The continuous demand for technical textiles with increased performance combined with sustainability leads to an increased focus on a phenomenon such as “adhesion to textile substrates”, writes Theo Breugelmans

INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, based in North Carolina, USA, has announced the appointment of Joan Izzo as its new Director of Marketing. Izzo brings years of experience in marketing for international nonwovens

One gram of silver nano particles is all that is required to give antibacterial properties to hundreds of square metres of substrate material, asserts Anita A Desai.

In order to achieve the optimum effect of washing process on the denim woven fabric in different washing time, various washes were carried out for cotton and cotton-spandex denim fabric

The global Polylactic Acid (PLA) market is expected to reach $5.2 billion by 2020 growing at a CAGR of 19.5 per cent from 2013 to 2020 – with Asia Pacific being the fastest

Siyaram Silk Mills Limited has installed AIRnet, a modular compressed air piping system from Atlas Copco, at its plant at Tarapur, Maharashtra, India. AIRnet delivers quality air from the compressor to the point of use, and will offer annual energy savings for the plant of up to 56,000 kWh.

For 35 years, Tronrud Engineering, Norway has been on the forefront of technological innovations and in 2012, its subsidiary Digital Weaving Norway (DWN), went a step further in pursuing the companys quest for excellence by rolling out the Thread

For the most part of 2012 and 2013 the textile sector was besieged by twin impacts of slowing domestic consumption and slowdown in export demand.

Greensboro, NC-based Burlington, a division of International Textile Group Inc (ITG), is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. Today, Burlington – with eight manufacturing sites in the United States, Mexico and China