Smart textiles and wearable technology: opportunities for life enhancement and health management
Smart textiles and wearable technology have the potential to change the way people dress, communicate, respond to emergencies, manage their health and even entertain themselves.
Smart textiles and wearable technology: opportunities for life enhancement and health management
Smart textiles and wearable technology have the potential to change the way people dress, communicate, respond to emergencies, manage their health and even entertain themselves.
Smart textiles and wearable technology: opportunities for life enhancement and health management
The following new industry reports and a wide range of other reports are now available from Innovation in Textiles:
· Performance Apparel markets: Product developments and innovations (Q4 2011)
· Smart textiles and wearable technology: opportunities for life enhancement and health management
· Profile of WarmX: An innovative supplier of wearable technology
· Performance Apparel Markets: Business update Q4 2011
The following new industry reports and a wide range of other reports are now available from Innovation in Textiles:
· Performance Apparel markets: Product developments and innovations (Q4 2011)
· Smart textiles and wearable technology: opportunities for life enhancement and health management
· Profile of WarmX: An innovative supplier of wearable technology
· Performance Apparel Markets: Business update Q4 2011
Debra Cobb reports
Fashion apparel is in a print cycle. The shops are full of vibrant colours and patterns for Spring 2012, from graphic T’s, swimwear and floral dresses to boldly printed jeans, sweaters, jackets and blouses meant to be mixed and matched with abandon; and printed fashions from designers such as Mary Katmantzou and Peter Pilatti are hitting the Autumn/Winter 2012 runways. Our current love affair with prints owes much to digital inkjet printing, a technology which is changing the way prints are designed and utilised in fabrics for apparel.
28 February 2012, Philadelphia
For the past three years, Assistant Professor and Fashion Design Program Director Genevieve Dion of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design has focused her research on identifying production methods that advance the field of wearable technology.
28 February 2012, Philadelphia
For the past three years, Assistant Professor and Fashion Design Program Director Genevieve Dion of Drexel University’s Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design has focused her research on identifying production methods that advance the field of wearable technology.
Tokyo
Polyester producer Teijin Fibers Limited has announced it is supplying Nanofront high-strength polyester nanofibre for use in the palms of bicycle and motorcycle gloves made by Goldwin Inc., a major sport apparel maker in Japan. This is the first time Nanofront is to be used in bicycle and motorcycle gloves.
23 February 2012, Singapore
DyStar has joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) with the objective of strengthening its commitment towards sustainability.
23 February 2012, Singapore
DyStar has joined the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) with the objective of strengthening its commitment towards sustainability.
23 February 2012, Alba
A year after its launch at Expofil, Filature Miroglio, manufacturer of the Newlife fibre platform presented its Newlife Eco-Innovation Library at last week’s Première Vision in Paris. The Italian company reports great interest and turnout for Newlife and the innovative materials made with its 100% recycled premium fibre.
Alba
A year after its launch at Expofil, Filature Miroglio, manufacturer of the Newlife fibre platform presented its Newlife Eco-Innovation Library at last week’s Première Vision in Paris. The Italian company reports great interest and turnout for Newlife and the innovative materials made with its 100% recycled premium fibre.
Victoria, BC & Portland, OR
Naturally Advanced Technologies Inc. (NAT), which produces and markets CRAiLAR, a natural fibre made from flax and other bast fibres, announced that TSX Venture Exchange has named the Company to its 2012 TSX Venture 50, a list assembled based on quantitative measurement of top performing publicly traded companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). NAT was ranked fourth in Clean Tech sector.
22 February 2012, Beaverton, OR
Sportswear and sports shoe giant Nike Inc. has announced the launch of a revolutionary new running shoe which uses state-of-the-art integral knitting techniques to create a one piece upper which is virtually seamless. The Nike Flyknit upper is engineered for precision fit and aims to create the feeling of a second skin for runners.
22 February 2012, Beaverton, OR
Sportswear and sports shoe giant Nike Inc. has announced the launch of a revolutionary new running shoe which uses state-of-the-art integral knitting techniques to create a one piece upper which is virtually seamless. The Nike Flyknit upper is engineered for precision fit and aims to create the feeling of a second skin for runners.
Billy Hunter reports from Paris
21 February 2012, Paris
At the spring trade shows in Paris last week, leading Austrian cellulosic fibre producer Lenzing presented its latest eco fibre, MicroModal Edelweiss, which is made from European beech wood using eco manufacturing processes.
Billy Hunter reports from Paris
20 February 2012, Paris
At the spring trade shows in Paris last week, leading Austrian cellulosic fibre producer Lenzing presented its latest eco fibre, MicroModal Edelweiss, which is made from European beech wood using eco manufacturing processes.
20 February 2012, Zurich
The Switzerland based International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) has published its State of Trade Report for the 3rd Quarter of 2011. The organisation reports that global yarn and fabric production were up in Q3 and that estimates for Q4 are also positive.
20 February 2012, Zurich
The Switzerland based International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) has published its State of Trade Report for the 3rd Quarter of 2011. The organisation reports that global yarn and fabric production were up in Q3 and that estimates for Q4 are also positive.
