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AATCC names Christina Rapa as president-elect
November 15th, 2024
Christina Rapa, the president-elect of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC), who will serve as president from Jan. 1, 2025, to Dec. 31, 2026. Image: AATCC The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCCA) announced that Christina Rapa has been elected president-elect and will serve as president from Jan. 1, 2025, […]
Goodwill’s initiative to support textile circularity
November 14th, 2024
Most of us are familiar with Goodwill's stores as the last stop for worn and unwanted apparel and home textiles. For 120 years the non-profit organization has prevented useful products from going to waste while providing job training and placement services to individuals with barriers to employment in local communities. Textile donations in the thrift […]
Paper submissions open for 2025 Dornbirn Global Fiber Congress & Innovation Days
November 14th, 2024
The Dornbirn Global Fiber Congress is inviting researchers, experts, manufacturers and practitioners to submit papers for the 64th edition, taking place in September 2025 in Dornbirn, Austria. This congress offers a platform to present research and innovations that will shape the future of the fiber and textile industries. Submissions for the 2025 Dornbirn Global Fiber […]
AATCC announces new 2025 C2C Design & Merchandising Student Competition
November 12th, 2024
The American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC) announced the launch of the 2025 Concept 2 Consumer (C2C) Design & Merchandising Student Competition. The new competition combines the association's design and merchandising competitions to allow students to better showcase their full range of skills. Textile students are invited to design and merchandise an apparel […]
OCSiAl opens new graphene nanotube production facility
November 11th, 2024
OCSiAl, the graphene nanotube technology provider, has opened its first European production facility. Located in Serbia, it will produce TUBALL™ nanotubes and nanotube-based products, marking a significant step forward in integrating nanomaterials into various industries. More than 1,500 companies worldwide, including manufacturers of personal protective equipment (PPE) and industrial textiles, already use graphene nanotubes in […]
MIT’s 4D knit dress created by a robot arm
November 11th, 2024
The heat-activated yarns follow the robot’s sculpting instructions, such as pintucks, an empire waist, or a cinched waist. Photo: MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab | photo by Olivia Mintz. MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab team has developed the 4D Knit Dress, a new way to personalize a dress in any size using a six-axis robot arm (typically used in the automotive industry), […]
Advances in Textile Recycling
November 11th, 2024
Eastman includes waste textiles in its feedstock for molecular recycling. Photo: Eastman. Advanced textile recycling, including chemical, enzymatic, and molecular technologies, is considered by many to be the path to true circularity, making waste into materials not once, but over and over. Globally, 73 percent of collected apparel textile waste, according to the Ellen Macarthur […]
Reduce, reuse, recycle
November 11th, 2024
Earth Day is often credited with turning a counter-culture concern from the 1960s and 70s into a much larger environmental movement. Among the residuals from this 50-year-old awakening is the enduring slogan, “reduce, reuse, recycle,” which offered an easy-to-remember way to encourage people to adopt sustainable practices in their own lives. The idea was to […]
Textiles for the New Space Age
November 11th, 2024
An Emerging Technologies campfire at the Advanced Textiles Association’s 2024 Expo discussed “Textiles for the New Space Age,” and featured three panelists: Juliana Cherston, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Astrophysics at Harvard; Jason Smith, customer solutions and business development lead at Aegis Aerospace Inc.; and Ted Fetterman, vice president of sales and marketing […]
Seshadri Ramkumar, Jayalakshmi Textiles receive Intexcon 2024 award
November 11th, 2024
Seshadri Ramkumar, Ph.D., a professor in the Nonwovens and Advanced Materials Laboratory at Texas Tech University in Labbock, Texas, and Jayalakshmi Textiles were awarded the Intexcon award at the 2024 Intexcon in Ahmedabad, India. The award was presented to the winners in late October by Rajeev Saxena, the joint secretary of India’s Ministry of Textiles. […]