Nonwoven substrates made using spunmelt and carding processes are cost effective to develop tissue scaffolds. A team of researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of North Carolina (UNC)/North Carolina State University (NCSU) have found that nonwoven substrates produced using the above traditional methods provided viable tissue scaffold medium compared to electrospun nanofibre webs.
Month: June 2016
The textile industry of Iran is ready for a new beginning and determined to achieve future progress in technology and global market penetration, following the recent ending of international sanctions which hampered its continued development. As long-term partners of Iranian textile companies, Switzerland’s textile machinery producers are eager to play a major role in their renewed growth, as was demonstrated at a highly successful two-day seminar held in Tehran.
Classifault Trichord Flex is the new model of Keisokki Evenness tester. It has the following sensors which can run, all the same time: capacitive, optical, contamination for detecting and clearing of contamination and CV% sensor for monitoring CV% and IPM of yarn. All the four sensors can be incorporated onto your winding machine.
Texas Tech University professor Seshadri Ramkumar has been selected as the recipient of the 2016 President’s Excellence in Commercialization Award. Ramkumar, a professor of technical textiles and countermeasures to chemical threats in Texas Tech’s Department of Environmental Toxicology and The Institute of Environmental and Human Health (TIEHH), is being recognised for his revolutionary contributions to nonwoven materials.
India’s Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC) has embarked on an exploratory visit to Iran to understand the market after removal of sanctions. A delegation under the stewardship of Ashok G Rajani, Chairman-AEPC and four executive committee members of the council visited Tehran recently.
The International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) 2016 will be held between November 17-19, 2016 at Jaipur. Hosted by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI), the three-day conference expects a mammoth gathering of more than 400 delegates including textile industry leaders, senior government officials and experts from across the world. The conference will offer a chance for textile manufacturers to interact with global leaders in the industry, experience new innovations in the industry and learn changing policies in global trade.
Malaysia’s textile division will grow by at least 30 per cent, thanks to a surge of investment when the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement comes into force, according to Rebecca Chiang, executive director, Malaysian Knitting Manufacturers Association (MKMA). The trade deal’s ‘yarn forward’ rule makes it mandatory to use TPP member-country produced yarn for TPP-made textiles in order to be covered by the agreement’s market access benefits