Oeko-Tex Association has as usual updated the applicable test criteria and limit values for product certification in accordance with Oeko-Tex Standard 100 at the start of the new year. After a three month transition period, the new ...
Tags: decoration materials, OEKO system, Textile
In its study "A little story about the monsters in your closet" published in mid January, the environmental organization Greenpeace criticized numerous discoveries of harmful substances in children's clothing from renowned brand ...
Tags: children's clothing, skin contact, health
The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) has awarded nine new vehicles covering a diverse range of classes and price points its maximum five-star safety rating. The newly released Fiat Panda, Ford EcoSport, Isuzu D-Max ...
Tags: Five-Star Safety Ratings, ANCAP
Clariant, a world leader in specialty chemicals, is supporting the use of Green Chemistry to create safer, fire retarded polyurethane (PU) foams for the upholstery sector. Research by Green Urethanes Ltd, the provider of green solutions to ...
Tags: Textile
The OEKO-TEX Secretariat was established 20 years ago in Switzerland and for this reason, this year's meeting of the OEKO-TEX General Managers on November 14th and 15th took place in Lucerne - at the heart of Europe and Switzerland. With ...
The Nissan Juke and Pathfinder SUVs have both been awarded five-star safety ratings by independent crash-tester ANCAP (Australasian New Car Assessment Program). ANCAP says the maximum five-star result applies to naturally aspirated ...
Tags: Nissan Juke, Safety Ratings
With regard to product certification according to OEKO-TEX Standard 100, the OEKO-TEX Association has as usual updated the applicable test criteria and limit values at the beginning of year. After a three-month transitional period the ...
Tags: OEKO TEX, test criteria, limit values, textile
What began 125 years ago as a modest corset creation business in a small barn in Heubach in Württemberg in South-West Germany has now developed into one of the world's leading producers of lingerie and underwear. Then as now customer ...
Tags: Oek Tex, modest corset, lingerie, underwear
Parquet flooring -- just pieces of wood? Think again. The production of parquet wood flooring places high demands on the quality of raw material. A German flooring manufacturer is using a machine vision system with 5 IDS cameras to check ...
Tags: Cameras, wood flooring, IDS cameras, testing system
The Porsche Panamera: a really fast washing machine ?Jaguar XJL: a leather-lined toaster? Audi A8: an aluminum-crafted blender made for the autobahn? This is one way to interpret comments by Tony Posawatz, the new CEO of Fisker Automotive, ...
Tags: Porsche, Audi, Fisker Automotive, consumer electronics
Environmentally friendly and socially acceptable production conditions will continue to be one of the greatest challenges of the textile industry–that was the bottom line of this year's meeting of the OEKO-TEX General Managers which ...
Tags: United States of America, OEKO-TEX
Codes were the topic of discussion when the Glass Association of North America's(GANA)Fire-Rated Glazing Council met for its Fall Conference session this morning.The conference is taking place all this week at the Hilton Chicago,and ...
Tags: Gana, Fire-Rated, Decoration