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Personal hygiene product makers commit to programme to strengthen consumer confidence
European manufacturers of diapers, adult incontinence, and feminine hygiene products are committing to a new programme to give consumers further assurances about the safety of their products.
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INDA’s World of Wipes® and RISE® 2020 conferences transition to all virtual format matching corporate travel policies
INDA is transitioning two conference events scheduled for August and September to an all-virtual format for 2020 in deference to corporate travel policies and individual concerns about travel. Registration is open for the virtual World of Wipes® International Conference, aligned with the WIPES Academy training course, and the RISE® (Research, Innovation & Science for Engineered Fabrics) Conference.
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Hypertex system installed in Eberbach – Test your own yarn materials
The production of multilayered reinforced felts can be tested in the DILO technological centre in Eberbach with the scrim fabric machine “Turbotex” by ONTEC in combination with a DILO Hyperpunch needleloom. The spacing of the weft yarns is infinitely variable allowing the creation of meshs with apertures of up to 20 x 20 mm.
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INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, has announced that registration is now open for the 10th edition of Research, Innovation & Science for Engineered Fabrics (RISE®) Conference on the RISE® website. RISE® will be held at Talley Student Union, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Sept. 29-30, and co-organized with The Nonwovens Institute (NWI) and North Carolina State University.
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EU production of face masks, essential for tackling the coronavirus crisis, is set to increase 20-fold by November this year compared to pre-crisis times. This means that EU-based producers will be able to make the equivalent of 1.5 billion three-layer masks a month, according to figures released today by EDANA, the leading global association serving the nonwovens and related industries.
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INDA reschedules FiltXPO™ to co-locate with IDEA® 2022
INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, announces a new FiltXPO™ venue and date for its second edition. FiltXPO™ is North America’s only exhibition and technical conference dedicated to filtration and separation and will now co-locate with IDEA®, the triennial global nonwovens and engineered materials exposition, at the Miami Beach Convention Center, in Florida. IDEA®, March 28-31, 2022, and FiltXPO™, March 29-31, 2022, will be held as two distinct events in the same building, at the same time.
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Cradle to cradle products innovation institute awards material health certificate to Freudenberg
Freudenberg Performance Materials (Freudenberg) has been recognized with its first Silver level Material Health Certificate from the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute for its comfortemp® air HO 80x product series. The comfortemp® air HO 80x fiberball paddings are made from polyamide 6 and are 100% recyclable.
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Weight and thickness have a great influence on the functionality of nonwoven goods. Especially in the current situation in the wake of the worldwide corona pandemic, it is essential to be able to rely 100 percent on the quality of medical products such as masks or protective gowns. Thanks to decades of experience and a wide range of measurement and control technology, the German company Mahlo GmbH + Co KG can support manufacturers in monitoring and controlling important parameters during the production process. Various sensors are avail- able depending on the application.
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Germany's Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier today handed over the first notice of funding to Innovatec GmbH in Troisdorf as part of the recently launched "Nonwoven Production" funding program. The North Rhine-Westphalian company intends to produce an additional 1 500 tons of nonwoven per year in the future with the two newly installed subsidized meltblown lines of which one is from Oerlikon Nonwoven. The additional volume will enable the production of more than 1.5 billion protective masks.
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Suominen introduces novel material FIBRELLA® Shield for face mask applications
Suominen has developed a nonwoven material for the manufacturing of face mask applications. The new nonwoven has passed European Standard EN 14683:2019 Type II requirements in terms of filtration efficiency and pressure drop.
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INDA supplements WIPES Academy training course with new virtual option: Experience wipes training online
INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, announces a new virtual supplement to its seventh edition WIPES Academy training course – the first and only comprehensive wipes training program dedicated to wipes raw materials and packaging suppliers, brand and private label wipe converters, wipes retail buyers, product developers, and professionals within the wipes supply chain.
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The SmartX Accelerator Programme completes first funding call
SmartX Europe, short for the European Smart Textiles Accelerator, has closed its first call for funding. The call was met with a high level of interest and enthusiasm from the textile and technology industries and resulted in 35 eligible project proposals.
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Murata and Teijin Frontier jointly innovate fabric with antimicrobial performance
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Nagaokakyo City, Kyoto Prefecture, Chairman of the Board and President: Tsuneo Murata, hereafter: "Murata") and Teijin Frontier Co., Ltd. (Head Office: Kita-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture, President Chief Executive Officer: Shinji Nikko, hereafter: "Teijin Frontier") have jointly developed the world's first piezoelectric fabric "PIECLEX" that generates electrical energy and exhibits antimicrobial performance when a motion is applied.
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FET's expertise in meltblown technology and processing much in demand
Fibre Extrusion Technology (FET), the Leeds, UK-based specialist in process solutions and equipment for the manmade yarns and fibre extrusion industry,has received unprecedented enquiries about its nonwoven meltblowing systems since the onset of the Coronavirus crisis.
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New Medical and Protective Zone at Cinte Techtextil China in September
Recognising the important role the technical textiles and nonwovens sector has played in combating the pandemic in recent months and new opportunities in future for suppliers, Cinte Techtextil will debut a Medical and Protective Zone at the 2 – 4 September 2020 edition. To further support the industry, the exhibitor registration deadline has been extended to give companies more time to sign up for the fair.
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