20 February 2012, Sevelen
Switzerland’s Schoeller Textil AG has a new medical textiles business called Schoeller Medical AG. The new subsidiary will focus on innovative healthcare projects and has launched its first product line of incontinence products.
20 February 2012, Florence
According to organisers, the 70th edition of Pitti Filati closed at the Fortezza da Basso (Florence, 25-27 January 2012) amidst an atmosphere of widespread optimism among trade visitors for a 2013 that promises to be much better than recent seasons.
20 February 2012, Munich
Leading manufacturer of warp knitted seamless (WKS) garments Cifra, which has recently signed a collaboration agreement with circular seamless giant Tefron, exhibited at ISPO in Munich last month for the first time, claiming the show was a resounding success. Cifra says buyers were actually queuing to get on to the company’s booth at the 17 hall, 80,000 visitor sportswear and sports equipment show.
| Schoeller Textil establishes medical division Source: innovationintextiles.com |  |
17 February 2012, Westerly, RI
As European swimwear, intimate and sports apparel manufacturers differentiate themselves and compete more successfully based on innovation and design, Varsha Peshavaria has joined Darlington Fabrics to support designers and manufacturers with new product development ideas and in-depth knowledge of fibres and stretch and warp knit fabrics.
| TenCate Advanced Armour opens sales office in Singapore Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| Xerium introduces advanced tissue fabric technology Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| ESI consolidates composites simulation offer Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| TenCate Advanced Composites gets supplier excellence award Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| Hohenstein opens testing lab in Hong Kong Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| Invisibility is the goal for truly smart fabrics Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
Debra Cobb reports from Munich
Winter ISPO in Munich, which features cutting-edge gear for winter sports’ enthusiasts, always attracts an enthusiastic crowd. This year’s exhibition, held January 20 – February 1, saw close to 80,000 visitors and over 2300 exhibitors come together to share the latest in clothing, hardware and technology designed to meet any challenges winter might bring.
10 February 2012, Bönnigheim
German scientists have developed a new versatile functional yarn which aims to give maximum comfort and has excellent thermal insulation properties. Working in partnership with Zwickauer Kammgarn GmbH and Helmut Peterseim Strickwaren GmbH in Mühlhausen, researchers at the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, have developed an innovative new yarn for knitted textiles.
| Innovative yarn for sportswear and leisure wear Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
9 February 2012, Montreal
Canada’s Trimera Group has announced the launch of its brand new Catalyst I warp and weft knit seamless knitting development and production centre in Montreal in March 2012.
9 February 2012, Hawick
Luxury Scottish knitwear and accessories manufacturer Johnston of Elgin is investing £1 million on a new visitor centre at its Hawick site in the Scottish Borders. The new development, which is due to open in May this year, will include a visitor centre with museum, coffee shop and retail space and is set to create new jobs whilst safeguarding existing jobs at the Eastfield Mills site.
9 February 2012, Paris
Korean fibre producer Hyosung has launched a new creora brand elastane with outstanding dyeability in blends with nylon for hosiery, warp knits, circular knits and wovens. New creora dyeable is said to be engineered in a proprietary way to allow absorption of dyestuffs and the delivery of superior colourfastness compared to regular elastane.
| ISPO's Innovations Meet Winters Challenge's Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
8 February 2012, Beaverton, OR
Nike announced this morning that it has entered into a strategic partnership with DyeCoo Textile Systems B.V., a Netherlands-based company that has developed and built the first commercially available waterless textile dyeing machines. By using recycled carbon dioxide, DyeCoo's technology eliminates the use of water in the textile dyeing process. The name DyeCoo was inspired by the process of ‘dyeing’ with ‘CO2.’
| Nike adopts waterless dyeing technology Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| Optimising Natural Fibres for Composites Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| Waste not, want not | |
| Waste not, want not Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| YKK launches revolutionary zipper concept Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
6 February 2012, Milan
In spite of an increase in production for 2011 by Italian textile machinery manufacturers, forecasts remain cautious for the current year. Provisional figures for 2011 for Italy’s textile machinery sector show a further increase in manufacturing production and exports, following a good recovery in 2010 and a recession hit 2009.
| Continued growth for Italian textile machinery sector Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| Oerlikon expands Sauber F1 partnership Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| Cleanroom installation at National Nonwovens Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
3 February 2012, Singapore
DyStar has announced it has joined the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC), the collaborative venture established in 2011 by leading apparel retailers, suppliers and manufacturers with participation from academics and NGOs.
| Hologenix develops new science advisory board Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
| Ahlstrom upgrades filtration test facility Source: innovationintextiles.com | |
1 February 2012, Biella
FILO, the International exhibition for fibres and yarns organized by AssoServizi Biella, started the run up to the 2012 show with two press conferences in Biella and Milan together with a presentation on the 37th edition.
1 February 2012, Shanghai
Despite a number of challenges, China's textile and clothing industry is said to be set for further growth while its competitors suffer declines as a result of cutbacks by retail buyers, according to a recent report from the global business information company Textiles Intelligence.
Sevelen
According to Schoeller Technologies, the efficacy its energear textile technology has been confirmed in an innovative test process at the Hohenstein Institute.
