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Keeping with it’s sock hop celebration theme, the company is releasing a collection of Celliant Home textiles with names like Boogie, Twist and Swing. Celliant textiles are already used in a wide range of products including bedding and athletic apparel.

Currently, the company has exclusive manufacturing and distribution rights on Celliant for the contract and home furnishings fabric markets in North America, Mexico and the Caribbean.

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Nonwoven fabrics having reached a high state of technical development are also important to the region’s economy and are increasingly studied and researched at the University. Huddersfield and its University have a long tradition of excellence in woven textiles. Dr Hewitt’s technical textiles background means that he will develop courses in this subject area at the University of Huddersfield’s Department of Fashion and Textiles. He quoted that, “They can be produced from any fibrous material, including polyesters, cottons, viscoses, carbon fibre, glass fibre or any combination.”