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ANDRITZ acquires Dan-Web
June 15, 2023 | Advanced Textiles, Markets
International technology group ANDRITZ has signed an agreement with Dan-Web Machinery A/S based in Galten, Denmark, to take over 100% of its shares.
Smart fabric helps the body heal itself
June 1, 2023 | Advanced Textiles, Markets
The health and wellness market has been among the first to embrace advances in smart yarns and to take advantage of the versatility of engineered textiles. Supreme Corp., a producer of high-tech textiles and electrically conductive yarn and sewing thread, has created a revolutionary fabric called Th…
Awnings encourage natural light and offer shade protection
June 1, 2023 | Markets, Product Trends
Natural light can help reduce energy usage in our buildings. This is a lesson known for centuries but seemingly forgotten after the 1940s with postwar technological advances in air conditioning (coupled with the Modernist design movement that declared “ornament is a crime”). These stripped-down …
Smart textiles for health care and reducing accidents
May 1, 2023 | Advanced Textiles, Markets
Smart textiles for health and well-being are becoming both more diverse and interconnected. Three key market segments—home health care, health care facilities and work environments—are especially worth noting. Home health care has come to dominate the wearable medical device market globally, wit…
Tips for keeping warehouses safe, organized and profitable
May 1, 2023 | Business, Markets
Today’s warehouses are no longer just for storage. From being a showroom of products to providing a space for drying operations to housing all facets of inventory, today’s warehouses are multipurpose spaces that require well-defined organization and management to keep processes streamlined and e…
Exciting innovations in textile research at U.S. schools
May 1, 2023 | Industry in Focus, Markets
New textile products and processes are constantly being developed to meet the needs of the textile industry and other related industries, including aerospace, medicine, robotics, defense and more. Where do these new products and techniques originate?
Fabrics finishers need new processes, products
April 1, 2023 | Markets, Product Trends
These days in the fabric finishing world, many of the biggest tasks don’t even involve the latest and greatest advancements in fabric protection. There’s just as much effort, if not more, being made to improve the methods by which that finishing is accomplished.
Textile industry leaders discuss 2023 market challenges
April 1, 2023 | Advanced Textiles, Markets
The Advanced Textiles Association (ATA) board chair, Amy Bircher, and the ATA first vice chair, Roy Chism, responded to questions about the industry in 2022 and where it may be going in 2023.
Leadership and management: Both are necessary for success
April 1, 2023 | Business, Markets
Leadership and management are closely related; however, despite often being spoken of in the same breath, they are certainly not synonymous. If we use those terms interchangeably, we tend to behave as if these roles are interchangeable and equivalent. Doing so means we miss critical components of ex…
Sustainable medical textiles
March 1, 2023 | Advanced Textiles, Markets
IT’S A SOBERING statement: “The U.S. health
care system is responsible for an estimated 10% of national greenhouse gas emissions, which cause extreme weather events and contribute to worse health outcomes.” That’s the start of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee repo…