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ATA’s Emerging Technologies Conference focuses on the future
January 1st, 2024
Representatives from the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) showed a newly developed material for smart products in its booth on the show floor at Advanced Textiles Expo in Orlando. AFFOA describes the material as a “flexible, roll-to-roll, inkjet manufacturable, RF metamaterial for wearables.” Image: Janet Preus The Emerging Technologies Conference, part of Advanced Textiles […]
Sustainability in denim
January 1st, 2024
Madewell collaborates with bluesign® to produce denim more sustainably—using bluesign Approved ISKO™ fabrics. The bluesign certification signifies adherence to the organization’s strict worker safety and environmental requirements as well as the elimination of hazardous chemicals. Image: Madewell Denim has long been an icon in fashion design. In the mid-1800s, Levi Strauss began using this textile […]
Transparency tech: solutions for materials tracking
January 1st, 2024
Preparing a cotton sample. “Any volume of fiber can be tagged,” says MeiLin Wan of Applied DNA Sciences. “For example, if 20 million pounds of cotton need to be tagged at a particular gin or spinner, we can provide the automated CertainT® tagging system to achieve this. We have tagged hundreds of millions of pounds […]
FlexFacades innovation turns parking garage into art
January 1st, 2024
Parking garages are not typically the prettiest buildings on the block. But with a little tensile fabric and some architectural panache, a structure that may typically lean toward eyesore can feel more like an urban sculpture. Take, for example, the parking garage of a Mountain View, Calif., tech company. Structurflex LLC, of Merriam, Kan., working […]