‘Cloud boxes’ soften offices

July 1, 2013  |  Industry News

Clutter distracts, multiple voices jangle and machines beep, ring or stutter. Welcome to the modern office, where tuning out human or mechanical drones and tones can make edgy employees into cutting-edge creative dynamos. PROOFFLab, the experimental lab for PROOFF (which stands for PROgressive OFFic…
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Creating the future of textiles: Flexible, flat, transparent

July 1, 2013  |  Industry News

Fluorescent light traveling through a polymer sheet may lead to user interface devices that respond to gestures alone. From a white paper by Alexander Koppelhuber and Oliver Bimber published as “New Imaging Device that is Flexible, Flat and Transparent” by The Optical Society (OSA). Digital came…
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AATCC, USA and TecniTex Nonwovens present conference in October

June 26, 2013  |  Industry News

AATCC, USA will partner with Bangalore, India-based TecniTex Nonwovens Pvt. Ltd. in conducting an international conference on “Advances in Fibers, Finishes, Technical Textiles and Nonwovens, Oct. 1-2, 2013 in Mumbai, India. This international conference will focus on emerging themes such as: Techn…
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NRG launches Solar Canopy

June 25, 2013  |  Industry News

New product will provide energy without additional solar panels or connecting to the electricity grid. At Fortune’s Brainstorm Green conference, NRG Energy CEO David Crane unveiled a new product that provides shade and solar energy. The Solar Canopy will launch by the end of the year, accordin…
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Slingmax products made with Dyneema® cradle Trade Center spire

June 24, 2013  |  Industry News

Slingmax® Twin-Path® high-performance slings helped to complete the One World Trade Center Freedom Tower by cradling the spire while it was carefully lifted to its place at the peak of the building. The addition of the 408-foot silver spire brought Freedom Tower to its full height, a symbolic 1,77…
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IDTechEx forecasts a $100 million graphene market in 2018

June 24, 2013  |  Industry News

Graphene promises to offer excellent material properties in almost all applications. Its extraordinary performance has led many to call it a wonder material; however, the reality is different, according to a new report published by IDTechEx (Graphene: Analysis of Technology, Markets and Players 2013…
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Atmospheric plasma increases breathability of spunbond nonwoven fabrics

June 24, 2013  |  Industry News

A study conducted by Texas Tech University and Enercon Industries Corp. has determined that when spunbond polypropylene nonwoven fabrics are pretreated with atmospheric plasma it increases the breathability of the fabric. Atmospheric plasma treatment increases the number of pores and enlarges the po…
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Nonwoven fabric Galaxy central to solar water desalinization

June 1, 2013  |  Industry News

The World Health Organization estimates that more than one billion people lack access to safe drinking water, and energy-intensive purification technologies (such as reverse osmosis membranes) use an estimated $10.96 in oil to produce 264 gallons of clean water. A simple, solar-powered panel made wi…
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Creating the future of textiles: Bearable lightness

June 1, 2013  |  Industry News

Building energy research in Germany finds inspiration from polar bears. Fabric materials offer quite a few advantages in the construction of roofs, such as efficiency of material use, ease of transport and good light transmissivity, but a big disadvantage is their poor thermal insulation performance…
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Dutch researchers design highways that heal themselves

May 1, 2013  |  Industry News

Researchers at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands are paving the way to longer-lived roads with a special type of asphalt containing long steel fibers. Zoab, a highly porous asphalt concrete used commonly in The Netherlands, is used because water can drain through openi…
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