Techtextil 2022
Two VDMA sustainability awards of the German textile machinery industry 2022 presented to young engineers from ITM
The awarding of the 2022 promotional prizes of the Walter Reiners Foundation of the VDMA, Textile Machinery Association, to students and young engineers from German universities for outstanding achievements in their studies took place on 22 June 2022 during Techtextil 2022 in Frankfurt/Main. The nationwide promotional awards were presented by Mr. Peter D. Dornier, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Walter Reiners Foundation, at the VDMA exhibition stand. For the first time, the focus of the selection of the submitted works was on sustainability.
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Nonwovens / Technical Textiles
Nominations are open for prestigious RISE® Innovation Award
INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, has announced the nomination process is now open for the annual RISE® Innovation Award. The prestigious award will be presented at the RISE® (Research, Innovation & Science for Engineered Fabrics) Conference – September 27-28, 2022, at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. RISE® 2022 is a two-day conference presenting insightful research and science that propels product development.
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Yarn & Fiber
Quality, sustainable blend of domestic and international exhibitors confirmed for Yarn Expo Autumn
One of the key challenges for the textile industry has been finding innovative ways to improve sustainability, while simultaneously maintaining and exceeding expected standards of quality. At Yarn Expo Autumn, set to take place from 29 – 31 August at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai, fairgoers will be able to source quality fibres and yarns that align with consumers’ eco-friendly expectations.
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Textiles & Apparel / Garment
Frankfurt Agreement: 25 European fashion institutions creating the “European Fashion Alliance”.
A powerful new network of fashion organisations aiming to unite and change the European fashion landscape.
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Recycling
Spinnova partners with imogo to apply resource-efficient dyeing with sustainable SPINNOVA® fabrics
The partnership between the two textile companies is a promising shift towards responsible textile value chains and proves that sustainability and durability can go hand in hand. The first products made from SPINNOVA® and dyed with imogo’s resource-efficient technology are planned to be launched later this year.
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Nilit presents first-ever biomass balance nylon 6.6 for technical fabrics at Techtextil in Frankfurt, Hall 9.1 Booth D64
Made with New Renewable Feedstock to Reduce Carbon Footprint
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When talking about recycled materials, origin matters
Campaigns advertising textile products made of recycled materials are becoming more frequent. But do we have a clear idea of where these recycled materials come from? Do consumers assume recycled cotton or recycled polyester come from used clothes? Because, in most cases, they do not.
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Freudenberg Performance Materials (Freudenberg) is endorsing further particularly sustainable products with its ECO-CHECK label introduced last year. These products comply with various environmental criteria. With immediate effect, five more solutions bear the label making the company’s commitment to sustainability visible.
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Lenzing Group, a leading global producer of wood-based specialty fibers, showcased its new carbon neutral LENZING™ FR fiber offering for the Protective Wear segment at Techtextil Frankfurt today. Lenzing demonstrated its new offering through a collaboration with long-term partner Textil Santanderina, a Spanish textile company.
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Prioritizing the replacement of environmentally polluting polyester in textiles has led to Swedish Renewcell and Swiss HeiQ signing a strategic partnership to manufacture circular HeiQ AeoniQ cellulose filament yarn from textile-to-textile recycled CIRCULOSE® pulp supplied by Renewcell. This partnership enables the incorporation of recycled raw materials in the most modern, climate positive and environmentally friendly yarn production process to enable 100% circularity in the textile industry.
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Bamboo is a perennial grass that is one of the fastest-growing plants in the world. It can quickly regrow after harvest making it an ideal tree and plastic free alternative for other renewable raw materials. As a pioneer in sustainable nonwoven innovations, Suominen launches BIOLACE® Bamboo also in the Americas to answer the need of the market for more sustainable nonwovens.
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Lectra supports its customers by designing and developing cutting-edge solutions that combine software, equipment, data and services to make its offer the gateway to Industry 4.0.
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EURATEX’s ReHubs initiative plans to pursue fiber-to-fiber recycling for 2.5 millions tons of textile waste by 2030. According ReHubs Techno Economic Master Study (TES), the textile recycling industry could generate in Europe around 15,000 direct new jobs by 2030, and increase need for nearshoring and reshoring of textile manufacturing
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Itema, the leading Italian manufacturer of advanced weaving solutions, including weaving machines, spare parts, and integrated services, exhibits the most comprehensive weaving portfolio on the market to weave technical fabrics at Techtextil, from June 21st to 24th (Hall 12 - Booth A50) in Frankfurt, Germany.
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In the year of its 100th birthday RUDOLF, the global provider of responsible specialty chemicals, sustainable solutions and services for the global textile industry will be at TECHTEXTIL to present its latest innovations and process solutions.
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Copenhagen Fashion Summit: STTI calls for responsible purchasing practices and global standardisation on due diligence
STTI spokesperson and Vice President BGMEA Miran Ali called for a globally standardised approach to due diligence at the prestigious Global Fashion Summit last week.
