Technical Textiles

Cotton’s been keeping people dressed for over 8,000 years. © Uster Technologies

07/10/2022 – World Cotton Day

World Cotton Day

Cotton – a unique natural fiber

World Cotton Day – on October 7 every year – is a celebration of one of the world’s most important natural fiber. Let’s take a closer look at cotton with ... By Sibylle Michel

03/10/2021 – Advertisement

Five Good Reasons to Expand into DTG Printing

No matter if your business is screen printing, dye sublimation, or even commercial print, you’ve surely been impacted by commerce migrating to the internet, ... von Kornit

Foreign buyers came back to the fair, and this represented a very important element, exceeding numbers registered in 2019. © Filo

03/10/2022 – Trade fairs

Trade fairs

The 58th edition of Filo closed with positive results

The 58th edition of Filo closed registering great results. Among the stands, the work has been intense during the two days, resulting from a constant flow ... By Sibylle Michel

The Indigo Color technology: Significant savings achieved in water, electricity and chemical usage during fiber production process enhances sustainability of finished products. © Lenzing

30/09/2022 – Award

Award

Lenzing won 2022 ITMF Award for Sustainability and Innovation

Tencel Modal fiber with Indigo Color technology by Lenzing was presented with the award for Sustainability and Innovation at the ITMF Annual Conference ... By Editorial staff

The latest machine generation RF5 sets benchmarks in terms of quality, performance, availability, efficiency, and machine intelligence. © Reifenhäuser

29/09/2022 – Nonwovens

Nonwovens

PFNonwovens invests in Reicofil RF5 technology in South Africa

Reifenhäuser Reicofil announces the sale of an RF5 SMMS 3200 nonwovens line to PFNonwovens for their production facility in South Africa. By Sibylle Michel

16/09/2022 – Cotton

Cotton

2021/22 U.S. exports fall on lower supplies

2021/22 U.S. exports are estimated to have fallen more than 370,000 tonnes from the previous year to 3.2 million tonnes owing to less exportable supplies. By Sibylle Michel

In the project 3DNaturDruck, construction elements will be manufactured additively from natural fibers, such as here a free-form tile made of wood short fiber filament. © LZH

14/09/2022 – Sustainability in 3D printing

Sustainability in 3D printing

LZH research components made of natural fibers

Together with partners, the LZH is researching how to produce individual building elements from natural fibers using additive manufacturing. By Sibylle Michel