Weaving
Itemalab evolves: the excellence of textile machinery innovation now available to all the industrial sectors
Itema, the leading provider of advanced weaving solutions, announced the new structure of Itemalab®, the innovation incubator opened in 2014 at Kilometro Rosso innovation district in Bergamo. Born with the goal to design the platform for the “loom of the future” and breakthrough solutions for the textile industry, Itemalab® becomes now an independent company and widens its field of action, providing customers and partners with system engineering and business process re-engineering skills.
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ITMA Asia + CITME 2020
Experience Groz-Beckert in person and virtually at ITMA Asia
At the 7th ITMA Asia + CITME, Groz-Beckert presents the new products from all six product areas. The products are presented both physically as exhibits and in extended form via augmented reality. Groz-Beckert welcomes guests on-site at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Hall 4, Booth C31. In addition to the face-to-face event, the company is inviting industry visitors to its virtual booth.
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Sustainability
Ascend Performance Materials today published its latest sustainability report highlighting the company’s performance and initiatives across three pillars: Empowering People, Innovating Solutions and Operating Without Compromise.
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Only introduced to the market in 2019 and already worth exhibiting: The well-known "TextielMuseum" in Tilburg, the Netherlands, has acquired a P2 rapier weaving machine from Lindauer DORNIER for its textile laboratory. According to its director “a long-cherished dream" came true with the purchase of the weaving machine from the Lindau-based machine and plant manufacturer.
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Global Textile Machinery Market Trajectory & Analytics report 2021: Hit by reduced spending, textile industry nose-dives
The "Textile Machinery - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
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Global Regenerated Fibers Industry (2020 to 2027) - Market Trajectory & Analytics
The "Regenerated Fibers - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
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Unprecedented demand for cotton made in Africa’s cotton
In 2020, Cotton made in Africa (CmiA) was able to improve on the previous year’s gains, resulting in a record turnover of 276 million textiles bearing the red CmiA label. This benefits over one million small-scale farmers in Africa who are growing cotton in accordance with CmiA’s sustainability criteria.
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Textile in the tension between technology, environment, and fashion
For the first time, the Textile Finishing Day of the "Association of German Textile Finishing Professionals" will take place completely as a livestream, in which you can participate via PC, notebook, tablet, smartphone or smart TV. Participation is free of charge.
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OSOMTEX® awarded honorable mention in Best World Changing Idea category of Fast Company’s 2021 World Changing Ideas Awards
The winners of Fast Company’s 2021 World-Changing Ideas Awards were announced today, honoring the businesses, policies, projects, and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to pursuing innovation when it comes to solving health and climate crises, social injustice, or economic inequality.
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Optimization of the flor quality and increase of energy efficiency
The study of optimizing pneumatic fiber flow from the individual processes within opening & blending to reduce operating costs (energy) and improve the nonwovens quality of the plant. This is the approach of Maximilian Speiser‘s Master‘s Thesis, supervised by Prof. Dr. Volker Jehle (Reutlingen University), in cooperation with AUTEFA Solutions Germany GmbH, which was awarded the VDMA Prize of the Walter Reiners Foundation at the end of 2020.
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Families come in many forms. The United Nations created International Day of Families nearly 30 years ago to promote awareness of issues affecting families. On May 15 and every day, we celebrate all families by helping them make safer, more sustainable choices.
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Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, today announced an exclusive partnership with seven Premium Manufacturing Partners (PMPs) to help expand its Dyneema® fabric offerings.
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While trade fairs, events and catwalk shows are all on hold, digital formats are continuing to keep us up to date. The ongoing health risks and the latest decisions made by the German government regarding COVID-19 unfortunately make it impossible to hold the physical debut of Frankfurt Fashion Week from 5 to 9 July 2021. And so it’s now official: there will be no face-to-face event for the Neonyt community this summer. In the meantime, the new FFW Studio will become the digital meeting place for all fashion professionals.
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Esquel is proud to announce that Esquel Vietnam won accolades at the Vietnam National Quality Awards 2020. These awards recognize enterprises that promote the standing of Vietnamese products in both domestic and foreign markets through outstanding performance, with noteworthy quality and competitiveness of their products and services.
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Dominic Köfner (46) will take over as head of Corporate Communications & Public Affairs at Lenzing AG at the beginning of May. As Vice President, he will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Stefan Doboczky.
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An international jury of design and carpet industry experts has selected the most compelling submissions to the Carpet Design Awards 2021.
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adidas introduced its new strategy ‘Own the Game’ at a virtual Investor & Media Day. Main strategic focus of ‘Own the Game’ is to strengthen the credibility of the adidas brand, to create a unique consumer experience and to continue to expand the company's activities in the area of sustainability.
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JEC Innovation Awards celebrate the fruitful cooperation between players of the composite community. Started in 1996, the JEC Innovation Awards have, over the past 24 years, brought in 1,900 companies worldwide. 198 companies and 475 partners have been rewarded for the excellence of their composite innovations. The JEC Innovation Awards reward composites champions, based on criteria such as partner involvement in the value chain, technicality, or commercial applications of innovations.
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Ahlstrom-Munksjö expands its glass fiber tissue business through a major investment in North America
Ahlstrom-Munksjö will invest EUR 58 million in a new glass fiber tissue production line in the U.S. to support the flooring industry in North America. The investment will further strengthen the company’s position as a leading global supplier of high performance materials. The new line will produce a full range of glass fiber tissue nonwovens with a main focus on Luxury Vinyl Tiles and Vinyl sheet materials. Customer deliveries from the new line are expected to start in mid-2023.
