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1. Carnegie's Biobased Xorel Is First Textile To Achieve Living Product Challenge Certification 1/3/2020

   Biobased Xorel; the groundbreaking environmental high-performance textile sourced from sugar cane is the FIRST textile product to achieve Living Product Challenge Certification. Carnegie becomes the first textile company to achieve this advanced protocol

2. Textil del Valle South America Selects Kornit Digital For Direct-To-Garment Printing 1/2/2020

   Kornit Digital (Nasdaq: KRNT), a worldwide market leader in digital textile printing technology, today announced that Textil del Valle South America, a vertically integrated garment manufacturing company based in Peru, has chosen to implement Kornit’s digital direct-to-garment (DTG) printing technology at its 1.1 million-square-foot facility in Lima, Peru

3. Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Readies For First Commercial Shipment Of Recombinant Spider Silk And Accelerated Growth In Production 12/17/2019

   Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, Inc. (“Company”), the leading developer of spider silk based fibers, announced today that the Company is nearing completion of the second production cycle, of recombinant spider silk, at its Vietnamese production factory

4. HeiQ And Standard Fibers To Announce Next Generation Bio-Based ‘Starts Cool, Stays Cool’ Fabric Technology 12/17/2019

   HeiQ adds bio-based thermo-functional polymer products to their HeiQ Smart Temp family for a full range of intelligent thermoregulation triggered by body heat

5. Researchers Mold Silk Into Wide Range Of Products 12/16/2019

   Researchers led by engineers at Tufts University have developed a novel, significantly more efficient fabrication method for silk that allows them to heat and mold the material into solid forms for a wide range of applications, including medical devices

6. Light, Strong, And Tough: Researchers At The University Of Bayreuth Discover Unique Polymer Fibres 12/13/2019

   Strong and tough yet as light as a feather – materials with this exceptional combination of properties are urgently needed in many industrial sectors and in medicine, as well as being of great interest for scientific research

7. Idealliance Continues Leadership In The Global Industry By Introducing The Idealliance Large Format-Industrial-Textile Printing Control Wedge 12/13/2019

   Idealliance, known for creating legendary print standards and specifications such as GRACoL, SWOP, and G7, and countless ISO standards, is releasing a Large Format-Industrial-Textile Printing Control Wedge to dramatically help users in wide format, industrial, and textile printing

8. Founder’s Hemp Partners With Nufabrx® To Reinvigorate The North Carolina Textile Industry 12/12/2019

   Founder’s Hemp, North Carolina’s first registered hemp processing company, and Nufabrx®, a biomaterials technology company, announced a partnership to reinvigorate the North Carolina Textile Industry by introducing infused textiles, and bringing new quality textile jobs to the area

9. Panda Biotech Plans The Largest Industrial Hemp Processing Facility For Fiber And Cellulose In The United States 12/10/2019

   Dallas-based Panda Biotech today announced it is developing its first industrial hemp processing facility to produce high-quality, textile-grade fiber and premium cellulose

10. Ring Spinning… As Good As It Can Be 12/10/2019

    STER SENTINEL enables practical optimization for managers and shop floor personnel