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Sustainability


Greening PPE

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Old Fibers for New

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Sustainable Bonding

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Smaller plastic particles look like food to many small creatures including turtles and fish; this is how plastic gets into the food chain. Photo courtesy of iStockphoto/Slavadubrovin

Plastic has been part of our lives for the past 70 years. For the sake of history, in 1953, high-density polyethylene (HDPE) brought expansion to low-density radical polyethylene (LDPE), used …

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Fiber developers are looking to nature to help guide their designs

The global nonwoven industry is at a crossroads, facing increasing pressure to address environmental concerns and develop sustainable alternatives to traditional materials. As the world shifts toward a more sustainable …

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Sustainability takes center stage in nonwovens.

Emerging Trends. Empowering Innovation. Enhancing Knowledge. Sustainability remains one of the most discussed topics, and biggest challenges, within the nonwovens industry. The topic is a significant component of every conference, …

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Tomra was the main technology provider to the world’s first fully scaled automated textile sorting facility, SIPtex, established in Malmö, Sweden in 2021. Photo courtesy of Tomra

Technologies That Can Close the Loop From Fiber to Fiber An emerging theme at the huge ITMA 2023 textile machinery exhibition held in Milan, Italy, last June, was the need …

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The BioFibreLoop partners at the kick-off event at DITF.

The German Institute of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF) is coordinating a research project, funded as part of the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program, that aims …

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