Bayer MaterialScience LLC, Pittsburgh, Pa., will be separated from Leverkusen, Germany-based Bayer AG later this year with the intention of being floated on the stock market as a separate company by mid-2016. The company has chosen Covestro as its new name, effective Sept. 1, 2015. Its vision is to make the world a brighter place [...]

The deadline to submit entries for the IFF (Industrial Fabrics Foundation) Innovation Award has been extended to June 26. The goal of the award is to inspire companies around the globe to not only come up with great ideas, but to make them happen, sharing their stories from innovative concept to inspired product. There are [...]

The Association of Textile, Apparel & Materials Professionals (AATCC) now offers on-site test method training, bringing customized training to the client’s facility. The client chooses the date, location and test methods, and AATCC provides hands-on instruction for AATCC test methods, ASTM textile testing methods and related topics. Training programs include lectures, hands-on demonstrations and question-and-answer [...]

Mutoh America Inc., Phoenix, Ariz., will be hosting one-day RIP (raster image processor) software workshops to teach the ins and outs of how to optimize Flexi, Caldera and ONYX textile RIP software. The workshops are broken into two sessions: an introduction to RIP software from 9 a.m. to noon, followed by in-depth training from 1–4 [...]

Small business mentoring organization SCORE has released an infographic featuring statistics on which sources are providing small businesses with the best business-to-business (B2B) sales leads and what percentage of leads convert to each stage of the sales funnel. It also presents data on the most effective sales practices for small businesses, including the average number [...]

An international research team has developed a new technique to embed transparent, flexible graphene electrodes into fibers commonly associated with the textile industry, such as polypropylene. The team includes experts from the Centre for Graphene Science at the University of Exeter in England; the Institute for Systems Engineering and Computers, Microsystems and Nanotechnology (INESC-MN) in [...]

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Changzhou (China) National Hi-Tech District’s Textile and Dyeing Industrial Park will implement a series of innovative approaches to water management to boost social and economic sustainable development and gradually turn the Taihu basin into a model of proper ecological management and governance. The project is expected [...]

The International OEKO-TEX Association, Zurich, Switzerland, announced that 10 companies received STeP (Sustainable Textile Production) certification between November 2014 and February 2015. The certification demonstrates their commitment to environmental protection, sustainability and social responsibility in accordance with STeP by OEKO-TEX. The companies include Bangladesh-based Mondol Knit-Tex Ltd.; Quanzhou Suntex Garments Co. Ltd. and Loftex China [...]