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Dead Sea provides the source for latest range of flame retardants

1 January 2011
A range of flame retardants developed specifically for textiles is the latest product launch from ICL Industrial Products of Beer Sheva, Israel.
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BASF and partners bid to make superabsorbents from carbon dioxide

1 January 2011
Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has pledged Euro2.2 million in funds for a project to make sodium acrylate from carbon dioxide (CO2) and ethylene.
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SSM evaluating surface treatment for racing car suits

1 December 2010
Technology that could be used to make the personal protective apparel worn by team members competing in the USA's National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) will be supplied as the result
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SmartSilver antimicrobials launched in India

1 December 2010
NanoHorizons Inc is to sell its SmartSilver anti - microbial products in India with the aid of its partner Indorama Polyester Industries (IPI) Ltd of Thailand.
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Repellent technologies are the foundation for new companies

1 December 2010
Repellence, whether it is to harmful insects or to water, is a critical quality in performance apparel and other textiles for high-technology applications. John W.
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Huntsman adds three more treatments to High IQ range

1 July 2010
Huntsman Textile Effects has added three finishes to its High IQ(r) brand, including High IQ Clean and Dry Comfort, which is used to prevent water from penetrating the fabric to give the wearer a clea
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Rapid progress towards commercial industrial ink-jet printer

1 July 2010
Xennia Technology Ltd and Reggiani Macchine SpA have completed a full-scale demonstration model of their diagonal, multi-pass digital ink-jet textile printer.
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Breakthrough coating technologies

1 May 2010
Breakthrough Coating Technologies for Advanced Textiles is the subject of the keynote talk announced for the International Conference on Textile Coating and Laminating (TCL) to be held in Cannes, Fran
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US military demonstrates viability of reactive surface treatment

1 May 2010
US Air Force trials have successfully demonstrated the feasibility of using a novel surface treatment to apply multiple functions to textiles in a single commercial-scale process.
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Diffusion agent for polyester

1 February 2010
Univadine DFM is the latest diffusion agent from Huntsman Textile Effects, which it has developed for polyester and its blends.
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Pre-treatment for high-quality inkjet printing

1 September 2009
DuPont has developed a pre-treatment that it claims allows for high-colour, high-quality inkjet printing on fabrics such as cotton and cotton blends.
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Disperse dyes chosen for their environmental credentials

1 September 2009
DyStar has identified a range of its Dianix disperse dyes that it says will meet the specifications of leading brands' and retailers' restricted substances lists (RSLs) as well as their requirements f
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Durable hydrophobic treatment

1 September 2009
Researchers in The Netherlands claim to have found a way to give fabrics with large surface areas a hydrophobic finish that is durable, does not add significantly to the weight and is economical to ap
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Stain repellent and stain releasing, but safer to use

1 August 2009
Based on a chemistry that is said to be less damaging to the environment and the user's health, BASF has launched two textile finishing systems, one to give textiles stain repellence and one to aid st
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Fixing agent from Huntsman

1 June 2009
Huntsman Textile Effects has launched a fixing agent called Erional(r) FRN.
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Nanoparticles added to improve dyeing of aramids

1 February 2009
French researchers have reported a way to modify aramid fibres in order to improve their capacity to be dyed.
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One-stage microwave treatment confers multiple functionalities

1 January 2009
A one-stage treatment requiring only a 30 s cure in a conventional microwave oven is capable of providing a cotton/polyamide (PA) fabric with multiple function - alities, its developers claim.
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Devan Chemicals acquires Portuguese micro-encapsulation specialist

1 November 2008
Belgium's Devan Chemicals NV has acquired a Portuguese company that specializes in microencapsulation and hydrogel technologies.
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Protection from ultraviolet radiation

1 September 2008
Schoeller has introduced a finishing technology that offers protection from the sun.
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Aqueous dispersions of microcapsules

1 September 2008
Workers at Cognis - a supplier of innovative speciality chemicals based in Dusseldorf,Germany - have developed aqueous dispersions of microcapsules especially, they claim, for imparting properties to
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Hydrodynamic needling of fabrics

1 July 2008
German machine builder Fleissner has proposed a modification to the hydrodynamic needling of woven fabrics in order to ensure the even treatment of all filaments in the textile.
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Schoeller and Clariant cooperation leads to improved NanoSphere

1 June 2008
Following last year's announcement of the strategic distribution partnership between Schoeller TechnologiesAG and Clariant, the companies have worked together to bring a new NanoSphere finish to the m
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Permanent flame-retardant treatment for wool

1 May 2008

A treatment that imparts flame-retardant (FR) properties to fibre blends containing 30-100% wool does not lose its effectiveness when the textile comes into contact with water, according to Interna

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Protection for residential and commercial fabrics

1 December 2007
DuroTextiles of Fall River,Massachusetts,USA, has introduced a range of protective solutions for residential and commercial fabrics called Defense.
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Direct or transfer printing are combined in a single model

