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Gerber YuniquePLM® V8 ushers in a

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Eco-friendly sportswear textile from Taiwan's Eclat, ITRI

Taiwanese textile and garment manufacturer Eclat Company has produced a small volume of textile First scalable graphene yarns for wearable textiles
Textile Co with the Industrial Technology Research with the technology. Samples have been dispatched
Institute (ITRI) claims to have developed a new to clients for inspection. The technology would help A team of researchers led by Dr Nazmul Karim One hindrance to the advancement of wearable
technology to produce eco-friendly textiles for its clients comply with the goal of zero discharge of and Prof Sir Kostya Novoselov at The University of e-textiles has been the bulky components required
functional sportswear. The new single-bath supercrit- hazardous chemicals by 2020.” Manchester have developed a method to produce to power them. Previously it has also been difficult
ical fluid dyeing process for PET or blended elastic scalable graphene-based yarn. to incorporate these components without
textiles will offer wicking. No time frame has been announced for the commer- compromising the properties or comfort of the
cialization of the technology. According to ITRI, If the The process developed by the team based at the material, which has seen the rise of personal
As the products do not require drying, supercritical technology becomes popular, it would help the National Graphene Institute has the potential smart devices such as fitness watches.
carbon dioxide is used as the dyeing solvent instead nation’s textile and garment industry cut water use produce tonnes of conductive graphene-based
of water, thereby eliminating water consumption and by 11.5 million tonnes every year,. Chemical suppli- yarn, using existing textile machineries and without Dr Nazmul Karim, the other lead author and
pollution and optimizing textile manufacturing. ers Everlight Chemical Industrial Corp and Jintex adding to production costs. Knowledge Exchange Fellow (Graphene) from the
Corp might join the new technology’s supply chain National Graphene Institute, said: “High
Mr Hung Chen-hai, Eclat Chairman said, “The after commercialization. performance clothing is going through a
In addition to producing the yarn in large quantities, transformation currently, thanks to recent
they are washable, flexible, inexpensive and innovations in textiles. There has been growing
biodegradable. Such sensors could be integrated to interests from the textile community into utilizing
either a self-powered RFID or low-powered Bluetooth excellent and multifunctional properties of
graphene for smart and functional clothing
to send data wirelessly to mobile device.
applications.”
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