WELCOME TO TECHNICAL-TEXTILES.NET, the web's most comprehensive source of information about the world of performance and technical textiles. Full membership gives access to: unique feature articles; relevant, edited and verified news; events and more, to keep you up to date with the latest developments in materials, technologies, processes, patents and research, and business and markets

News

US men's suits get functional with Resist Spills

1 January 2007
Perry Ellis and Hart Schaffner Marx have incorporated Nano Tex's Resist Spills fabric treatment into their latest lines of men's suits and separates.
Read more

Nanotech venture capital to exceed $650 million in 2006

1 January 2007
Venture capitalists continue to devote cash to nanotechnology start-up companies, but, with the long expected time from investment to exit of six years - twice what VCs expect for investments in other
Read more

Latest Philips garments explore emotional sensing

1 January 2007
Philips Design has developed a series of dynamic garments as part of its ongoing SKIN exploratory research into the area of 'emotional sensing'.
Read more

Eleksen reports strong profits and Zegna deal

1 January 2007
Eleksen reports that between January and June 2006 its sales were GBP1.8 million - representing an increase of 622% on the same period in 2005.
Read more

Shape memory experiments in space

1 January 2007
Tembo elastic memory composite hinges manufactured by Composite Technology Development (CTD), based in Lafayette, Colorado, USA, are to be tested on the International Space Station (ISS).
Read more

PowerMatrix range of smart fabrics from Sefar

1 January 2007
Swiss headquartered Sefar AG now offers a range of woven smart fabrics based on its PowerMatrix hybrid of polyester and copper monofilaments in warp and weft.
Read more

Levi's Redwire in India

1 January 2007
Levi's has now launched its Redwire DLX iPod-compatible jeans in India, retailing at Rupees 9,000 (US$201), making them a little cheaper than the US$250 they are prices at on
Read more

Strong first year for new fluid printer

1 January 2007
Fujifilm Dimatix reports that it shipped more than 5,000 Dimatix materials cartridges and around 100 full Dimatix Materials Printer (DMP) systems to customers in the first year of production.
Read more

Music in the air at CSIRO

1 January 2007
The smart fabrics story that has taken the international media by storm recently is CSIRO's 'air guitar' shirt.
Read more

Auxetic fibres for bomb-proof curtains

1 January 2007
Engineers from the University of Exeter in the UK are working on a new project to create curtains made from a smart material that could minimise injuries inflicted by a terrorist attack.
Read more

NaturalNano runs machine-scale tests

1 January 2007
New York-headquartered NaturalNano has announced the first successful manufacturing-scale-trial of its halloysite clay nanotube technology,
Read more

US college invests $190 million in new materials complex

1 January 2007
With a total investment of $190 million, Pennsylvania State University will construct a new 350,000-square-foot materials/life science research facility at its University Park campus.
Read more

Nanoledge to be supplied with Arkema CNTs

1 January 2007
Arkema of France is to supply multiwalled carbon nanotubes to Nanoledge for incorporation into nanotube-resin composites.
Read more

Nanocoating installation for AP & C

1 January 2007
Advanced Powders and Coatings (AP & C), a subsidiary of Raymor Industries, is currently expanding its thermal spray coating production capacity at its new facility in Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada, t
Read more

New luminous knitted fabrics for cars

1 January 2007
Automotive interiors specialist Eybl International reports that it has developed a luminous textile which works in three dimensions.
Read more

Innovation award for Schoeller's c_change

1 January 2007
Schoeller Textil AG of Switzerland has received the 2006 Frost and Sullivan Product Innovation of the Year Award.
Read more

Smart Fabrics 2007 rescheduled

1 January 2007
Intertech-Pira has rescheduled its Smart Fabrics 2007 conference which will now be held on May 7-9, 2007 at the Washington Marriott in Washington DC, USA.
Read more

NanoSolutions and Material Vision to be held in parallel in 2007

1 January 2007
Materials technology and its continued development via nanonottechnology is of decisive importance for Germany's future.
Read more

New face at Textronics

1 January 2007
Textronics has named Geoffrey Lapres as chief financial officer (CFO).
Read more

New tools for the nanoscale

1 January 2007
FEI Company is expanding its Helios NanoLab family of DualBeams with the introduction of the Helios NanoLab 400 and 400S systems.
Read more
XXXX