Teijin Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, has announced that for the third consecutive year it has produced an eco-friendly Green Carpet made of PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles, for the environmentally minded Tokyo International Film Festival, which will be held from October 23 to October 31. The Green Carpet is made entirely of Teijin Fibers’ ECOPET® recycled polyester [...]
Breast cancer is the leading cause of death for women between the ages of 35 and 55; one out of every eight women will develop breast cancer during her lifetime. The cure rate is 90 percent or greater if the disease is detected in its earliest stages. This October 27-29, at IFAI Expo Americas in [...]
Teijin Ltd. announced today that it has been named, following last year, to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World), a global indicator for Social Responsible Investment (SRI). The new DJSI World list was made effective on September 20, 2010. Of the 318 companies selected this year, 36 are Japanese. (Among the nine companies [...]
AATCC’s newest monograph, “Antimicrobial Testing & Technology,” is available for easy download. The monograph is a searchable collection of antimicrobial research papers presented at AATCC Conferences. “Antimicrobial textiles have become very important to both the textile and apparel industries and consumers over the past several years,” notes AATCC’s director of business development Perry Grady. “This [...]
On Tuesday, November 16, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. (EST), the U.S. Department of Commerce, Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA), will host a webinar on trade preferences for apparel wholly manufactured or knit–to–shape in Haiti. The webinar will feature background on the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement Act of 2006 (HOPE), the Food Conservation [...]
The Expenditure Finance Committee of India has just approved the Technology Mission on Technical Textiles (TMTT), which will fund the creation of four new Centers of Excellence (CoE) with an investment of $22.2 million. The news was revealed to Seshadri Ramkumar of Texas Tech University by a senior government official of the Ministry of Textiles [...]
TenCate Geosynthetics, Pendergrass, Ga., recently received a U.S. patent for its Miramesh® SG woven geosynthetic, which combines the benefits of its Miramesh GR open biaxial fibers with green synthetic grass fibers. The product, designed to stabilize soil on steep slopes and wire basket walls, immediately creates a finished, fully vegetated-looking wall face and eliminates the [...]
Devastating droughts throughout the southeastern U.S. raised concerns about sufficient water supply and the environmental impact of wastewater from the Polymer Group Inc. (PGI) plant in Mooresville, N.C. A team of 20 PGI employees, led by Jeff Ward, reliability engineer and green project leader, went to work on a solution—a new way to treat cooling [...]
Glen Raven Technical Fabrics LLC has added fabric lamination capabilities to its Park Avenue finishing plant located in Glen Raven, N.C., moving lamination equipment from its Statesville facility (and offering Statesville employees the opportunity to transfer as well). The Park Avenue plant’s associates will work on further enhancing the process and developing new product applications. [...]
Vicar Intl., Union, N.J., and Renolit AG, Germany, have entered into a partnership for distribution of Renolit Kalglas press-polished PVC sheets to the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico. Vicar will take on the responsibility for sales to the automotive aftermarket and convertible top industry throughout these territories, shipping all accounts from the warehouse in Union. [...]
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