Archive: November 2020

With incontinence affecting 4–8% of the world’s adult population, hygiene and health company Essity has launched a reusable digital sensor for improved incontinence care for...

Using the Myanmar freedom of association guidelines, the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM) has achieved the reinstatement of three union leaders at Glory Fashion,...

Bamboo is the latest addition to the Philippines’ natural fibres, joining pineapple, abaca and banana, which are being converted into fabric and textiles by the...

Indorama Ventures has, through its subsidiary Indorama Polyester Industries (IPI), entered into a joint venture agreement with Toyobo to form a 50:50 joint venture limited...

Turkmen textile factory Yenis, based in the Mary region, posted a record increase in production for the first eight months of the year.

Amid the threat of a second wave of coronavirus (Covid-19), demand for textile products and clothing in Russia is declining, with a negative effect on...

Geo-M-Tex, one of Georgia’s largest textile and clothing producers, part of Delta Textile Group, will become an exclusive supplier of clothing and uniforms for the...

A circular fashion online marketplace has been established by two Bulgarian entrepreneurs.

The government of Uzbekistan plans to speed up the standardisation process of textile production in a move to bring it to global manufacturing standards.

The government of Kyrgyzstan, together with private investors, is continuing to build a new textile factory in the Southern Kyrgyzstan region.

Empa researchers in Switzerland have developed a material that works like a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) and can be applied to textile fibres, opening up the possibility...

Biomedical fabric manufacturer Cortland Biomedical said it remains on track to complete the transition to its new purpose-built manufacturing facility in the first quarter of...

Sensors have been printed directly onto human skin without the use of heat in an international project led by Huanyu Cheng, at the Pennsylvania State University Department...

Biomaterial manufacturing company 3D BioFibR has raised US$550,000 to fund development and commercialisation of its tissue engineering/biomedical device products and to scale up manufacturing of...