PolyOne Corporation continues to advance its fiber colorant technology, enabling textile manufacturers, converters and brands to increase sustainability, operational efficiencies, and market response rates to drive their success in the global textile industry. PolyOne’s ColorMatrix™ Fiber Colorant Solutions combine colorants and specialized melt spinning equipment to provide an adaptive, innovative system for coloring polyester fiber. […]
Smithers Pira, is pleased to announce that the 2018 Digital Textile Printing Conference will take place June 7-8, in Chicago. Concluding this year’s Digital Print Week, Digital Textile Printing will focus on Applications and Market Drivers Within Digital Textile Printing, exploring topics such as innovations and technical advances in digital print for textiles, the future of digital […]
USTER, Switzerland — March 1, 2018 — There is one essential requirement for any yarn, whether staple or filament: it must be strong enough to cope with the rigors of downstream processes, without causing production stoppages. High-speed weaving and knitting put yarns under powerful stresses and strains, so they need to meet the strength and […]
The fashion industry has an enormous impact on our environment. Biodegradable textiles are designed to address the problem – these shoes made from kelp are one example. Would you wear sneakers made from kelp? What if they looked as stylish as any other shoe, and could help reduce the massive impact of the textile industry? […]