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Better Cotton updates field-level Principles & Criteria
April 20th, 2023
Photo: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has revised its Principles & Criteria (P&C) to ensure it remains an effective tool to drive continuous improvement and deliver sustainability impact at field-level. The P&C define the organization’s approach to more sustainable cotton production and establish the requirements farmers […]
ANDRITZ, Nouvelles Fibres Textiles, Pellenc ST partner for textile recycling
April 17th, 2023
International technology group ANDRITZ entered an ambitious partnership with Pellenc ST and Nouvelles Fibres Textiles to set up the very first industrial-scale automatic textile sorting line in France combining automated sorting and recycling technology. The partners have expert knowledge from decades of experience in sorting technologies (Pellenc ST), textile machinery and processes (ANDRITZ), as well […]
Apex Mills appoints Joan Izzo as senior marketing manager
April 13th, 2023
Apex Mills, a fully integrated domestic supplier and manufacturer of custom technical and specialty textiles and fabrics, has named Joan Izzo as new Senior Marketing Manager. She will build greater awareness of the company brand as an innovative supplier and fabricator as well as promote newly expanded capabilities. She brings 25 years of experience with […]
Radford to manage dyehouse for Champion Thread
April 12th, 2023
Champion Thread Company, a manufacturer and marketer of industrial sewing threads, engineered yarns, and other textile and sewn products accessories, welcomes package dyeing expert Larry Radford to the role of Dyehouse Manager for its all-new, South Carolina thread and yarn dyeing facility. Radford brings over two decades of dyehouse color lab, production technology, and operations […]
Lectra opens new U.S. manufacturing facility
April 11th, 2023
Lectra celebrated the inauguration of its manufacturing facility in Tolland, Conn. The implementation of operations in this facility marks an important milestone in Lectra’s 2023-2025 strategic roadmap as the company expedites bringing manufacturing in-house for improved quality and customer satisfaction. With this additional factory, Lectra’s complete line of single ply cutters, including the Z1, Taurus, […]
Washing the clothes—and the bag they came in
April 10th, 2023
The Zero Bag clothing package dissolves in water. Photo: Keongho Park and Yejin Heo. Keongho Park & Yejin Heo, designers from the Republic of Korea, have created a new clothing package that not only dissolves in water but disperses washing detergents. After receiving the clothes wrapped in the “Zero Bag,” both the clothes and packaging […]
Re-defining soft robotics with self-healing, conductive gel
April 10th, 2023
An external strip of the gel connects the battery to the motor on this soft robotic snail. Photo: Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering. A new material could help produce self-healing and conductive robotic devices that are also soft. Developed by a team of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, the substance consists of a gelatinous […]
New plant-based fabric technology passes EPA hurdle
April 10th, 2023
Noble Biomaterials, a producer of antimicrobial solutions for soft surface applications, announces that its latest antimicrobial technology has received official Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) registration. Ionic+® Botanical uses a bio-based registered citric acid formula to inhibit the growth of microbes and reduce odor on fabric and other soft surfaces. The company began development of the proprietary […]
New color-changing fabric technology announced
April 10th, 2023
Fiber optic and fiber-device scientists in the laboratories of the University of Central Florida (UCF) have developed a new technology for an innovative textile that changes color and appearance on demand. The scientists believe ChroMorphous technology is a first in e-textiles and fabrics, as older versions of color-changing fabrics need sunlight or body heat to […]
Microscale knots double tensile strength of new material
April 10th, 2023
An artist's illustration of the structure of a new material made up of knots. Image: Caltech Knots are known for boosting the strength of materials, from the tiniest twists of DNA to (potentially) the very fabric of the universe. The California Institute of Technology in Pasadena (Caltech) reports that engineers there have now developed a new material consisting […]