Technical Textiles

The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service post in Cairo forecasts market year 2021/22 cotton area harvested to increase by seven percent to 70,000 hectares, from 65,000 hectares in season 2020/21. © Bremer Baumwollbörse

12/05/2021 – Losses from 2020/21 season made up

Losses from 2020/21 season made up

Egypt: Increasing cotton production 2021/22

Post attributes the increase to higher area harvested and containment of the white fly infestation that caused losses in 2020/21. By Sibylle Michel

12/05/2021 – Global Recycled Standard

Global Recycled Standard

Freudenberg Performance Materials Apparel is worldwide certified

Freudenberg Performance Materials Apparel (Freudenberg) has completed the worldwide certification process to the Global Recycled Standard (GRS). By Editorial staff

A milestone: the Wear2Wear consortium has succeeded in producing an rEvolution hybrid jacket made from used textiles and recycled PET bottles. At the end of its lifetime, it can be completely recycled into high-quality functional textiles. © Carl Weiske

11/05/2021 – Circular economy

Circular economy

Carl Weiske: The rEvolution hybrid jacket

Carl Weiske takes on the task of building a recycling network to recycle used textiles from a wide range of industries into high-quality yarns. By Editorial staff

11/05/2021 – Advert

Advert

Technical Textiles, Circular-Knitted, Please!

Circular-knitted fabric is versatile, both in classical and in technical textile uses. Circular-knitted technical textiles are used, for example, as a ... By Editorial staff

Purity material and recyclable: Two polyester yarns were processed into a dense fabric on a high-performance HKS 3-M tricot machine in gauge E 32. © Karl Mayer Gruppe

11/05/2021 – Elastic yet still recyclable

Elastic yet still recyclable

Karl Mayer: Polyester-based tricot fabric with elasticity

Many clothing textiles consist of fibre or yarn mixtures that cannot be separated for the treatment process or only be separated with great difficulty. By Editorial staff

Weko-ProTec: high efficient antimicrobial finishing of nonwoven or technical textiles © Weko

10/05/2021 – Corona

Corona

Weko: Innovative spray-finishing against infections

With the non-contact Weko application system, there is considerable potential for savings with regard to the use of resources. By Editorial staff

10/05/2021 – Spacer fabrics

Spacer fabrics

Eurolaser: Perfect shape with laser cutting

More and more processors of modern textiles rely on automated, customer-specific systems from Eurolaser. By Editorial staff