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Insight19 Feb 2014Only a few weeks ago Under Armour unveiled its Mach 39 Speedskating Skin, which designers claimed would lead to a ‘measurable’ increase in performance for US athletes.
Shima Seiki is exhibiting at the Coterie exhibition in New York next week. On display will be the latest collection of its Isola Bella knitwear brand, including the latest in seam-free WholeGarment knitwear that features superior fit, comfort and draping characteristics.
A novel enzymatic approach to develop a lignin-based adhesive aimed at replacing synthetic latex in wool floor coverings could mean that carpets can be recycled at the end of their life, according to researchers at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.
Technical19 Feb 2014A planar and linear molecular structure is an essential property in a colouring dye molecule for textile substrates, but dye molecules – which are made of aliphatic and aromatic long-chain hydrocarbons – also behave as surfactant molecules and reduce the surface tension of water when dissolved in water in course of dyeing. Those textile dyes that reduce the surface tension of water drastically have lesser exhaustion in dyeing. However dyes that reduce the surface tension of water, when dissolved, to a lesser extent show better exhaustion in dyeing of textile material.
News19 Feb 2014Members of the US Olympic Snowboarding Team competing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi are wearing jackets that are not only waterproof and breathable, but also comfortable and warm, which is, in part, due to research conducted by the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC).
Toray Industries is to invest $1bn in a new facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina in the USA. The Tokyo-based company, which is the largest producer of carbon fibre in the world, said the facility will be a major supplier of advanced materials to the aerospace industry and will create 500 new jobs.
Orders for Italian textile machinery rose by 5% during the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to the previous quarter, figures from the economics department of ACIMIT (the Association of Italian Textile Machinery Manufacturers) have revealed.
News18 Feb 2014The main pricing issue for local fabric manufacturers during the past month has been continued strength in yarn prices. Weavers and knitters have attempted to pass those higher costs onto their customers, with mixed success. Fabric business has been stronger in some sectors than others, owing in part to brisk sales of some products to the US, but also to certain major brands and retailers changing the focus of their sourcing from China to alternative lower cost manufacturing centres. In many instances, rupee price increases have only partially offset the impact of renewed weakness in the local currency, with quotations expressed in US dollars generally tending weaker.
