Thermal mats designed to reduce energy use

March 24, 2025  |  EcoNote

Flint Engineering says that its new, flat, thermal-transfer IsoMat can power entire homes, cut refrigerator energy consumption by 30 percent, and speed up EV charging, while also extending battery life. All this can be accomplished, it says, by moving heat from one place to another in a quick and ef…
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Solar film can generate energy almost anywhere

March 10, 2025  |  EcoNote

U.K.-based Power Roll has been working on a way to print low-cost solar film to generate clean energy from sunlight. It's now one crucial step closer to manufacturing its lightweight, apply-anywhere film, with a new design for its solar cells. In collaboration with researchers at the University of S…
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Nibertex announces funding to scale up production 

February 24, 2025  |  EcoNote

Nibertex, maker of waterproof breathable membranes, has successfully closed its pre-Series A funding round with participation from Foxmont Capital Partners and ADB Ventures. The Nibertex manufacturing facility in the Philippines, where PFAS-free electrospun polyurethane membranes are produced, is en…
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DataBeyond launches an optical sorter for blended fabrics

January 27, 2025  |  EcoNote

Chinese company DataBeyond Technology has officially launched China's first "AI Hyperspectral Optical Sorter for Blended Fabrics," which integrates advanced artificial intelligence algorithms with hyperspectral recognition technology. According to DataBeyond, this breakthrough successfully address…
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Makalot sets new benchmark for a sustainable operation

January 27, 2025  |  EcoNote

Global textile and apparel provider Makalot Industrial Co. Ltd., baseds in Taiwan, says that it’s setting a new benchmark for sustainable manufacturing as it advances toward its Net Zero 2050 commitment.
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Milliken announces partnership with Tidal Vision

January 13, 2025  |  EcoNote

Global manufacturer Milliken & Co., Spartanburg, S.C., has announced its investment and partnership with Tidal Vision, a biomolecular technologies company headquartered in Bellingham, Wash., that has developed a technology using chitosan for scalable solutions in critical industries. The partner…
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Partnership promotes cleaner fabric dye and finishing

December 16, 2024  |  EcoNote

Green Theme Technologies (GTT), based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has teamed up with Golden Long John to promote the next generation of cleaner and more efficient fabric dye and finishing processes. GTT is the creator of the waterless and PFAS-free EMPEL® textile finishing platform. An extremely du…
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Biodegradable jacket wins ISPO Award

December 9, 2024  |  EcoNote

A new, 99+ percent biodegradable, down puffy jacket collaboration is a 2024 ISPO Award winner. ALLIED Feather + Down, Vernon, Calif., providers of high performance, ethically sourced and recycled down, worked in partnership with global performance wear manufacturer Active Apparel Group and luxury ou…
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Discarded silk yarn can clean up polluted waterways

November 18, 2024  |  EcoNote

Cornell University researchers have developed a sustainable way to clean up waterways by reusing one waste product to remove another. Led by Larissa Shepherd, assistant professor in the Dept. of Human Centered Design, College of Human Ecology, the team has proposed using discarded silk yarn for the…
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OXMAN announces the O° biodegradable shoe 

November 18, 2024  |  EcoNote

Design lab OXMAN has unveiled the O° Shoe, a 100 percent biodegradable shoe made without petrochemicals, and which produces no microplastics. The company, headquartered in New York, N.Y., says its mission is to create and deliver nature-centric products and environments to its clients and the natur…
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