Toyota has unveiled its Smart Mobility City display at the Tokyo motor show, providing a glimpse into the brand’s future plans for connected mobility and safety. Designed to showcase the key areas Toyota believes are essential to ...
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AmeriPride Services Inc., a leading supplier of linen and uniform rental services in North America, today announced the acquisition of SoCal Uniform's textile rental business in San Gabriel, Calif. AmeriPride began servicing their new ...
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Germany-based Sympatex Technologies GmbH — a membrane, laminate and functional textile developer, producer and distributor — reports two partner companies have introduced products featuring Sympatex technology. Baltes ...
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CRAiLAR Technologies Inc., which produces and markets CRAiLAR Flax fiber The Friendliest Fiber On The Planet, announced today it has finalized the purchase of a European based fiber processing company with more than 40 years of experience ...
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Fitesa Simponsville Inc. — a Simpsonville, S.C.-based designer and manufacturer of nonwoven fabrics for hygiene, medical, and industrial specialty applications — is investing $50 million to expand its Simpsonville facility and ...
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Surprising, individualistic and forward-looking: The forthcoming Heimtextil exhibition (8 to 11 January 2014) is set to feature refreshingly inspiring and innovative textile developments, presented by young companies. This international ...
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The tenth annual Safety Products Student Design Challenge winners were announced today by the Safety and Technical Products Division of Industrial Fabrics Association International (IFAI). The annual contest is developed and supported by ...
Workwear is generally dominated by polyester and cotton fibers. Workwear options have been extended with the TENCEL fiber. TENCEL guarantees innovation and greater sustainability in this segment. As a result of the fiber's properties, such ...
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Turkey-based nonwovens producer Mogul Co. Ltd. has begun production on a new core/sheath bicomponent polyester (PET)/copolyester spunbond line. The new 365-centimeter-wide line brings Mogul's total PET capacity to 15,000 metric tons per ...
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Ventura, Calif.-based outdoor apparel retailer Patagonia Inc. has announced that beginning with the Fall 2014 season, its entire collection of down-insulated products will be made with 100-percent traceable down. Patagonia Traceable Down ...
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The Nissan GT-R Nismo has been officially unveiled in Tokyo along with confirmation that it has set the fastest volume production car lap record at the Nurburgring. Official specifications of the Nissan GT-R Nismo align closely with those ...
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Pointcarre has announced a partnership with Yunique Solutions, a Gerber Technology company, integrating Pointcarre's CAD and YuniquePLM. "The textile industry has never before seen a partnership with this much integration between a ...
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The four partners BRAIN, the Hohenstein Institute, Kelheim Fibres and rkona, announce the formation of a new research alliance for the biotechnical production and modification of specialty alginates. The aim of the alliance is to establish ...
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Boston-based Sappi Fine Paper North America, a subsidiary of South Africa-based wood pulp and paper producer Sappi Ltd., has announced the completion of the conversion of its kraft pulp mill in Cloquet, Minn., for production of specialized ...
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The Norcross, Ga.-based Technical Association for the Pulp, Paper, Packaging and Converting Industries (TAPPI) has issued a call for 300-word abstracts for presentations to be given at the 2014 TAPPI International Conference on ...
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