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Revealing how innovation runs through the whole supply chain

1 February 2011
By combining Techtextil with Avantex, and co-locating the resulting exhibition with Material Vision and a new show, Texprocess, Messe Frankfurt aims to create a complete platform for the most innovati
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Ambition and belief help pay dividends for Supreme Nonwovens

1 February 2011
A wide range of technologies, manufacturing facilities across India, a commitment to research and its staff, foresight and novel business models combine to create success for Supreme Nonwovens, accord
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Demands from consumers help bring functionality to the fore

1 February 2011
An international seminar, Innovation in Textiles and Demanding Consumerism, in Mumbai, India, threw light on the functional and technical values of clothing, highlighting some emerging innovations, ac
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India's increasing awareness fuels growth for protective textiles

1 February 2011
Protective textiles were the subject of a seminar held in southern India, where delegates learned of the great potential for growth in this market and of the actions being taken by the country's gover
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Concern for the environment continues to drive innovation

1 February 2011
Techtextil continues to be a home for innovation in the industry and, as this selection by the Editor of highlights from the exhibitors' plans shows, the desire to protect the environment continues to
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Machinery builders to reveal latest developments at Techtextil

1 February 2011
Machinery builders continue to develop products designed specifically for the manufacture of technical textiles and, despite the imminence of ITMA 2011, many will use Techtextil to reveal some of thei
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From sportswear to car seats with Karl Mayer's raschel machines

1 February 2011
At Techtextil, Karl Mayer Textilmaschinenfabrik GmbH from Obertshausen, Germany will exhibit two novel technologies for its raschel machines, which it says are capable of producing a large variety of
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Making up and processing technical textiles and flexible materials

1 February 2011
Co-located with Techtextil to encourage those involved in the making up of technical textiles to join their counterparts in conventional apparel, Texprocess will have plenty of interesting exhibits.
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The carbon fibre conundrum--where will it all come from?

1 February 2011
In our February 2011 issuei, Adrian Wilson drew attention to the push to replace steel with carbon fibre-based composites in the automotive sector.
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Late-comer India now starts to show its appetite for nonwovens

1 February 2011
In the production of nonwovens, India lags behind other emerging economies, but the local industry, aided by the government, is determined to catch up.
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Nonwovens showcase from the biggest and the best at ITMA 2011

1 February 2011
While many builders of nonwovens equipment - notably those dealing in spunmelt technology - consider themselves far removed from conventional textiles, ITMA always reveals plenty of innovation for sta
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Outdoor performance apparel attracts innovation in the USA

1 February 2011
John W. McCurry reviews US developments concerning textile-based products for performance apparel.
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Technologies ready to process the next generation of textiles

1 February 2011
A successful new exhibition showed machinery for the making-up of technical textiles, as well as conventional apparel.
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Textiles demonstrate their smart and light sides at Techtextil

1 February 2011
While reporting on Texprocess in Frankfurt, Germany (see also, pages 19-22), Niki Tait came across some interesting developments in smart textiles at the Techtextil exhibition, which was being held in
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Medical textiles primed to grow with Indian healthcare boom

1 February 2011
Foreign investment, Indian Government incentives and a growing degree of sophistication in the provision of healthcare are creating a favourable market for manufacturers and suppliers of medical texti
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JEC award for Coatema

1 January 2011
Germany's Coatema has just received a JEC Composites Innovation Award for its patented 'Click&Coat' machinery concept which allows the laminating and calendering coating processes to be carried ou
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Deflexion rules the waves with Henri Lloyd

1 January 2011
Dow Corning's Deflexion, a patent-pending protective textile, is being used by market leading marine apparel brand Henri Lloyd in a new range for 2011.
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Glasgow pioneers free Intellectual Property for industry

1 January 2011
In an initiative that has major implications for the UK's innovation-led design and technology industries, the University of Glasgow is to offer Intellectual Property to businesses and entrepreneurs f
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3D knitted fibrin for diabetes treatment

1 January 2011
The Italian Panagenesi project is a joint initiative involving knitting machinery builder Comez, Torcitura di Menaggio, a silk yarn twisting company and Gaetano Rossini Holding, a specialist in the pr
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Konarka's Power Plastic achieves world record 8.3% efficiency

1 January 2011
The National Energy Renewable Laboratory (NREL) has certified that Konarka's organic based photovoltaic (OPV) solar cells based on its Power Plastic have demonstrated a record breaking 8.3% efficiency
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