EU RESEARCH PROJECT TRIES TO BOOST INNOVATION IN EUROPEAN TEXTILE MACHINERY
June 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project is trying to boost innovation in European-made textile machinery, helping small-and-medium sized companies fend off Asian competition. The NU-WAVE project has a Euro EUR2.5 million budget and ends this December.
Its aims to make EU companies' machines "more flexible, productive and efficient to...cope with highly variable and functionalised textile products", reducing energy usage, noise and vibration, said the European Commission. Partners include Italy's Comez Gestioni and Giussani Srl; ...
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