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What’s the holdup?
October 8th, 2013
Try Googling “photovoltaic fabrics” sometime. The first page will yield articles from 2010. Solar collector technology (the kind you might see on the roof of a house) I’ve been told has not changed substantially since I bought a house with an active solar heating system in 1979. (1979!) I don’t live in that house anymore, […]
Dry-Tex® new resource at Concept III
October 8th, 2013
Concept III Textiles, Red Bank, N.J., has joined forces with Dry-Tex® Textile Co. Ltd., Shaoxing, China, a specialist in ultra-lightweight laminations. Dry-Tex and Concept III offer the market Featherweight Performance Laminations in a large selection of creative two-and three-layer performance textile “packages.” Besides their technical virtues, the key to the new collaborations is their suppleness […]
Mattress helps allergy sufferers
October 8th, 2013
In a two-year field test, scientists from the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, Germany have proven the effectiveness of a new type of dust mite protection mattress developed by the Institute. Twenty people suffering from a house dust allergy received a new “Wellmed” mattress from the Hohenstein Institute and German bedding retailer Gailing in the spring […]
Sigmatex opens Technical Excellence Centre
October 8th, 2013
Sigmatex announces the creation of the Sigmatex Technical Excellence Centre, which consists of a number of technicians and engineers, dedicated to providing customers with technical innovation and cutting edge solutions through a collaborative approach. The creation of SigmaTEC is also supported by significant investment in new weaving technology being driven by customer need. The expansion […]
Money to be made
October 8th, 2013
Photovoltaic solar fabric products offer major potential to impact energy use—and make businesses in the industry hugely successful. Coal and oil have superbly fueled and helped enable the extraordinary growth of modern civilization. Their supply is reaching its peak, though, and will soon start to decline—while our population continues to grow and its energy needs […]
A mosque, solar powered
October 8th, 2013
“A team of collaborating Italian architects, Paolo Venturella, Angelo Balducci, Luca Ponsi, and Paolo Gaeta, had an unusual approach for a mosque project. The solar panel-covered "Wall-Dome" concept was the group's entry to the highly debated architecture competition to design the Central Mosque of Prishtina, Kosovo. Modern in both its appearance and function, it is […]
Windows let in light, keep out heat
October 8th, 2013
Quite a lot of U.S. energy consumption goes out the window, literally. Now, nanotechnology could produce a coating for glass that is affordable and effective at saving energy. Windows are wonderful for flooding the indoors with light, but they are also a drain on energy. In the cold-weather months, they let out heat that should […]
Aerialite® X fabric for composites introduced
October 8th, 2013
A partnership between BGF Industries® and Innegra Technologies™, both located in Greensboro, N.C., has produced new, lightweight, high-performance fabrics for composites. Aerialite® X is made using a wide range of fiber combinations from 100 percent Innegra to Innegra hybrid designs. This latest advancement is comprised of Innegra fiber co-mingled as part of the fiber matrix […]
Responsive textiles vs. reactive façade systems
October 8th, 2013
Research illuminates the possibilities for creating textile second building skins that can be “controlled” by the environment and user preferences. Structures are designed and built to offer people protection and comfort. New research seeks to change views concerning how people may interact with buildings and buildings with their environment—not if, but how. This research demonstrates […]
October 2013
October 8th, 2013
“Knitted Light” A project at the Swedish School of Textiles uses three-dimensional patterns to create textile surfaces with complex properties that are capable of reflecting, filtering and transmitting light. Answer your glove Bluetooth phone gloves have been available in the marketplace for a while. Are they calling to you?