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COVID-19 INSPIRES DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-VIRAL KNITWEAR
COVID-19 has unleashed a significant boom in demand for apparel and other wearables that are anti-viral, cleansing consumers’ bodies of viruses, as well as bacteria.
Companies making fibres and yarns have been quick to tout anti-viral technologies. Examples include HeiQ Materials AG – a Switzerland based textile innovation specialist, which has been selling a new anti-virus textile treatment HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03, added to textile products during final processing and utilising anti-microbial silver, whose charge attracts viruses to spherical liposomes which deplete the virus membrane of cholesterol, allowing the silver to kill them.…
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION IN PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE CAN PAY DIVIDENDS FOR TEXTILE SECTOR
INTRODUCTION
NEW technology can deliver effective maintenance strategies to clothing and textile manufacturers, helping them go beyond reactive and proactive maintenance, moving into the more sophisticated world of prediction. The goal is to deliver an optimum maintenance strategy that enables manufacturers to get the most value out of their plant and equipment by spending the least amount of time, resources and money to deliver effective performance.…
FOREIGN TEXTILE INVESTMENT MESHES WITH VIETNAM GOVERNMENT PLAN TO UPGRADE TECH IN SECTOR
Vietnam’s textile-garment sector has been known for low labour productivity relative to China, but this has been changing as foreign-invested factories across the country bring in innovative processes and equipment. A key goal is taking advantage of Vietnam’s privileged access to major markets, especially the European Union (EU), with whom it has a free trade agreement.…
HYDROCARBON-BASED LUBRICANTS HAVE ROLES TO PLAY IN A DECARBONISING WORLD
Efforts to decarbonise transport and industry may be depressing global oil markets, but they are actually strengthening one key hydrocarbon niche – that of lubricants. Far from making such oils obsolete, the electric vehicles (EV) that are sold in increasing numbers (3.2 million worldwide in 2020 said the EV Volumes database) rely on transmission fluids, which can be made from fossil hydrocarbons.…
COVID-19 INSPIRES DEVELOPMENT OF ANTI-VIRAL KNITWEAR
COVID-19 has unleashed a significant boom in demand for apparel and other wearables that are anti-viral, cleansing consumers’ bodies of viruses, as well as bacteria.
Companies making fibres and yarns have been quick to tout anti-viral technologies. Examples include HeiQ Materials AG – a Switzerland based textile innovation specialist, which has been selling a new anti-virus textile treatment HeiQ Viroblock NPJ03, added to textile products during final processing and utilising anti-microbial silver, whose charge attracts viruses to spherical liposomes which deplete the virus membrane of cholesterol, allowing the silver to kill them.…
MYANMAR CLOTHING SECTOR LIKELY TO BE MAJOR LOSER FROM COUP, WARNS USA INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
The president of the United States Fashion Industry Association (USFIA) has warned that the military takeover in Myanmar could spark a significant shift in sourcing away from this south-east Asian country if democracy is not restored promptly. Julia Hughes told just-style: “If there is not a quick resolution, then yes we would expect a major shift to other Asian suppliers.”…
COVID-19 HAS ENCOURAGED INDIAN FOOD COMPANIES CONSIDERING AUTOMATION TO MAKE THESE INVESTMENTS
In India, the increased demand for branded food products and workplace restrictions on industrial labour caused by Covid-19 has inspired automation among food manufacturers. This investment is expected to standardise and increase the quality of products well into the future, well beyond the end of the pandemic.…
TEXTILE COATINGS EVOLVING IN LEAPS AND BOUNDS TO MEET NEW CHALLENGES
In the modern textile industry, coating, surface modification and laminating are the key means to tailor textiles and nonwovens to create functional products for specific, often high-performance, applications.
Such techniques have offered the sector potential advantages as it entered uncharted terrain in 2020, being at the forefront in humankind’s fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.…
GOVERNMENT LARGESSE TO EASE COVID-19 IMPACT TARGETED BY FRAUDSTERS
THE ONSET of Covid-19 has caused many fraud problems, but a particular difficulty has been fraudsters exploiting the unprecedented government largesse released designed to prevent economic collapse at the hands of the pandemic. In the UK, for instance, the House of Commons public accounts committee issued a report in October (2020), saying that Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs (HMRC) had reported 8,000 allegations from employees that their employers – supposed to pay a lower level of wages to staff to receive furlough payments under the UK Job Retention Scheme – had not actually made these payments, or paid less than they should.…
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES PUSH FORWARD WITH KNOTTY PROBLEM OF PHASING OUT THEIR NUCLEAR POWER SECTORS
WHILE investment into nuclear energy continues, especially in emerging market countries such as China, in Europe, this sector continues to dwindle in size, with some key countries sticking to plans to phase out the technology.
Concerns about safety and the environmental cost of its waste have encouraged Belgium, for example, to stick to its goal, as laid down in a January 2003 law (1), of stopping any nuclear energy production within the country by 2025, experts have told Energy World.…