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Naia from Eastman at NY Home Market Week
Naia™ from Eastman is proud to feature at NYC Market Week in the Lenzing Group’s NYC Showroom, celebrating the third anniversary of the Fiber Innovation Center. Alongside partners like TENCEL™ Fibers by Lenzing, 37.5® Technology, UNIFI®’s REPREVE®, and CiCLO® Technology, Naia™ is demonstrating how collaboration can lead to responsible innovation in the home textile sector.
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That’s a wrap: Yarn Expo Autumn facilitates global eco-transition with increased international participation and wider product offering
Welcoming nearly 22,000 buyers from 81 countries and regions to its recent edition, Yarn Expo Autumn leveraged its extensive network to build meaningful connections for nearly 540 global exhibitors from 15 countries and regions. Already a vibrant hub for East-West exchange, this edition saw a rise in domestic exhibitors and the inclusion of Germany and Thailand to the lineup, while international buyer numbers increased by 6.7%[1].
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Dornbirn-GFC 2024: Innovations for a Sustainable Textile Future
In lease than one week, the 63rd Dornbirn Global Fiber Congress (Dornbirn-GFC), set to take place from September 11-13, 2024, in Dornbirn, Austria, is shaping up to be a pivotal event for the global textile industry. As the largest fiber innovation congress in the world, the Dornbirn-GFC once again serves as a crucial platform for knowledge exchange, collaboration, and inspiration. This year, over 125 international speakers from industry and research will present groundbreaking innovations in the fiber and textile sectors, reflecting the major transformations currently shaping the industry.
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ROICA™ by Asahi Kasei shows special premium stretch ingredient “par excellence” in its partners’ collections
As Interfilière Paris is approaching, ROICA™ is pleased to introduce its three partners that will exhibit at the fair focusing on intimate wear: Iluna Group (Hall 7.2, Booth C19), Innova Fabrics (Hall 7.2, Booth E20) and Lauma Elastic (Hall 7.2, Booth D27). In addition, the company lets us know where else special premium stretch ingredient “par excellence” can be found in its partners' collections for the FW 2025-26 season with a focus on intimate wear. ROICA™ by Asahi Kasei is the premium smart stretch fiber that brings together high-tech performance, design and values linked to contemporary concepts of quality that include well-being, transparency and responsible, ethical production.
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UNIFI launches globally available circular polyester products made from textile waste
UNIFI, Inc. (NYSE: UFI), leading innovator in recycled and synthetic yarn, today announced the launch of two new products, making its circular REPREVE® offering the largest portfolio of regenerated performance polyester in the world. Powered by the Company’s proprietary Textile Takeback™ process, UNIFI® now offers white-dyeable filament yarn and a revolutionary insulation material, ThermaLoop™, representing a major leap forward in scalable textile-to-textile recycling.
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TENCEL™ refreshes brand identity, championing collective innovation towards a more responsible textile industry¹
The Lenzing Group, a leading supplier of regenerated cellulose fibers for the textile and nonwovens industries, today unveiled the latest evolution of its flagship textile brand TENCEL™, with a refreshed branding theme of “Nature. Future. Us.”. The updated brand identity embodies TENCEL™’s ethos of striving to embrace innovation and empower collaboration, with a focus on being a catalyst of change in the textile industry to safeguard the planet’s shared future(1).
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Bug-Safe thread and more at IBIA EXPO 2024
The bedding industry will meet Durak Tekstil’s innovative technical threads at IBIA EXPO 2024. Developed through intensive R&D, the thread portfolio provides new opportunities to manufacturers for many different applications while yielding more added value to the industry. The star of this year’s exhibition will be the new Bug-Safe thread.
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Samsara Eco and NILIT team up to build world-first Nylon 6,6 recycling facility
Samsara Eco, the enviro-tech innovator and NILIT, the world’s leader in the production of nylon 6,6 for apparel, have announced plans to explore investment and construction of a nylon 6,6 textile-to-textile recycled polymer production site in South East Asia to help close the loop on nylon 6,6.
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Low-dielectric quartz fiber prepreg from Teijin Group’s Renegade Materials Corp. is first to achieve NCAMP certification
Teijin Limited announced today that an epoxy thermoset prepreg on quartz fabric from its carbon fiber subsidiary, Renegade Materials Corporation, is the first such material to qualify for certification by the U.S. National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP). The high-performance, low- dielectric prepreg, made by impregnating woven quartz fabric with epoxy resin, is used for aircraft radar domes (radomes.) .
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Discontinuation of business with machinery and systems for the production of carpet yarns (BCF) and industrial yarns (IDY)
The Trützschler Group has discontinued the Man-Made Fibers Division. The production of machines and systems for the production of BCF and IDY has been discontinued. Trützschler is now focusing on its core businesses spinning, card clothing and nonwovens.
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Oerlikon Neumag is the new contact for customer services and spare parts for installed Truetzschler systems for carpet yarns and technical yarns
The Oerlikon Polymer Processing Solutions Division of the Swiss Oerlikon Group is expanding its customer services and spare parts business in the area of machines and systems for the production of carpet yarns (BCF) and industrial yarns (IDY). To this end, the company concluded an agreement with the Truetzschler Group, based in Moenchengladbach, Germany, in August. Technology experts and service staff from Oerlikon Neumag are now the new contacts for customer services and the spare parts business for Truetzschler's BCF and IDY technologies installed in the market.
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Anticipation builds as eventful Yarn Expo Autumn opens next week with 500+ global exhibitors
Counting down 5 days to the fair’s opening in Shanghai, exhibitors, visitors and industry experts from near and far are preparing to form valuable connections and seal business deals on the show floor. From 27 to 29 August, with spotlights on an array of innovative, green, and quality products, over 500 suppliers from 15 countries and regions will converge under the India Pavilion, Pakistan Zone and various other zones, including the Chemical Fibre Zone, Cotton Yarn Zone and Fancy Yarn Zone.
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Rohit Aggarwal to take over as CEO of Lenzing
The Lenzing Group, a leading supplier of regenerated cellulose fibers for the textile and nonwovens industries, changes the composition of Management Board. Effective 1 September 2024, Rohit Aggarwal will join the Management Board as CEO. Stephan Sielaff, outgoing CEO of the company, will leave Lenzing at the end of August 2024 by mutual agreement with the Supervisory Board.
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