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NatureWorks opens Thailand Ingeo Plant, expanding global PLA supply for packaging and fibres

Fibres
The 75,000-tonne Nakhon Sawan facility gives NatureWorks a second integrated production base and strengthens Asia’s role in renewable polymer...

Pincroft and Toray join forces to strengthen UK defence textile supply

Technical Textiles
The collaboration positions two established UK technical-textile producers as domestic suppliers for printed woven fabrics used in military and...

Mahlo puts process control at the centre of technical textiles at Techtextil 2026

Technical Textiles
For technical-textile producers, quality is increasingly defined by real-time control of alignment, coating weight, moisture, temperature and basis weight—not...

Strataglass launches Latitude Marine Fabric for durable boat enclosures

Technical Textiles
The new American-made vinyl marine textile targets fabricators, boat builders and boat owners seeking softer handling, stronger weather resistance...

RE&UP and ISKO Pro bring textile-to-textile recycling into workwear at Techtextil 2026

Technical Textiles
The Frankfurt showcase matters because it tests circular fibres in one of the industry’s toughest end uses: high-performance workwear. RE&UP...

HIGHTEX 2026 positions Istanbul at the centre of technical textiles and nonwovens

Events
As technical textiles and nonwovens continue to expand across healthcare, construction, filtration and mobility, HIGHTEX is pitching itself as...

Italian Textile Machinery heads to Techtextil with technical-textile focus despite weaker order cycle

Machinery
Italy’s machinery makers are using Frankfurt to reinforce a familiar competitive message: in technical textiles, customization, finishing expertise and...

BGMEA pushes Turkey partnership as Bangladesh seeks new growth channels in apparel

Trade
The proposed Ankara mission shows Bangladesh’s garment industry is looking beyond cost competitiveness alone, toward market diversification, man-made fibres,...

RUDOLF brings functional finishing, thermoregulation and odor control to Techtextil 2026

Dyeing & Finishing
The German specialty chemicals group is using Frankfurt to show how textile auxiliaries are moving beyond basic finishing into...

AAFA issues heat-stress guide as extreme heat becomes a supply-chain risk

Business
The new guidance signals that heat stress is no longer just a factory-floor welfare issue. It is becoming a...

Roaches brings objectivity to fabric handle with Sentire launch at Techtextil

Technical Textiles
The new system targets one of technical textiles’ most persistent blind spots: translating fabric feel into measurable, comparable data...

Lenzing expands protective wear push with three-tier fiber platform for PPE

Fibres
The Austrian fiber producer is moving beyond a single-product flame-resistance offer and toward a broader protective-wear architecture spanning high-risk,...

Albany Engineered Composites wins safety recognition as aerospace composite production scales up

Composites
The award matters because in advanced composites, safety discipline is not just an EHS issue; it is part of...

Smart clothing moves closer to healthcare, but the hard work is still in accuracy, washability and trust

Innovation
Textile-based sensors are becoming more capable of long-duration health monitoring, yet the gap between promising prototypes and routine medical...

Slack & Parr wins UK order for India carbon fibre line serving aerospace and defence

Technical Textiles
The contract underlines how specialist textile-process equipment suppliers are positioning themselves inside the build-out of regional carbon fibre supply...

iNTERSPARE brings retrofit, automation and finishing upgrades to Techtextil 2026

Machinery
The company is using Frankfurt to argue that modernization of installed finishing machinery can be a faster and more...

Sedo Treepoint uses Techtextil to position digital control as a core tool for technical textiles

Events
The company’s message for Frankfurt is that automation, MES and integrated data environments are becoming essential infrastructure for managing...

TU Dresden’s ITM uses Techtextil to push textile engineering beyond materials and into systems

Technical Textiles
The institute’s 2026 showcase in Frankfurt underlines how textile innovation is increasingly being built at the intersection of fibres,...

Smart Textile Electrodes Turn Dye Wastewater Into a Treatment-and-Energy Opportunity

Technical Textiles
IIT Delhi researchers have shown that flexible textile electrodes made from recycled PET, carbon nanotubes and polyaniline can remove...

DuPont targets heat-strain problem with more breathable chemical coverall

Technical Textiles
The new Tyvek APX 400 shows how protective clothing is being redesigned around a harder industrial reality: safety gear...
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