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AgResearch announces world-first technology to detect fake designer garments

  15 September 2008, Hamilton, New Zealand - Take two identical garments – both attributed to the same designer. It is impossible to distinguish between the two articles. The same fabric was used, the same colour, the same pattern. Even the label looks the same… However one is rea ...
   
   

Fastskin suits improve performance in swimmers

  13 August 2008, USA - Fastskin suits significantly reduced drag, decreased energy cost and increased distance per stroke in competitive swimmers, according to a study published recently in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, the official scientific journal of the American College ...
   
   

Wholegarments in Space

  20 June 2008, Wakayama, Japan – Shima Seiki Mfg. Ltd has participated in collaborative research on clothing for use in spacecraft using its Wholegarment knitting technology. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency implemented the Open Lab system in June 2004 as a scheme to realize a mechani ...
   
   

P2i Ltd attracts investment from Unilever Ventures

  Funding to accelerate commercial roll-out of revolutionary ion-mask super-hydrophobic treatment 14 April 2008, Oxford, UK - ion-mask, the revolutionary super-hydrophobic treatment from P2i Ltd, has attracted substantial investment from Unilever Ventures. The additional funding will allow P2i to ...
   
   

Knitted electro-textiles

  Dr Tilak Dias is Senior Lecturer in Knitting Technology at the University of Manchester’s School of Materials. Through Engineered Fibre Structures Ltd, he consults to industry on a broad range of textiles based subjects, including electro-textiles. The following is a synopsis of his curriculum ...
   
   

Tanatex Chemicals introduces Easy Stretch

  November 2007 – Ede, Netherlands - TANATEX Chemicals proudly presents their new and innovative finish for apparel and fashion: Easy Stretch. Easy Stretch is a concept finish and is basically applicable on both knits and fabric and is more or less fibre-independent. As the name already imp ...
   
 
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