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President Trump signs National Defense Authorization Act
December 19th, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump passed the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) Dec. 18. The U.S. Senate and House passed the act earlier this month, following the reconciliation of the House and Senate versions of the bill in a conference committee. The final NDAA retains the Simplified Acquisition Threshold (SAT) level under the […]
RTI International, LOOM Carbon announce research collaboration
December 18th, 2025
Image: RTI International RTI International, an independent scientific research institute, and LOOM Carbon have announced a strategic research collaboration. The partnership will enable the scaling of LOOM’s proprietary thermal chemical recycling platform, which turns non-recycled and hard-to-recycle textile waste into sustainable carbon-neutral materials. LOOM Carbon’s process converts mixed and contaminated textiles into outputs, including: Circular pigments […]
Registration opens for 2026 Advancements in Manufacturing Technologies Conference
December 18th, 2025
Image: SPESA Sewn Products Equipment & Suppliers of the Americas (SPESA) has announced that early bird registration is open for its 2026 Advancements in Manufacturing Technologies Conference. The conference will take place on Tues., April 14, 2026, in Columbus, Ohio. The event will be hosted at the Columbus Fashion Alliance’s (CFA's) flagship location, The LOOM, […]
SuperCircle raises $24 million series A to scale retail waste management operating system
December 17th, 2025
Image: SuperCircle SuperCircle, a textile waste management platform for retail brands, announced that the company has received $24 million in Series A funding led by Foundry. Other investors included BBG Ventures, Renewal Fund and Elemental Impact. The funding will allow SuperCircle to expand its artificial intelligence-powered operating system. SuperCircle provides post-consumer and post-industrial end-of-life optimization […]
AFFOA product accelerator program accepting project proposals
December 16th, 2025
Image: AFFOA Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) announced the third round of its Product Accelerator for Functional Fabrics (PAFF 3.0). The program provides U.S textile manufacturers and startups access to AFFOA's technical expertise and resources, with AFFOA covering labor costs enabled by government funding. PAFF 3.0 expands the program's scope to accelerate digital engineering/manufacturing […]
Finger bandage-like device can “feel the digital world”
December 15th, 2025
A bandage-like device can create digital touch that replicates human touch. Photo: Northwestern University. Engineers at Northwestern University have created VoxeLite, a bandage-like device that stretches around the fingertip to let users “feel the digital world.” Comprised of a series of nodes, the wrap helps create digital touch that replicates the way a human fingertip senses real-life touch. This […]
San Francisco Fire Dept. adopts non-PFAS turnout gear
December 15th, 2025
A San Francisco firefighter is dressed in the department’s new non-PFAS gear. Photo: San Francisco Fire Department. Photo: Milliken. The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) says that it is has become the largest department in the U.S. to transition its entire fleet to non-PFAS turnout gear. This major purchase was made in part through a […]
Protecting the protectors
December 15th, 2025
With the proliferation of smart textiles and their new technologies and applications, one finds it relatively easy to pair almost any other topic we discuss in this publication with smart textiles in general, or e-textiles in particular. In this case, our feature, “Wearables lead protective market advances” by Dr. Marie O’Mahony, ties in with our focus […]
Wearables lead protective market advances
December 15th, 2025
E-textiles 2025, the 7th International Conference on Electronic Textiles, was held from November 12-14, 2025, at ENSAIT (University of Lille) in Roubaix, France. Photo: Marie O’Mahony. Protective clothing is becoming smarter, with e-textiles bringing new capability in health and environmental monitoring that’s paired with location tracking to offer protection for workers in hazardous locations. At E-Textiles 2025 in […]
Study shows advantages of new wound healing technology
December 15th, 2025
Researchers studied new wound-healing technologies and found them to be superior to more conventional therapies and dressings. Photo: NTU. From silver nanofibers to smart, sensory-packed dressings, the next generation of wound-healing technology is blurring the line between biology and engineering. As scientific understanding and technology have improved, so, too, have the approaches developed to aid […]