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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…