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Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) a public-private partnership that began at MIT, has officially opened its headquarters in Cambridge.
CEO Yoel Fink at the headquarters’ opening ceremony said that fabrics express who we are, convey our identity as individuals and our values as a society. A new high-tech fabric center has actually developed that technology.

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The University of Georgia to revolutionize the fiber and textiles industry through commercialization of highly functional, advanced fibers and textiles for the defense and commercial markets has partnership with a new national public-private consortium called Advanced Functional Fabrics of America, or AFFOA.

The AFFOA partnership builds on recent breakthroughs in fiber materials and manufacturing processes that will soon allow them to design and manufacture fabrics that see, hear, sense, communicate, store and convert energy, regulate temperature, monitor health and change color.