VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bast Fibre Technologies (BFT), a manufacturer of specialty natural fibres for the global nonwoven industry, announces the acquisition of ...

Chinese scientists have developed fully flexible fiber chips that embed complete electronic circuits inside ...

Advance allows fibres to compute like chips or display information like transistors, paving the way for machine-wearable ...

Each year, more than 60 percent of textiles produced globally are made from blended fibers, yet less than 1 percent of these materials are effectively recycled. The issue stems from the source, of ...

Sustainable concept for wood-based textile fibres The 2022 Marcus Wallenberg Prize is awarded to Professor Ilkka Kilpeläinen, University of Helsinki and Professor Herbert Sixta, Aalto University, for ...

A research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has achieved a revolutionary breakthrough in smart materials, successfully developing soft magnetorheological textiles that can flexibly ...

Click here for a full listing of Edward Smith's publications and outputs. Chemical processing of bast fibre (flax and hemp) and developing analytical techniques in assessing fibre quality of both ...

The project, aimed at accelerating the shift to a circular future, will see used textiles collected by Salesianer Miettex that are not suitable for reuse passed on to ARA (Altstoff Recycling Austria ...

Panda Biotech's 500,000-square-foot facility in Wichita Falls, TX will be the first facility in the U.S. to cottonize hemp fiber on a commercial scale. Dallas-based Panda Biotech has selected Wichita ...