CLOTHING AND TEXTILE FIRMS INNOVATE WITH ANTI-MICROBIAL FABRICS AND PRODUCTS, MEETING DEMAND FUELLED BY COVID-19

TEXTILE and fibre innovators worldwide are seeking to tap growing demand for antimicrobial, virus and bacteria killing fibres and fabrics generated by the Covid-19 pandemic, encouraging clothing and fabric-makers to develop groundbreaking new technology. Indeed, for companies such as HeiQ Materials AG – a Switzerland based textile innovation specialist - the pandemic has “opened a whole new chapter for the development of antimicrobial surfaces and textiles”, its co-founder and CEO Carlo Centonze told just-style. Having researched antivirals already, the ...


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