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German researchers have developed an easy and inexpensive method of fixing high amounts of polyelectrolytes onto polyester nonwovens that could prove useful in removing chromate from groundwater and soil.
Insight18 Nov 2013Tighter legislation is just one of the reasons the demand for high-performance nonwoven filter media continues to rise. Adrian Wilson reports from Filtech 2013
The global consumption of textiles is scheduled to considerably increase in the next few decades and not just as a result of the world’s growing population.
Insight30 Sept 2013Biomedical textiles with customised structures are increasingly replacing traditional rigid materials such as metals in medical devices, providing life saving grafts, heart valves, spinal stabilisation and artificial ligaments, to name but four applications that would have been inconceivable just a few years ago.
