a recent graduate of the Royal College of  Art in London, UK, Oluwaseyi Sosanya. 

Ferndale Healthcare, the distributor of RectiCare Anorectal Cream, has introduced RectiCare Medicated Anorectal Wipes for haemorrhoid sufferers.

Medical devices manufacturer Boston Scientific has been ordered to pay US$100 million to a woman who said the company’s vaginal mesh inserts left her in constant pain and unable to have sex.

Lenzing AG has agreed to sell three of the business units of its subsidiary Lenzing Technik.

Johns Manville is increasing its capacity for manufacturing glass microfibre at its plant in Waterville, Ohio, USA.

US demand for geosynthetics will grow by 3.8% a year from 2014 to reach 1.1 billion square metres (1.3 billion square yards) in 2019, according to the latest forecast.

Oerlikon Barmag has officially opened the building for its new technology centre in Chemnitz, Germany.

Electronics for Imaging (EFI) Inc of Fremont, California, USA, has acquired a leading developer and supplier of printing equipment for textiles, Reggiani Macchine of Bergamo, Italy.

Many of the innovations that are introduced at successive Techtextil shows every two years in Frankfurt, Germany, are not always pushing through to the mass-market they deserve, believes M

Worldwide the demand for coated fabrics will grow by 4.6% a year from 2014 to 2019, when it will amount to 5.4 billion square metres (6.5 billion square yards).

Archroma of Reinach, Switzerland, has completed its acquisition of BASF's global business for textile chemicals.

A lightweight polyester (PES) fabric that can absorb a large amount of water, and has a soft bulky texture is now available from Teijin Frontier Co Ltd.

Designed for rapidly testing the vapour permeability of fabrics, the Mk VI is now available from Versaperm Ltd.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, continue to perfect their method of producing spherical, sheet-like and fibrous nanostructures by carboni