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Technical Textiles Business Update
Issue 216: December 2023

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Technical Textiles Business Update is an executive briefing, supplied in digital format. Each month, we report on the latest news from the international technical textiles and nonwovens market.
What's in it?

Technical Textiles Business Update contains independent research, insight and analysis on product innovations and business developments from the international technical textiles and nonwovens market. Topics regularly featured include:

  • acquisitions, divestments and mergers
  • chemicals
  • composites
  • environmental sustainability
  • events
  • fabrics
  • fibres
  • financial results
  • investments
  • joint ventures, cooperation, licensing and distribution
  • medical textiles
  • new facilities
  • nonwovens
  • recycling
  • threads
  • wearable technology
  • yarns

It also contains news from brands, companies, and other organisations, such as: Archroma, Ascend Performance Materials, Coats Group (Coats), Cygnet Texkimp, Dalco Nonwovens, Directa Plus, DSM Protective Materials, DITF Denkenford, DuPont, Euratex (the European Apparel and Textile Confederation), Freudenberg Performance Materials, Global Felt Technologies (GFT), Grand Largue Composites (GLC), HeiQ, Hexcel Corporation, Huntsman Textile Effects, International Fibres Group (IFG), Invista, Lenzing Group (Lenzing), Milliken & Company (Milliken), Nanollose, the National Graphene Institute (NGI), Rheon Labs, Sensoria Health, Schoeller Textil, Stora Enso, Teijin Frontier, Toray Industries (Toray), Voodin Blade Technology, and W L Gore & Associates (Gore).

Like all Textiles Intelligence publications, Technical Textiles Business Update is a reliable source of independently sourced business information, and it does not carry advertising.

Table of Contents

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENTS AND INNOVATIONS

  • A highly biodegradable polylactic acid polymer has been developed by Teijin Frontier
  • Automotive carpet systems which are easy to recycle have been launched by Autoneum
  • An ultra-high tensile strength carbon fibre has been developed by Hyosung Advanced Materials

BUSINESS UPDATE

  • An additive manufacturing process for producing cellulose based composites is being developed by researchers at the Deutsche Institute für Textil- und Faserforschung (DITFGerman Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research) and Arburg
  • Digital simulations are being used by the Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (ITWMFraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics) to optimise the melt blowing process for making infection control nonwovens
  • Technologies for producing meltblown and spunbonded filter media will be highlighted by equipment maker Oerlikon Nonwoven at Filtech in February 2023
  • Funding for a demonstration plant for producing bio-based acrylonitrile has been secured by Trillium Renewable Chemicals
  • RecyOuest has successfully started up a line supplied by Andritz for recycling materials derived from agricultural plastic waste nets
  • Sportswear manufacturer Texameri (Texcom) has invested in two power-frame stenters from Brückner Textile Technologies
  • Trützschler Card Clothing (TCC) is investing in the expansion of its facilities
  • Dissolving pulp sourced from textile waste is to be supplied by Renewcell to Lenzing Group for producing cellulosic fibres