This year at FloorTek, exhibitor Card Monroe Corp will be unveiling their revolutionary new tufting technology, the Tailored Loop Machine. This new machine allows for direct single-loop control, effectively providing designers with near-limitless possibilities when creating soft-surface floorcovering.
As spreading wearable devices in the market, new devices that are not recognizable at first sight have also been appearing. Teijin promotes the development of wearable devices integrating highly functional materials, sensing techniques and knowhow in home healthcare to provide new solutions to create value needed by society.
Wearable solutions offered by Teijin include;
New coaching wear helps to improve sports skills
Intertextile Shanghai Home Textiles marks its 25th anniversary with an increase in exhibitors.
Covering seven halls at the National Exhibition and Convention Center, around 1,150 exhibitors from 27 countries and regions will display their latest products and technologies for the home and contract textiles sectors. The 2018 expo hosted 1,091 exhibitors as well as 39,730 trade buyers from 104 countries and regions.
PrettyLittleThing and Missguided have hit the big time selling £5 dresses and £1 bikinis to the youth market but another online British brand, Hush, is expanding rapidly in a backlash against fast fashion.
Sales at London-based Hush, which is run by a husband and wife team, jumped 35% last year to more than £40m as its jumpsuits and dresses found an audience among women aged 35 to 45 who, it says, “like fashion but are not a slave to it”.
Speculation about future technologies is a staple of internet discussion but the clothes of the future are seldom included. When I interviewed science-fiction author Neal Stephenson recently, he opined that clothing was “pretty highly evolved" already and was unlikely to get any better. I am more optimistic.
Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) today announced a new water action strategy that represents an evolution in thinking around water use in a global supply chain, particularly in areas already facing water stress, and a new way to define successful water stewardship in manufacturing. It leverages the latest water science and data, consultations with leading water experts, and the company’s own water management experience and leadership over the past three decades to set a new standard for the company and the industry.
If anyone doubts the staying power of cotton, consider that it was used 7,000 years ago for clothing in Ancient India, according to “The History of Clothing.” Its popularity has only continued, as modern performance technology has enhanced cotton’s natural properties so brands and designers can meet consumer demand for the fiber.
Nanotex, a leading provider of nanotechnology solutions for textiles, has a number of innovations that are applicable to cotton, said Kathryn Czuchra, marketing manager.
A list of terms and definitions that can be used within the burgeoning smart textiles community was the first standard approved by ASTM International’s smart textiles subcommittee.
Man-made fibre (MMF) industry is contributing 2% to India’s GDP and providing jobs to over 18 million people directly and more than 20 million indirectly and technical textiles are expected to see a significant growth in coming time, according to a textiles export body.
Synthetic & Rayon Textiles Export Promotion Council chairman Ronak Rughani said with an increasing focus on protecting environment, the demand for man-made fibre (MMF) textiles as a substitute for cotton is growing globally.
As the microelectronic industry is now shifting toward wearable electronic gadgets and electronic (e-)textiles, the comprising electronic materials, such as ferroelectrics, should be integrated with our clothes. Nylons, a family of synthetic polymers, were first introduced in the 1920s' for women's stockings and are nowadays among the most widely used synthetic fibers in textiles. They consist of a long chain of repeated molecular units, i.e. polymers, where each repeat unit contains a specific arrangement of hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen with carbon atoms.
