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Apr 17, 2024 · Awards illustrate how textile solutions are driving future developments in a range of industries. © Messe Frankfurt 17th April 2024 Adrian Wilson Frankfurt Transport ...

Feb 15, 2022 · First scalable large-area complex system integrated into textiles using an entirely fibre-based manufacturing approach. Smart sensors, energy harvesting and storage ...

New 21st Century Innovations in Technical Textiles is a new publication brought to you by Inside Textiles Ltd, publisher of Innovation in Textiles. The 36-page digital publication (PDF) highlights recent significant developments in technical textiles and is essential reading for all industry professionals, as well as researchers, product developers, specifiers and those involved in the ...

Mar 6, 2024 · Growth rates for 2019-23 were 6.9% in volume and 6.7% in value, reflecting a recovery in some markets from Covid-19 as well as an adjustment to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and its repercussions – inflation, energy supply/price and global economic growth reductions. Other external factors affecting industrial nonwovens include China’s slowing …

A new publication from Innovation in Textiles – ‘21st Century Innovations in Technical Textiles’ aims to guide you through some of the areas in which considerable innovation in textiles is underway – from basic polymer and fibre science breakthroughs to the processing technologies which will have a momentous role in shaping the future. 21st Century Innovations in Technical …

Jun 13, 2018 · EPFL scientists have found a fast and simple way to make super-elastic, multi-material, high-performance fibres, which have already been used as sensors on robotic fingers and in clothing. This method opens the door to new kinds of smart textiles and medical implants, according to the team of scientists.

Feb 26, 2024 · Comparisons with incumbent products are unhelpful in what should be should be considered an entirely new and value-added class of materials, panellists stress ...

Let’s take a quick look at what’s been happening on Innovation in Textiles over the last few days. A start-up Netherlands-based company called Elasol, established in 2012, has developed a technology that uses an innovative elastic, warp-knit textile in an intelligent system to help balance sunlight, shade, temperature and humidity in greenhouses. In Knitted screen offers flexible …

Oct 30, 2023 · Fibreobo is a new fibre developed at MIT that contracts in response to an increase in temperature and self-reverses once the temperature decreases, without any embedded sensors or other hard components.