The San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD) has become the largest department in the USA to transition its entire frontline ...

A new report from Cientifica Research, Smart Textiles and Wearables: Markets, Applications and Technologies examines the markets for textile based wearable technologies, the companies producing them ...

Technology developed in the USA will be used by a Chinese company to supply European sports brand adidas with T-shirts made in the US by robots. This is a major breakthrough in the automation of ...

Specialists from McLaren and Bcomp explain the development and advantages of Formula One motor racing’s first natural fibre composite racing seat. Since the inaugural round of the FIA Formula One ...

Amsterdam-based Fashion for Good is launching the Renewable Carbon Textiles Project, bringing together a powerful consortium to accelerate the development of polyhydroxyalkanoates or PHA polymer ...

Canberra-headquartered Australian biotech innovator Samsara Eco’s new plant in Jerrabomberra, New South Wales, is set to open mid-year as the company scales up production and further develops its ...

Since Nike’s flat knitted Flyknit technology debuted in the Flyknit Racer running shoe in the London Olympics in 2012, the innovative manufacturing process has, according to the company, reduced waste ...

Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson MedTech company based in Raritan, New Jersey, has announced the approval of Ethizia, an adjunctive hemostat solution which has been clinically proven to achieve sustained ...

Milliken & Company’s Textile Division has been involved in the development of a unique, high-performance technical textile – some 76 metres in length – that is central to a patented wastewater ...

Brands and retailers are under immense pressure to provide textile and apparel products which are environmentally sustainable. At the same time, there is an urgent need to reduce the amount of waste ...

Swiss high-tech textiles developer Schoeller technologies has launched a new fabric range called ‘energear’ which uses Far Infrared Rays to ensure that energy radiated by the body is recovered to ...

Skyscrape Inc., a Portland-based textile start-up, has developed a temperature responsive fabric with the power to disrupt the apparel industry’s approach to clothing insulation as we know it.