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Orbus Visual Communications announces acquisition of CRĒO Industrial Arts
May 22nd, 2024
Orbus Visual Communications®, based in Woodridge, Ill., announced its acquisition of CRĒO Industrial Arts in Seattle, Wash. Orbus Visual Communications is a group of brands in North America that specializes in the manufacture of visual communications solutions for exhibits/live events, retail and interiors market segments. CRĒO Industrial Arts is a full-service custom fabricator that has […]
KM Fabrics announces investment in new mill
May 21st, 2024
KM Fabrics, a manufacturer of woven velvets for drapery, upholstery, wrapped panels and specialty applications based in West Greenville, S.C., announced that the company is relocating. KM will relocate by late 2025 a few miles from its current location. The 15-acre property, including a 200,000-square-foot building, will house manufacturing and corporate headquarters. “Weaving and dyeing […]
Outlook 2024 highlights military, policy updates
May 20th, 2024
More than 75 textile leaders gathered at this year’s Outlook® Conference to hear updates on the economy and the top issues facing the industry. The Outlook conference is organized by the U.S. Industrial & Narrow Fabric Institute and the Military Division of the Advanced Textiles Association. This year’s conference was held May 5-7 at the […]
Milliken & Company developing flame-resistant fabrics for NASA
May 17th, 2024
Milliken & Company announced it is working to design and manufacture flame-resistant (FR) undergarment fabric for NASA’s Artemis missions. Artemis III will be the first U.S.-crewed moon mission in over 50 years, planned for launch no earlier than 2026. Milliken is collaborating with global professional services firm Jacobs through the JSC Engineering, Technology & Science II contract […]
INDA and AFS announce partnership for FiltXPO 2025 Conference
May 16th, 2024
The Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) and the American Filtration & Separations Society (AFS) announced they are partnering to create the FiltXPO™ 2025 International Filtration Conference & Exhibition. The conference will co-locate with IDEA®25 from April 29 to May 1, 2025, at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Fla. The theme […]
Carolina Nonwovens announces expansion into Ohio
May 15th, 2024
Carolina Nonwovens LLC, a subsidiary of National Spinning Co. Inc., announced plans to open a new manufacturing plant in Fostoria, Ohio. Currently, equipment is being installed into the facility. The plant is expected to begin operation by the third quarter of 2024. The plant will house a new nonwoven production line and ancillary processes with […]
Patrick Clysdale joins Herculite Products Inc.’s direct sales team
May 14th, 2024
Patrick Clysdale. Image: Herculite Products Inc. Herculite Products Inc. announced that Patrick Clysdale has been hired as the southeastern regional manager for the direct sales team. Clysdale comes to Herculite with nearly 10 years of experience in B2C sales support and over four years in B2B distribution. He was a collegiate baseball player and lives in […]
Nanofabrics can effectively filter dyes from wastewater
May 13th, 2024
A research team at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria is exploring the use of filters made from cellulosic waste to remove potentially harmful dyes from textile wastewater. According to a report in Ecotextile News, the researchers have used waste materials, such as old cleaning cloths and paper cups, which are then used […]
Nanodiamonds used in high tech textiles for cooling
May 13th, 2024
Pulverized nanodiamonds. Photo: Cherry Cai, RMIT University. Researchers from RMIT (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) are using nanodiamonds to develop high-tech textiles that can help people wearing the textile cool down faster. In the study, they coated the fabric made from cotton with nanodiamonds using electrospinning, a voltage-driven technology. As reported on designboom.com, the study found that high-tech […]
Keeping cool
May 13th, 2024
Aersulate nonwovens from Outlast, is the company’s latest development in thermoregulating textiles. Photo: Marie O’Mahony Thermal control is one of the basic functions of textiles for apparel. The key association is that it affords comfort, so it can be tempting not to properly prioritize it, given its other performance factors. Now, from sportswear to workwear, […]