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Trends in US textile and clothing imports, 2024 - Innovation in …
Mar 26, 2024 · Report summary. This 2024 update contains analysis and insight into the USA’s top ten foreign suppliers of textiles and clothing in 2023, along with more specific information on US imports of cotton dresses, cotton knitted shirts, cotton non-knitted (woven) shirts, cotton skirts, cotton trousers, cotton underwear, man-made fibre bras, man-made fibre dresses, man-made fibre knitted shirts ...
Magnera – a new nonwovens leader - Innovation in Textiles
Jul 25, 2024 · Magnera is the new name of the company resulting from the merger of Berry Global’s’s Health, Hygiene and Specialties business (HH&S) with Glatfelter Corporation, which is expected to be completed before the end of 2024. Magnera will consist of a business with anticipated annual revenues of around $3.6 billion and approximately 8,650 ...
Ecowipes benefits from carded pulp boom - Innovation in Textiles
A multi-drum dryer and a powerful winder complete the production line which allows for production speeds up to 300 m/min. Ecowipes’ recipe for success is a high pulp content in the wipe material, bringing down production costs significantly. “Trützschler and Ecowipes have walked a long way together,” says Ecowipes CEO Gabriel Kermiche.
Tex Tech Industries acquires SGL Carbon business - Innovation in …
Feb 20, 2023 · Tex Tech Industries, a portfolio company of Arlington Capital Partners, has acquired the operating assets of SGL Carbon’s plant in Gardena, California, which was formerly Hitco Carbon Composites. The business is a manufacturer of complex, industry leading high-temperature composite materials and components with high carbon and silica purities.
A measure of comfort - Innovation in Textiles
Apr 27, 2022 · Air permeability is a suitable test for comfort because the breathability of a material is very important. That includes the flow of air through the garment and its sensorial impact on the skin. Items such as raincoats, hiking trousers and tents, for example, require low air and water permeability to provide resistance to wind and moisture ...
Introducing user-controlled colour-changing fabric - Innovation in …
Jul 9, 2018 · Instead, CREOL’s ChroMorphous technology enables an innovative capability: user-controlled, dynamic colour and pattern change in large woven fabrics and cut-and-sewn textile products, the university explains. Each thread woven into the fabric incorporates within it a thin metal micro-wire. An electric current flows through the micro-wires ...
Nanomaterial-based fabric coating for future textiles
Apr 24, 2020 · The researchers have developed a nanomaterial-based coating for fabric that could potentially replace conventional clothing material and pioneer the future of textile development across the world. Based in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Hub for Computational Particle Technology, and Monash University’s Department of Chemical ...
Loomia’s smart textile system a World Changing Idea
Apr 27, 2020 · Smart textiles designer Loomia has been awarded an honourable mention in two general categories today by Fast Company and its World Changing Ideas for 2020. Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas awards and honours products, concepts, companies, policies, and designs that are pursuing innovation for the good of society and the planet. The ...
Birla plans 100000 tons of circular fibre by 2024
Mumbai-headquartered Birla Cellulose, already one of the world’s largest man-made cellulosic fibre producers, has announced a commercial collaboration with Renewcell, the Swedish textile-to-textile recycling innovator. The intention is to supply up to an annual 30,000 tons of Renewcell’s Circulose in Birla’s Liva Reviva fibres to global ...