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Light capture with a twist
November 13th, 2023
Conferences aim to inform and surprise delegates, so in inviting Dr. Mridula Nair from Kodak as this year’s Emerging Technologies Conference plenary speaker, curiosity was undoubtedly aroused—Kodak and textiles! Nair is a research fellow and distinguished inventor at Kodak, serving as senior principal scientist for Kodak’s Kodalux Light Blocking coated textile business. The first surprise […]
Nobody said this would be easy
November 13th, 2023
You might think that after several years of attending the Advanced Textiles Association’s Expo, it would be pretty repetitious, but I can assure you, it’s really not. Since I work in a market area (emerging technologies) that’s always changing (and expanding, I might add), there are always new technologies, new people, new products and new […]
The move to digitize engineering in textile products
November 13th, 2023
Dr. Caitlin Knowles, e-textile device engineer with AFFOA, moderated a panel at ATA’s Emerging Technologies Conference that featured Graham Sullivan, CEO of SEDDI Inc., which supplies newly created digital data and design development tools to the garment industry, and Dr. Matthew Trexler, director of materials science innovation research with Under Armour. The topic was “Developments […]
Smart textiles in automotives
November 13th, 2023
Smart door trim showing some of the application areas for smart textiles in automotive door trim from Inteva. Photo: Marie O’Mahony Many of the developments in smart textiles are focused on the fiber and textile structure. However, there is a growing opportunity for the use of textiles within flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) that is of […]
Taking on the wearables challenges
November 13th, 2023
AFFOA showed a newly developed material for smart products in their booth on the show floor at Advanced Textiles Expo in Orlando. It describes the material as a “flexible, roll-to-roll, inkjet manufacturable, RF metamaterial for wearables.” Photo: Janet Preus. The Emerging Technologies Conference, part of the Advanced Textiles Association’s annual Expo, revealed the diversity in […]
Better Cotton revolutionizes cotton sector with traceability solution
November 3rd, 2023
Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, has officially launched a first-of-its-kind traceability solution for the fashion and textile sectors. The solution has been developed over three years and will provide visibility of cotton’s journey through the supply chain by logging stakeholder input on the Better Cotton Platform. The organization has worked closely with […]
Advanced Textiles Expo 2023 Show Stoppers
November 1st, 2023
Here are the 2023 Show Stopper Awards recently announced at the Advanced Textiles Expo in Orlando, Fla. The Show Stopper program is designed to recognize the most popular new products each year from Advanced Textiles Expo (formerly IFAI Expo) exhibitors. The awards acknowledge the newest, most innovative, useful and exciting, effective, efficient and economical entries, […]