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

Fibres, filaments and yarns

Flattened fibres help to make improved nonwovens

1 May 2003
Partially or wholly flat synthetic fibres for making strong nonwovens with low basis weights are disclosed in US Patent 6 485 828.
Read more

Open-end spun yarns are softer

1 April 2003
Sara Lee Corp discloses a process for making softer handling open-end spun yarns in US Patent 6 477 826.
Read more

Potential for wool-based medical textiles examined

1 April 2003
A feasibility study to examine the potential of woolbased medical textiles is to be carried out by Australian Wool Innovation (AWI) in conjunction with a leading international pharmaceutical company.
Read more

Electro-spinning process makes starch filaments

1 April 2003
Humatro Corp has invented a radically new type of fibrous structure.
Read more

Expanding yarns

1 April 2003
A yarn that expands when heated is the subject of US Patent 6 460 320.
Read more

Polylactide acid commercialized

1 March 2003
Cargill Dow has branded its polylactide (PLA) fibre as Ingeo. At the recent Heimtextil the fibre, formerly known as NatureWorks, was evident in a number of bedding products.
Read more

Biodegradable superabsorbents based on L-aspartic acid

1 March 2003
Superabsorbent fibre and film compositions based on L-aspartic acid are described in US Patent 6 465 536 Solutia.
Read more

Elastomeric alternative

1 March 2003
Dow Fiber Solutions has introduced a new generic synthetic fibre. The company is marketing it as Dow XLA, while the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has given it the generic description lastol.
Read more

Melt-blown lyocell

1 March 2003
A melt-blowing technique for lyocell is disclosed in US Patent 6 306 334 by the US pulp giant The Weyerhaeuser Co.
Read more

Thermal resistance

1 February 2003
Spanish company Relats SA has developed a silicon dioxide fibre that it claims offers better thermal resistance.
Read more

Yarn creates self-coating fabrics

1 February 2003
Glen Raven Inc has developed a yarn that can serve to stabilize fabrics used outdoors.
Read more

Superabsorbents

1 February 2003
BASF AG is developing multicomponent superabsorbent fibres containing at least one acidic waterabsorbing resin and a basic water-absorbing resin.
Read more

Otsuka Chemical offers conductive skin-core fibre for protection

1 February 2003
Japan's Otsuka Chemical has developed a conductive fibre as part of its research into bicomponent skin-core fibres intended to offer protection from electromagnetic radiation.
Read more

Fuji develops fibre to treat skin

1 February 2003
Fuji Spinning Co Ltd, Tokyo, Japan, describes a functionalized fibre in European Patent 1 188 855.
Read more

Polyester for nonwovens

1 January 2003
Toyo Boseki KK has developed hydrophilic polyester supplied as an aqueous dispersion that is intended for making nonwovens.
Read more

Diamond coatings for aramids

1 January 2003
A diamond-like coating (DLC) improves the flexural rigidity of aramid fibres and suppresses their low yielding behaviour, according to US inventors.
Read more

Hydrophilic fibre excels in high-speed processability

1 January 2003
A hydrophilic fibre claimed to excel in high-speed processability has been developed by Chisso.
Read more

Conductive fibres

1 January 2003
A Japanese firm has patented a fine electrically conductive fibre, as well as a conductive yarn made from the fibre.
Read more

Lower shrinkage polypropylene

1 January 2003
A US company claims to have found a way to make polypropylene fibres with lower shrinkage.
Read more
XXXX