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Pneumatic comfort in business class

1 April 2012
Lantal Textiles AG has secured new orders from Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines for its Pneumatic Comfort System (PCS).
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Advanced knitting yields lightest running shoe

1 April 2012
The new Nike Flyknit running shoe is virtually seamles, with advanced knitting techniques allowing the upper to be manufactured as a single piece of material.
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Shark-resistant for open-ocean fish farming

1 April 2012
NET Systems based Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA, has introduced a proprietary shark-resistant netting material called the Predator-X that protects fish being raised in submerged open-ocean aquacu
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Biking broadcaster

1 April 2012
Sporty Supaheroe is an intelligent urban cycling jacket equipped with a wearable electronic system based on a stretchable circuit board developed by Fraunhofer IZM in Berlin.
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Sensors for sports need standardisation

1 April 2012
The work of the Pattern Recognition Lab of the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany is focused on the integration of sensors into clothing in respect of sensor data transmissio
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Emphasis on health for Schoeller

1 April 2012
Holistic health is a megatrend, says Swiss-headquartered textiles specialist Schoeller Textil AG, to which it is responding with new developments including the Swiss Technology Award-winning iLoad fab
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Boost in efficiency for Power Plastic

1 April 2012
California testing laboratory Newport Corporation has cerified Konarka's latest organic solar cells as demonstrating 9% single-junction efficiency.
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Simple sensor solution patented

1 April 2012
A new dehydration sensor which incorporates buffered inks for use in nonwoven-based incontinence products has been patented by Kimberly-Clark.
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Goldwin incorporates nanofibres into sports gloves

1 April 2012
Teijin is supplying Nanofront high-strength polyester nanofibre for use in the palms of biking gloves made by Goldwin, a major sport apparel maker in Japan.
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Aerogel for transparent building insulation

1 April 2012
A high-performance Tensotherm with Lumira aerogel roof has been installed by Birdair at the McClain Athletic Facility, University of Wisconsin, USA.
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Battery market boom for advanced materials

1 April 2012
A major opportunity for suppliers of advanced materials is in the battery module market for electric and hybrid vehicles.
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Green roofing acquisition

1 April 2012
Low & Bonar has announced the acquisition of Xero Flor International GmbH, a long-established supplier of green roof solutions, based in Germany.
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Polyamide from biomass

1 April 2012
Toray reports success in developing polyamide fibres and yarns from biomass - via a process it calls Hybrid Engineering - having initially announced some polyester biomass variants during 2011.
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Heat-reflective technology for synthetic turf

1 April 2012
TenCate Grass is adding heat-reflective (HR) pigments to all of its synthetic grass fibres (XP Blade) sold to the US market.
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Increasing nanofibre output from electrospinning units

1 April 2012
At present two basic types of electrodes are employed in the electrostatic spinning of liquid polymer matrices into nanofibres - static or rotating.
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New protein nanofibres discovered

1 April 2012
A new method for creating nanofibres made of proteins, developed by researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, may improve drug delivery methods for the treatment of cancers, heart d
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An iPod experience behind the wheel

1 April 2012
The recent development of soft polymer-based fibres with electrical properties that respond to the touch has excited the interest of, among others, car makers BMW and Volvo.
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Additive Manufacturing (AM) takes the limelight

1 April 2012
Material ConneXion is presenting a new exhibition, 'Print/3D', featuring the latest 3D-printed objects and designs from an array of artists, designers and manufacturers at its New York office until Ma
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Low-cost microfiltration with nanofibres

1 April 2012
A new patent involving nanofibre scaffolds being embedded into nanofibre nonwoven substrates for the effective microfiltration of bacteria, viruses and toxic heavy metal and radioactive ions has been
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Winning combination

1 April 2012
Graphene and carbon nanotubes have been turned into a new polmyeric formula that can be subsequently wet-spun into fibres that are stronger than either Kevlar or spider silk - with obvious potential a
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