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Artist depicts the impact of textile waste
June 24th, 2024
Artist Ilaria Marzanohe depcts Washington Square in New York City blanketed by the textile waste generated in just one month. Image: Ilaria Marzano. Ilaria Marzano’s artwork Back To Square One confronts us with a bleak scenario: what if textile remnants from Accra, a city in Ghana, where the West discards 15 million garments weekly, were […]
Passive cooling fabric protects from thermal radiation
June 24th, 2024
The new cooling textile reflects both direct sunlight and the thermal radiation from pavement and buildings in urban heat islands. Photo: University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering. In an effort to counter rising heat waves induced by climate change, researchers have created a wearable fabric that can reduce heat from the sun and […]
FLOAT designed for moving on the Moon
June 24th, 2024
Artist concept of a novel approach for transport on the moon. It was proposed by a 2024 NIAC Phase II awardee for possible future missions. Depiction is the lunar surface with planet Earth on the horizon. Image: Ethan Schaler. NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) 2024 Phase II awardee Ethan Schaler has proposed the first lunar […]
Energy harvesting smart fabrics
June 24th, 2024
The global energy harvesting market is expected to reach $0.9 billion by 2028 according to a Markets and Markets report published in 2023. Image: Markets and Markets. Energy harvesting accounts for the largest market share of the global smart textiles market by functionality, according to a recent report by Impactful Insights. The report puts the value […]
Partnership will scale up decarbonized, circular polyester
June 24th, 2024
Hyosung TNC, sustainable textile maker, says that it has partnered with Ambercycle, a material science company, to become the first manufacturer in South Korea to introduce a textile-to-textile, circular polyester into supply chains. The collaboration advances the partners' shared vision of a circular textile ecosystem that repurposes end-of-life products into high-performing fibers for brands looking to curb […]
Wilkie Technical Textiles partners with Ocean State Innovations
June 24th, 2024
Wilkie Technical Textiles, a technical textile provider based in Lowell, Mass., announced the company has partnered with Ocean State Innovations (OSI). OSI will now serve as the primary liaison for a variety of Wilkie America products manufactured in Lowell. Wilkie America has capabilities for applying a broad range of polymer coatings onto textile substates for […]
Panda Biotech holds grand opening of industrial hemp facility
June 21st, 2024
Panda Biotech, an industrial hemp manufacturer based in Texas, along with Panda Hemp Gin equity partner, The Southern Ute Indian Tribe, celebrated the grand opening of its industrial hemp facility in Wichita Falls, Texas, on June 12. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was celebrated at the 500,000 square foot facility. Ceremony speakers included Wichita Falls Chamber of […]
Ecobanner by GALE Pacific wins WOO award for sustainability
June 19th, 2024
GALE Pacific™, a technical fabric solutions provider based in Malborne, Australia, announced that Ecobanner has won the sustainability award at the World Out of Home Organization (WOO) Awards. The award was accepted by WOO’s partner oOh!media. The awards were announced at WOO’s annual Congress in Hong Kong and recognize innovation that marks an important step […]
FibreTrace announces partnership with Target and Cargill
June 18th, 2024
FibreTrace®, a real-time fiber traceability technology, has announced a partnership with Target Corp. and Cargill. FibreTrace integrates luminescent pigments into raw cotton during the initial stage of processing, creating a unique signature that enables the pigments to be tracked and identified across the supply chain. This data is then securely uploaded to Blockchain and shared […]
Juki America announces partnership with Coloreel
June 14th, 2024
Torbjörn Bäck (left), Coloreel CEO, and Masanori Awasaki (right), president and CEO Juki America. Image: Juki America/Coloreel Juki America, an industrial and domestic sewing machine manufacturer based in Tokyo, Japan, and Coloreel, a technology company based in Jönköping, Sweden, announced the two companies are partnering to expand Coloreel’s thread dyeing technology to the sewing industry. […]