1 September 2007
Multi-Plot Europe of Bad Emstal, Germany, has introduced a digital textile printer--d.gen Arachne Combo.
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Polyelectrolytic complexes provide durability to added-value

1 July 2007
NanoTex LLC of Oakland, California, USA, has patented a way to impart a performance enhancing property to a fabric that is claimed to be durable enough to withstand many (25 or more) domestic launderi
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Ink-printed web with rub-off resistance

1 July 2007
US Patent 7 205 041 discloses methods of printing nonwoven substrates with inks that subsequently are difficult to rub off.
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Phase-change inks

1 April 2007
Xerox Corp of Stamford, Connecticut, USA, has developed two kinds of phase-change inks as well as means of making them.
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Enzyme to help minimize pilling in polyester-based fabrics

1 February 2007
A polyester hydrolytic enzyme can reduce the propensity to pilling and/or improve the colour clarity of polyester fabrics without the need to use a detergent, according to Novozymes North America Inc.
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Cold plasma treatments

1 February 2007
A surface treatment for materials, including textiles, that reduces the need for using large quantities of water, as well as polluting and toxic substances, is the subject of International Patent WO 0
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Copying nature to achieve stain-resistance

1 October 2006
Taiwan's Formosa Taffeta Co Ltd has patented (European Patent EP 1652995) a method for making fabrics with a durable stain-resistant finish that is also waterproof.
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Assembling garments without sewing

1 October 2006
US Patent 6 622 312 discloses a method for attaching elastic or decorative trimmings along the edges of garments without the need for sewing operations.
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Controlled-release substrate

1 September 2006
A flexible textile-based material that allows for the controlled release of a microencapsulated substance is the subject of International Patent WO 2004/048678.
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High-temperature wash durability

1 June 2006
Treatments based on silver ions improve the durability to high-temperature washing and reduce the discolouration of fabrics, according to USA's Milliken & Co.
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Mercerising fibres and slivers

1 May 2006
Australian researchers report they have developed a novel way to mercerise cellulosic fibres.
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Polymer-grafted cotton can stretch

1 April 2006
A process for treating cotton and poly/cotton fabrics to improve colour-fastness, abrasion and shrinkage resistances, stain resistance and handle, also improves fabric stretch recovery, claims the inv
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Plasma treatment creates stable water resistance

1 December 2005
A plasma treatment for materials, particularly all kinds of textiles, has been developed in Italy by Universita' Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and Stazione Sperimentale per la Seta, both in Milan.
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Easy-care cellulosics

1 September 2005
A Chinese company has patented a process to render cotton fabric resistant to creasing and shrinking despite repeated laundering.
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Sublimation transfer paper for cotton fabrics

1 August 2005
Since the advent of transfer printing - largely restricted to polyester fabric - there has been a search for a process that could be applied to cotton while retaining the attractions of this dry proce
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Disparate finishing made lighter

1 June 2005
Malden Mills Industries claims to have developed a process that can be applied to a raised, knitted fabric to render it absorbent to moisture and/or water on one face while the other is repellent.
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Functionalization of textile fibres using plasma-based technology

1 May 2005
It is well known that textile fibre surfaces play a key role in textile processing and application technology.
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Textile chemicals producers switch focus to technical applications

1 May 2005
Talking to the world's leading producers of textile dyes and chemicals,Phil Owen has identified patterns of change in the industry: a growing focus on technical uses, accompanied by significant reloca
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Improving productivity and quality with laser seaming of fabrics

1 May 2005
TWI's Ian Jones says that greater automation,increased productivity and higher quality will all result from the use of laser welding to replace traditional processes for seaming fabrics.
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Plasma treatment can apply liquid repellency to any material

1 May 2005
P2i, a spin-out company from the UK's Ministry of Defence, has been formed to exploit plasma processing originally designed to enhance military garments.
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Better fastness on polyester

1 April 2005
A system for improving the rub fastness of dyed polyester fabrics and yarns has been introduced by Precision Processes Textiles (PPT) of Belper, UK.
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Hydro-treatments confer three-dimensional images to textiles

1 March 2005
USA's Polymer Group Inc (PGI) says it has found a way to transfer an image or pattern to a pre-coloured fibrous component of a woven fabric by means of a hydraulic treatment.
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Printing for high visibility

1 February 2005
A printing technique capable of producing retroflective fabrics is described in European Patent EP 1 431 449.
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Fluorinated polyethers

1 January 2005
A technique for applying a shrink-resist treatment to textiles that also provides water-, oil- and stain-repellency has been developed by Precision Processes Textiles Ltd of Ambergate, UK.
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Cutting and sealing

1 October 2004
A method of thermally cutting and sealing the edge of a running web is the subject of US Patent 6 681 668.
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Apparently space-dyed

1 June 2004
USA's Prisma Fibers Inc says it has devised a way to combine single colour feed yarns to simulate space-dyed effects, without the need for twisting or heat-setting.
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