Movers & Shakers – February 2021: Sustainable textile fiber producer Spinnova and wood pulp producer Suzano to open commercial-scale factory in 2022
In the dynamic and global textile fiber industry with its various manufacturing processes and end-uses, news and information is breaking on a daily basis. International Fiber Journal is tracking stories relevant to our industry from manmade to natural to bio-based fibers, innovations in nonwoven, woven, braided and technical textiles, technologies for additives, bonding, coatings and polymers, …
Recycling technology enables homogeneous & viscosity-stable rPET melt
Across the globe, consumers are demanding sustainable products and the careful utilization of resources – increasingly so in the textile sector. As a result, textile producers are switching from exclusively virgin polyester to recycled polyester, mostly made of bottle waste. So far, post-production fiber waste itself has not been recycled into new high-class fibers, but …
Bally Ribbon Mills brings smart textiles to commercialization
Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM), a leader in the design, development, and manufacture of highly specialized engineered woven fabrics, announces it is bringing to commercialization a variety of smart textile products – those that incorporate electronics or other actuation mechanisms into traditional fiber technology. Working with developers or fabricators making products for OEMs, BRM is using …
The first in-fiber sustainable viscose infrared solution
Hologenix, inventors of Celliant infrared textile technology, has partnered with Kelheim Fibres to introduce a sustainable fiber alternative for performance fabrics. Celliant is a proprietary blend of natural minerals that gives any textile-based product the ability to capture and convert body heat into full-spectrum infrared (IR) energy, which has been clinically validated to increase local …
KARL MAYER announces first warp-knitted textiles with seersucker effect
KARL MAYER now offers capability to produce seersucker-effect fabrics on warp knitting machines. The advance was enabled using a type HKS 4-M EL in E 28 high-performance tricot machine and a polyamide winding yarn with an elastance core. The gauge of the textured PU/PA yarn is dtex 110 f 24, with the material tensioned in …