Sticky Back for Fabrics by VELCRO® is an easy to apply peel-and-stick, hook and loop fastener that provides a permanent bond to fabrics without sewing, gluing or ironing. It is used for repairing fabric and clothing, creating quick Halloween costumes, attaching patches and personalizing. Embellishments can be easily changed out to stylize a garment or [...]

The Easy Display from Tex Visions makes advertising not only easy, but easily portable. The banner stand is simple to set up and arrives with prints installed. Connect the three-part aluminum pole to the base and attach the top clamping rail to complete the assembly. LIghtweight display comes with an economy bag and carrying case [...]

The Hohenstein Institute, Boenningheim, Germany, will go to the ends of the earth—and beyond—in its search for better ways to find textile solutions for extremes of stress, climate and even zero gravity. The six-month “Blue Dot” space mission launched in May, and a German astronaut on the International Space Station will carry out the first [...]

Martex Fiber recently expanded its Spartanburg, S.C., plant capacity by more than 20 percent by installing a fiber reclamation line to produce additional value-added fibers for use in the automotive, upholstery and yarn sectors. The expansion is part of the company’s “No Fiber Left Behind” program, which saves textile waste from landfills by ensuring that [...]

Wearable technology is the buzz among global corporations vying to produce the jacket that charges a cell phone, helmet that becomes an airbag or sports bra that measures heart rate. A new report from IDTechEx, a Cambridge, U.K., business research firm, suggests that wearable technologies are also going to the dogs… cats… and other domestic [...]

Dephotex, a project funded by the European Union to develop solar-powered clothing, has been at the forefront of methods to make photovoltaic material light and flexible enough to be worn. “Flexible, light and durable solar cells embedded in fabrics are expected to be available in the very near future,” says Dephotex project manager Fanny Breuil [...]

INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, hosts the VISION Consumer Products Conference each year, focusing on the absorbent product and disposable hygiene market segments. In May, INDA purchased the INSIGHT International Conference from Marketing Technology Service Inc. (MTS), Kalamazoo, Mich., combining the two events into the largest event of its kind. The INSIGHT [...]

The first Conference on Nonwovens for High-performance Applications was held in Cannes, France, in March 2014. Those who could not attend the two-day event on the Cote d’Azur can benefit from the 17 presentations, now available for purchase on a CD-Rom (pdf and audio files). Major themes of the meeting were changes from commodity to [...]

The Government of Mexico Secretariat of the Economy imposed an anti-dumping duty on synthetic fiber blankets made in China following a one-year investigation spurred by complaints from two Mexican manufacturers. Imports of manmade fiber blankets originating in China will be subject to anti-dumping duty if the customs value of the products is less than $12.10 [...]

Green roofs benefit the environment by soaking up stormwater and cooling sun-baked buildings. They also add natural beauty, style and design to normally barren spaces, bringing that ineffable environmental improvement called joy to the people who use and see the building. While green roofs are popular in Europe, they are less common in the U.S. [...]