Browsing: Medical textiles

A company that specialises in manufacturing machines for finishing textile and film webs, BRÜCKNER Trockentechnik GmbH & Co. KG intends to introduce assistance systems for plant operators onto the market. The family-owned company, an active member of the VDMA, expects the tools to unlock energy savings and free up 30 percent of the reserve capacity in German-manufactured systems.

The picture that appears at the end of the top row on Page 76 of ITJ September 2015 issue is that of B B Bharti, Joint Textile Commissioner. It has been erroneously named as Sundara Moorthy of BDB India. The inadvertent error is regretted.

The Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) has organised a symposium on ‘Medical Textiles: Applications & Opportunities’ on July 14, 2015 at MCA Banquets, Mumbai Cricket Association, Mumbai.

A current research project sponsored by the Alliance for Industrial Research and running until the start of 2016 is working on developing innovative reusable operating theatre textiles which are more comfortable to wear and at the same time more durable because they can be cleaned in a gentler process.

Nonwoven fabrics are broadly defined as sheet or web structures bonded together by entangling fibre or filaments (and by perforating films) mechanically, thermally or chemically.