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Monster Silk knitted gloves produced
July 9th, 2014
Lansing, Mich.-based Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, developer of advanced spider silk-based fibers, has announced that Warwick Mills, developer of advanced technical textiles and protective materials, has created the world's first textile utilizing Kraig's genetically engineered spider silk, Monster Silk. The first Monster Silk textile products are knitted gloves; many products are envisioned through the companies’ joint […]
INDA acquires INSIGHT and reschedules events
July 9th, 2014
The Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) has announced a new date and location for its Research, Innovation & Science for Engineered Fabrics Conference (RISE® Conference). It will now be held Feb. 9, 2015, in Miami, Fla. It was to be held September 8-11, 2014, in Atlanta but is rescheduled as a result of […]
Aquafil wins NeoCon 2014 best fiber award
July 9th, 2014
Aquafil USA has won the best fiber award at NeoCon 2014, a design exposition and conference for commercial interiors. The award is Aquafil’s first at the conference, and the first time the company has taken part in the event. Aquafil won with its ECONYL fiber, which is made from reused and improved waste polymers, such […]
Welcome Center springs to life with a vertical garden
July 9th, 2014
A colorful vertical garden greets residents and guests at the Bay Meadows Welcome Center—and offers a garden view from a new angle. The wall was constructed using geotextile materials, and the plants are grown in felt made from recycled water bottles (PET). The felt is saturated by an irrigation system embedded within the wall to distribute […]
Sunseeker Duo realizes Solar Flight dream
July 9th, 2014
Aircraft developer Solar Flight Inc. has achieved a milestone with the successful flight of the Sunseeker Duo, the first two-passenger solar-powered airplane. Aboard were Irena and Eric Raymond—the company-founding husband and wife team responsible for the new airplane—who took off from the Solar Flight facility near Milan, Italy. The company says the solar cells used […]
STIHL picks Hyflex® gloves for workers
July 9th, 2014
To protect employees from workplace cut hazards, STIHL Inc., producer of chain saws and other power tools, has selected the first safety glove to meet the requirements of EN 388 cut level 3 in 18-gauge thickness. This innovation is possible with a new advanced fiber technology that delivers the highest cut resistance for industrial safety […]
Design student alters clothing with an iPad app
July 9th, 2014
BA (Hons) Fashion Design student Oli Royce won the GFW (Graduate Fashion Week) Innovation Award at the London, U.K., event for a menswear collection that featured engineered prints with text and visual details only visible through an iPad app. Royce, 22, studied Fashion Design at Nottingham Trent University, U.K., and used the show to debut […]
Testing of NASA’s next prototype spacesuit begins in November
July 9th, 2014
Work on human space exploration may appear to have settled into the background, but it has not gone away. In fact, NASA recently completed a spacesuit design challenge as part of the development of the next generation of spacesuits. After the public cast 233,431 total votes, the "Technology" option won NASA's Z-2 Spacesuit design challenge […]
Norway moves on PFOA sales ban
July 9th, 2014
Norway has become the first European country to introduce legislation that bans the sale of products and textiles containing PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). One of its uses is to make textiles more weather-resistant, but concerns about the chemical’s toxicity have been raised in the textile industry and elsewhere. The report in Ecotextile News says there are […]
World Cup t-shirts tested for toxicity and quality
June 23rd, 2014
Global testing and certification organization TÜV Rheinland purchased 90 fan t-shirts for teams participating in the World Cup and tested them against the relevant European limits for toxic substances in textiles and for quality. The tests established that more than 30 percent of the fan t-shirts exceeded the limit values for the toxic substances. Purchased […]