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Textile World
American textile workers are busy making things customers around the world want to buy, rewriting the popular narrative of the industry’s demise. Mount Vernon Mills Vice President and Secretary Ned Cochrane has seen it all in his 30-plus years at the Mauldin, South Carolina-based manufacturer. He said the industry’s resurgence is real and sustainable thanks to a confluence of factors and circumstances.
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Nonwovens Industry
Diamond Wipes International has launched new table cleaning wipes and hard surface sanitizing wipes specifically designed for restaurants. New Handyclean Table Cleaning Wipes and EPA-registered Handyclean Rinse-Free Sanitizing Wipes, which are safe for food contact surfaces, are now available in a compact, portable soft pouch. Each flexible package holds 35 wipes.
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Innovation in Textiles
Sonia Reynolds, a designer and researcher, now undertaking a Ph.D. at the Nottingham Trent University, has pioneered a new form of nonwoven material made from yarn. According to the designer, the so-called space cloth has a strong potential for use as a smart textile due to its unique structure with space to encase copper wiring, light emitting diodes (LEDs) and more.
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TAPPI NET
TAPPI NETInc 2017 is now accepting abstracts for its annual conference April 23-26, 2017 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Submit your abstract by visiting the conference website NETInc 2017 Call for Papers
Contact Ben Hopper for any questions bhopper@tappi.org
Nonwovens Industry
Procter & Gamble's Pampers brand has partnered with Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) nurses to design and introduce the new Pampers Preemie Swaddlers Size P-3 diaper. The new Size P-3 is three sizes smaller than Newborn diapers to fit the tiniest and most vulnerable premature babies born in the second trimester and weighing as little as 1 pound (500 grams). Pampers is the first major diaper brand to offer a diaper specifically designed for babies this small.
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Complete meltblown line,
ww: 2200mm, two beams
Investkonsult Sweden is a Swedish-based company operating worldwide as consultants and brokers to the nonwoven and absorbent hygiene producers.
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Innovation in Textiles
George Stylios, a Senior Research Professor at the Heriot-Watt University, together with a research student Meixuan Chen, have conducted a study examining the participants’ emotional reactions to a variety of patterns in order to determine whether they can be manipulated to change our state of mind. As part of the study, researchers designed and produced four smart knitted fabrics from a purpose-made electrochromic composite yarn – psychotextiles – that could toggle between two kinds of patterns on a graduating scale.
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Nonwovens Industry
Kiara Nirghin, a 16-year-old South African schoolgirl, won the grand prize at Google's Science Fair for developing low-cost, biodegradable superabsorbent polymers (SAP) made out of orange peels. Nirghin's submission, "Fighting drought with fruit," beat students from around the world for a $50,000 scholarship. Nirghin's innovation was in response to South Africa's 2015 drought - the country's lowest ever rainfall since 1904. Last year, the country only received an average of 403mm if rainfall, just 66 percent of the annual average rainfall, according to her submission.
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Innovation in Textiles
A number of brands in the U.S. textiles industry are taking a step further towards sustainable future and environmental protection, with companies like Velcro and Auburn Manufacturing implementing business-changing initiatives to broaden their environmental responsibilities, the National Council of Textile Organizations reports.
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