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Devan lives up to its sustainability legacy and expands cooling technology range
Heimtextil Frankfurt 2022 is not really the winter fair people are used to visit. Temperatures will be more summer-like. For Devan, the same recipe holds though: launch novel technologies to the Home Textiles market!
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Junior engineers with focus on sustainability
On the occasion of the Techtextil fair in Frankfurt, the Chairman of VDMA’s Walter Reiners-Stiftung Foundation, Peter D. Dornier, has awarded prizes to seven successful young engineers. For the first time, the Foundation awarded two Sustainability Awards. They are awarded to academic works in which, for example, solutions for resource-saving products and technologies are developed.
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C&S acquires Texo S.R.L. and strengthens the company’s position in the luxury segment.
With what appears to be a new step ahead for the evolution of the whole fashion field, C&S, a leader in manufacturing Made in Italy fashion apparel, has acquired Texo S.R.L., a company based in Cagli (Pesaro and Urbino) which brings to the table 10 years of experience in the production of fashion apparel for Texo and for third parties.
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Data-based success for fabric manufacturers
Producing quality fabrics is much easier with automated inspection. Uster EVS Fabriq Vision gathers quality data and presents it in an album, which is used to certify the quality of each fabric roll, with total traceability. It combines quality assurance and process optimization – automatically – in a solution which is already popular in technical textiles.
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Techtextil Innovation Award 2022 goes to ITM for novel textile heart valve prostheses developed
Scientists from the Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Textile Materials (ITM) at TU Dresden have been awarded the Techtextil Innovation Award 2022 in the "New Product" category at the Techtextil 2022 international trade fair for their woven heart valve implants.
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Techtextil 2022
Automotive, Medicine & Apparel: Techtextil and Texprocess Innovation Awards transmit textile innovations and buying motivation to numerous branches of the industry
After a Corona-related break of three years, the leading trade fairs Techtextil and Texprocess are once again presenting the renowned Innovation Awards. The award-winning new developments from areas such as New Products, Sustainability and Automation demonstrate: Textile innovations and technologies provide impulses for many branches of the industry and promise market and sales success far beyond their own sector. 13 winners from seven categories will be honored at a public awards ceremony at Techtextil and Texprocess on 21 June, 2022.
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Discover bio circular Fibre shaping sustainable living with Beaulieu Fibres International at Techtextil 22
Beaulieu Fibres International, the largest and most differentiated European staple fibre producer, turns the spotlight on future-focused solutions for nonwovens & engineered fabrics at Techtextil 22, this June 21st – 24th (Booth C43). A key priority is innovation in polyolefin fibres and bicomponent polyester/polyolefin fibres, to advance sustainable design, end-of-life recyclability, and resource and carbon footprint reduction for industrial and hygiene applications.
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RadiciGroup at Techtextil with innovative textile solutions
Target markets: automotive, furnishings, sports and technical apparel. New product entry: radipeople® line of personal protective equipment.
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Archroma to introduce new PFC-free* Smartrepel® technology for durable water-based soil repellence
Archroma, a global leader in specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, launches Smartrepel® Hydro SR liq, a new PFC-free* technology for the repellence of water-based stains.
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Texprocess 2022: Solutions for future textile processing
The garment and textile processing industry meets for the first time after the Corona-related break in Frankfurt at Texprocess, the leading trade fair for the sector, opening its doors for four days on June 21, 2022. "Technology manufacturers have great expectations for the first leading trade fair for the sector after such a long time", said Elgar Straub, Managing Director of VDMA Textile Care, Fabric and Leather Technologies at the VDMA TFL press conference at Texprocess.
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Record sales at ITM 2022 Exhibition bringing textile technology leaders together
ITM 2022, the first major international textile machinery exhibition held in the world after a 3-year hiatus, hosted textile technology leaders in Istanbul for 5 days. Record sales were achieved at the ITM 2022 Exhibition, where the latest innovations in every field of textile from weaving, knitting, yarn, digital printing, finishing to denim were exhibited and world launches were performed. The ITM 2022 Exhibition, where a business volume of over 1.5 billion Euros was created in 5 days, accelerated the Turkish and world economy.
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Bluesign announces partnership with SCTI to create the first comprehensive sustainable chemistry index for the textile industry
Bluesign has teamed up with Sustainable Chemistry for the Textile Industry (SCTI™) to develop a sustainable chemistry index that will provide a standard communication guide for chemical suppliers, manufacturers, brands, and NGOs
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Beaulieu Technical Textiles: go green with some of the most sustainable geotextiles in the industry
Beaulieu Technical Textiles (BTT) has unveiled the next step in its mission to deliver sustainable solutions to customers - product specific Environmental Product Declarations (EPD), an essential tool for communicating sustainability performance - to fully support green certified construction projects by providing accurate information in readily available formats.
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Opening the door to Bio-based Nonwovens in Reusable Textiles - Kelheim Fibres wins Techtextil Innovation Award
The renowned viscose specialities manufacturer Kelheim Fibres has won the Techtextil Award in the "New Concept" category for their project "Cellulose-based nonwovens for highly absorbent reusable products".
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