27 July 2010, Friedrichshafen – New Zealand based merino
wool pioneer for the outdoors, Icebreaker, launched its new range of merino
technical knits for runners at this month’s leading Outdoor show which was held
in Friedrichshafen on the shores of Lake Constance in Germany.
Whil...
6 July 2010, Bönnigheim –
Researchers at the Hohenstein
Institute in Germany are helping local innovative manufacturers of
sportswear
fabrics to improve the functional properties of their knitted fabrics by
developing
practical construction guidelines.
In a recently comple...
4 June 2010, Exeter, Ontario – Canadian warp and circular
knitter Syfilco Ltd has reported its business is booming following the BP oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Syfilco, a family business founded in the 1970s manufactures
knitted polyester fabric sleeves and polyethylene netting sle...
27 April 2010, Buhler – US brand Descente is once again showing
its pioneering spirit in developing performance bike wear for serious cyclists.
The brand’s summer 2010 Avanti outfit uses a new high-tech fabric engineered by
Swiss knit fabric specialist Eschler which delivers addit...
18 August 2009, Albstadt – At this year’s Techtextil, the
leading technical textiles show which was held in Frankfurt in June, Groz-Beckert
used the platform to present its product diversity for knitting and other textile
technologies such as weaving, felting and sewing, to in...
13 August 2009,
Manchester – UK based SmartLife Technology Ltd, has been awarded an
international patent for a knitted ‘linear electronic transducer’ which is
incorporated into a garment in order to monitor a patient’s health.
The invention described in the paten...
16 June 2009,
Wilmington, DE - To support the Coolmax fabric brand in Europe, Invista,
together with its European licensee Advansa, has recently commissioned a
comprehensive brand tracking survey and launched an advertising campaign across
Germany, France, Spain, Italy and the UK.
‘...
22 May 2009, Frankfurt – Messe Frankfurt is to launch Texprocess,
a new machinery, equipment and process exhibition which will compliment Techtextil,
the leading technical textiles and nonwovens show. Texprocess will make its
debut in Frankfurt in parallel with Techtextil from 2011.
&nbs...
Techtextil – 16 to 18
June 2009, Frankfurt Am Main,
Germany
5 May 2009, Manchester – Innovation in Textiles,
an online news and technical resource for the technical textiles and nonwovens
industries and sister site to KnittingIndustry.com, is bringing
its readers, visitors to ...
Cath Rogan reports from Rome
Intertech Pira’s excellent annual Smart Fabrics conference
is now in its 5th year and this year (March 10th-12th 2009, Rome) welcomed over
150 delegates to an agenda packed with practical advice, inspirational ideas
and of course, a handful of spectacular but...
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