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It pays to have this jacket
September 18th, 2015
bPay chip makes payment possible with the swipe of a sleeve. Scottish clothing brand Lyle and Scott now have a contactless payment jacket to add to your wardrobe. Featuring bPay technology by Barclaycard, the sportswear-styled jacket with hood has an unobtrusive cuff tab where the contactless bpay chip can be inserted. The chip enables the […]
NanoWave® production in Germany underway
September 17th, 2015
Hollingsworth & Vose, a global manufacturer of advanced materials for filtration, battery separator, and industrial applications, has announced the successful startup of NanoWave® air filter media production in Hatzfeld, Germany. The new production capacity supports the European market demand for innovative, value-added, high-performance filter media. NanoWave air filter media offers a lower pressure drop and, […]
JRC Reflex to unveil new reflective yarn
September 16th, 2015
JRC Reflex, manufacturer of retro reflective materials, introduces its new reflective yarn CRY (Coated Reflective Yarn) at the Premiere Vision Accessories show in Paris Sept. 15-17. CRY is designed to find applications in circular knitting and flat-bed knitting, as well as woven fabrics and embroidery design. The new product is available in three options: standard […]
Wearable textiles get Department of Defense boost
September 15th, 2015
The smart/wearables textiles sector will get a boost with U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) funding. U. S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has announced the creation of the National Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Hybrid Electronics. According to the U. S. DoD, “FlexTech Alliance,” a consortium of 96 companies, 41 universities, 14 state and local organizations, […]
Safe Reflections opens new Taiwan HQ
September 14th, 2015
Safe Reflections—St. Paul, Minn.-based developer of enhanced visibility and reflective solutions for the occupational safety, consumer active wear apparel and military training markets—has opened a new headquarters for its Asia business unit in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The new facility is located in the Tucheng District near the Taiwan Textile Research Institute, putting Safe Reflections […]
Noble Biomaterials’ XT2 receives bluesign® certification
September 10th, 2015
Noble Biomaterials, manufacturer of antimicrobial and anti-odor technologies for performance fabrics, has received bluesign® certification for its XT2(TM) technology, meeting requirements for durability, adherence, efficacy and low human toxicity, among other quality and safety performance measures. XT2 employs a proprietary process that provides permanent anti-odor protection that does not wash off or wear out, and […]
Sympatex launches Seamless Climate Technology
September 9th, 2015
Sympatex Technologies, Unterföhring, Germany-based developer of high-tech functional apparel fabrics, will introduce a further development of its Sympatex Climate Technology at Milan’s winter Lineapelle, an international exhibition of leather, accessories, components, fabrics, synthetics and models slated for Sept. 9-11. Together with its longtime Italian distribution partner PIDIGI S.p.A., Sympatex will present high-performance technologies as well […]
Determining relevance in standards and testing
September 4th, 2015
Standard test methods are used to characterize goods and services so that communication between buyers and sellers is facilitated across the global marketplace. Manufacturers may be motivated to test their products according to published standards to communicate their quality or function, to enable specific advertising claims to be made, to mitigate risk against potential future […]
Creating sound with a screen-printed MIDI textile interface
September 4th, 2015
EJTech, an experimental art and tech lab based in Budapest, Hungary, has developed an experimental textile interface for sonic interactions. Esteban de la Torre and Judit Eszter Karpati are the design team behind it. The technology is screen printed directly onto a textile surface, then through an Arduino microcontroller communicates with the desired software, using […]
Starting with standards
September 4th, 2015
There’s something about the topic of regulations, standards and testing that makes very bright, articulate people pause in silence. It’s not that they don’t understand the topic; it’s that it is such a complicated—and large—topic for a single discussion. Impossible, maybe. But let’s start with this our feature, “Determining relevance in standards and testing,”by Dr. Haskell […]