The British product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants has created a new low-cost, durable and very attractive looking smart fabricthat can track body movement. Interwoven with fibre optic thread that acts as active ...
Tags: Tracking Fabric, Apparel
Key priorities for further development of the Indian textile industry were identified at a three-day Uster ‘Quality University’ event held in Goa recently. Delegates at the summit explored the challenges and opportunities ...
Tags: textile industry, Textile
Researchers from Canada’s Université Laval’s faculty of science and engineering and center for optics, photonics, and lasers have developed smart textiles that can monitor and transmit the wearers’ biomedical ...
Sintex Industries is expecting the phase-I of its textile plant near Pipavav port in Gujarat to become operational by March next year. This was disclosed by Amit Patel, managing director of Sintex. Patel was speaking to mediapersons ...
New categories in the organic sector in Australia have driven record growth in the $1.72 billion industry, according to a biennial industry report from organic certifying group Australian Organic. The Australian Organic Market Report is a ...
Tags: Organic Foods, Food
The year is drawing to a close but the number of exhibitors signing up for AUSPACK 2015 is still growing. According to Luke Kasprzak, portfolio director – industrial division, exhibition and trade fairs, “AUSPACK 2015 is ...
Tags: exhibition, trade fairs, Packaging
India is set for some spectacular growth in polyester production over the next 6 years, going up from just over 5 million tonnes to well over 10 million tonnes by 2020, according to Philips Gibbs, the group MD for PCI Xylenes and ...
Tags: raw material, polyester production, Textilec
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) has requested the Government to reduce the excise duty on all man-made fibres and filaments, as also their raw materials from the current 12 per cent to 6 per cent. In a pre-Budget ...
Tags: man-made fibres, Apparel, Textile
The producer of INOTEK, a biomimetic fibre, and technical director at MMT Textiles, a research and development company, Veronika Kapsali, has been named the Innovator of the Year at the ITMA Future Materials Awards ceremony held on 26 ...
Tags: Biomimetic Fibre, Bags Innovator, Textile
Mexico is set to host the third edition of ExpoProducción, at the World Trade Center in Mexico City, from February 4th to 6th, 2015. ExpoProducción is expected to be the event of the year for everyone involved in apparel, ...
Tags: home textiles, apparel, Textile
Israeli producer of specialised nylon 6.6 yarn, Nilit says fabric made from its Innergy yarn has been found to have greater radiation absorption then fabric made from conventional yarns. According to Nilit, the study proved that when ...
Tags: Yarn Fabric, Textile
The campaign will run across Sky One, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. Turbospoke, the bicycle exhaust system, has launched its Christmas TV campaign in support of Smyths Toys and Halfords. The campaign, set to run across a two week ...
Tags: Christmas, TV Campaign, Toys
Vardhman Group, one of the leading textile companies in India, is set to invest Rs 560 crore for setting up weaving and fabric units in Himachal Pradesh’s Baddi town, Business Standard reported. The managing director of Vardhman ...
Tags: fabric units, weaving, Textile
High class print reproductions vs sustainability. It's no longer an 'either or' choice. SCA has developed Solo Print, a one-side coated paper into its sustainable packaging product family. This paper gives printability in the same class as ...
Tags: High class print, Packaging
Austria based, Lenzing said looking at the challenging conditions, it will not undertake any new expansion projects at any of its viscose staple fibre (VSF) production sites across the world. Although Lenzing continues to anticipate good ...
Tags: viscose staple fibre, Textile