It is not just every other summer that people with an interest in textiles come to Frankfurt am Main; they are also here every January. Heimtextil is the international trade fair for home and contract textiles and every year it extends an invitation to trade visitors from all over the world to visit the Frankfurt ... Read more...
Numerous studies show that nitrogen oxides are harmful to both humans and nature. The main cause is, above all, the traffic on the roads. An architect from Aachen now wants to trap this number-one air pollutant using coated fibres. Ronny Eckert Read more...
Revolutionary ideas are just what we need – above all in science and technology. Air taxis are just as revolutionary as artificial intelligence, self-drive cars or Elon Musk’s pneumatic ‘tube post’ – that he calls the Hyperloop – for transporting people and goods. No less needed are ideas for ways of fishing plastics from the ... Read more...
According to the Textile Machinery Division of the VDMA (Association of German Machine and Plant Manufacturers), German textile machine manufacturers exported € 233 millions’ worth of textile machinery and plant to the USA in 2017. They are benefiting from the growing demand for technical textiles worldwide, which are increasingly being manufactured by machines ‘made in ... Read more...
With ‘smart’ (i.e. electrically conductive) textiles, which can warm us, illuminate our lives with colourful lighting, monitor our vital parameters or communicate with our smartphones via Bluetooth, the textile industry is creating a whole new field of applications in which growth rates of up to 30 percent per annum are forecast. Ronny Eckert Read more...
Lindauer DORNIER GmbH presents at this year‘s Techtextil machines for upmarket high-tech textiles for the protection of people and the environment such as functional textiles for solid matter, wet and air filtration as well as shading. admin Read more...
The 3M subsidiary Dyneon is exhibiting at this year”s Techtextil its fluoropolymer product portfolio for use in architecture and construction. The focus will be on architectural membranes such as the glass fibre membranes coated with 3M Dyneon PTFE and films made of 3M Dyneon Fluoroplastic ETFE. admin Read more...