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Sateri to acquire Funing Aoyang’s viscose fibre business
Sateri has entered into agreement with Funing Aoyang Technology Co., Ltd. (Funing Aoyang) to acquire its viscose fibre business today. The acquisition is part of Sateri’s growth strategy which will bring Sateri’s total number of viscose mills in China to six and total annual production capacity to more than 1.8 million tonnes.
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Winners announcement: 2021 AATCC Concept 2 Consumer® Student Design Competition
AATCC is happy to announce the winners of the 2021 AATCC Concept 2 Consumers® Student Design Competition!
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Indorama Ventures advances sustainability strategy by placing Thailand’s first green deposit with HSBC
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), a global chemical company, continued its commitment to sustainability by being the first Thailand-based company to invest in HSBC’s recently introduced Green Deposit to support Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) projects that benefit the environment.
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Porto Social Summit: all partners commit to 2030 social targets
Partners have signed up to the three 2030 headline targets set in the Commission's European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan in a joint Porto Social Commitment.
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AMSilk raises EUR 29 M to accelerate commercialization of its high-performance bio-based silk polymers
AMSilk GmbH (“AMSilk”), the world’s first industrial supplier of synthetic silk biopolymers, today announces the successful closing of a EUR 29 million Series C fundraise. The financing was led by Novo Growth, the growth equity arm of Novo Holdings, with participation from new investors Cargill and E.R. Capital Holdings as well as existing investors MIG Verwaltungs AG and ATHOS KG.
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Nonwovens / Technical Textiles
Sustainable, flexible and adaptive: Freudenberg will be showcasing new, innovative materials in the sports and outdoor sector at the digital Performance Days
Freudenberg Performance Materials Apparel (Freudenberg) will be showcasing not one, but two new solutions in the sports and outdoor sector at the digital Performance Days from May 17 to 21, 2021 being staged online: Freudenberg is now offering customers the Freudenberg Active Range of sustainable, highly elastic and breathable interlinings and tapes for all types of sportswear, and is also expanding its product portfolio with the comfortemp® FLEXX innovative padding, the first adaptive thermal insulation featuring elastic reinforcement elements.
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Erhardt+Leimer shows new products at ITMA Asia
At last – having been rescheduled from 2020, the 7th edition of the combined ITMA ASIA and CITMA exhibition will take place from 12 – 16 June 2021. Some 1,650 exhibitors will be at the venue in Shanghai, among them Erhardt+Leimer with several products from their broad portfolio for automation and quality assurance in the textile industry.
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Huntsman Textile Effects presents range of high-performance solutions for performance apparel at Performance Days Digital Fair Week
Huntsman Textile Effects, global leader in innovative solutions and environmentally sustainable products, will highlight its extensive end-to-end suite of protection effects and high-performance solutions for performance apparel at the Performance Days Digital Fair Week this May. Huntsman will also deliver a presentation on sustainability, showcasing the top megatrends impacting the textile industry.
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Investment in the latest meltblown technology: NIRI expand facilities for client product development, sustainability and manufacturing innovation
Nonwoven Innovation & Research Institute (NIRI) has recently completed an upgrade to their existing meltblown system, installing new equipment and expanding their extensive facilities to further help clients across a whole host of applications. The state-of-the-art meltblown system will be of particular relevance for R&D; pilot projects; sampling and prototyping; proof of concept testing, as well as designing cost-effective products.
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A breakthrough for break drafts
Modern draw frame machines offer a fantastic range of settings that can be adjusted to meet each spinners’ unique needs. But adjusting the break draft is still difficult, unpredictable and very slow. The AUTO DRAFT function from Truetzschler, which is part of our successful autoleveller draw frame TD 10, uses an innovative measuring method to automatically optimize the break draft during production conditions. And it takes less than two minutes.
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Devan launches bio-based softener and quick-dry finish to support circularity programmes
Textile innovator Devan Chemicals recently added two more products to its range of bio-based textile finishes. One being a softener, the other one a quick-dry finish. Both are derived from vegetable oils and are in line with the company’s latest innovations on bio-based chemistry.
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Stäubli presents wide range of solutions that offer new and expanded benefits to textile mills at ITMA Asia 2021
At ITMA Asia 2020 Stäubli will present its wide range of machinery equipped with state-of-the-art, high-end technologies and software solutions that offer new and expanded benefits to textile mills. The trade fair will be taking place from June 12 to 16 at the National Exhibition and Convention Centre (NECC) in Shanghai. Visitors to the Stäubli booth at C21 in Hall 3 will learn how Stäubli solutions can boost weaving or sock-knitting performance and their overall mill efficiency.
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ICAC Secretariat releases 2021 reports on world cotton statistics, cotton trade and textile demand
Every year, the cotton and textile industries eagerly await the release of three major annual publications from the Secretariat of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC):
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Major innovations ready to go live at ITMA Asia
The Uster 2021 product launch season is well under way: the new Quantum 4.0 yarn clearer introduced in March, followed in April by the Q-Bar 2. Alongside these innovations came new Quality Expert software, with the latest Mill Dashboard feature. Now, these major developments are ready to go live for the first time at ITMA Asia + CITME 2021 in Shanghai.
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