Hollingsworth & Vose (H&V), a global manufacturer of advanced materials for filtration, battery separators and industrial applications based in East Walpole, Mass., has launched a successful start-up of NanoWave air filter media production in Hatzfeld, Germany. The new production capacity supports the European market demand for high-performance filter media. NanoWave, an extended surface area, multi-layer [...]

Kicking off the pilot phase of the TEKI project, Helsinki Metropolitan Area Reuse Centre Ltd. collected and pre-processed cotton textiles thrown away by consumers that could not be reused as clothing or used as material for recycled products. Photo: Joonas Lumpeinen Effective in 2016, the European Union ban on placing organic waste at [...]

Migrating away from outdated credit and debit cards that use magnetic stripes, U.S. credit card companies have set Oct. 1 as the date for the national adoption of cards embedded with microchips.

Migrating away from outdated credit and debit cards that use magnetic stripes, U.S. credit card companies have set Oct. 1 as the date for the national adoption of cards embedded with microchips. This technology, known as EMV (Europay, Mastercard, Visa), is a safer form of payment for buyers and sellers, as the cards are nearly [...]

NASA has launched its Breakthrough, Innovative and Game-changing (BIG) Idea Challenge, offering students the chance to participate in the agency’s journey to Mars. NASA’s Game Changing Development Program (GCD), managed by the agency’s Space Technology Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) are seeking innovative ideas for generating lift using [...]

The Lenzing Group is celebrating 50 years of the production and marketing of Lenzing Modal, the Austrian company’s ecological modal fiber that is made with beech wood, a replenishable raw material.

The color grouping of Phifer Inc.’s Graceful Verde Designed Fabrics collection includes soft, soothing verde and silvery taupe inspired by dried herbs and prairie grasses. Photo: Phifer Inc. The new Graceful Verde Designed Fabrics collection from Phifer Inc., Tuscaloosa, Ala., features cushion and sling outdoor furniture fabrics in sophisticated stripes and traditional florals [...]

The Lenzing Group is celebrating 50 years of the production and marketing of Lenzing Modal, the Austrian company’s ecological modal fiber that is made with beech wood, a replenishable raw material. Up to 95 percent of the chemicals used in the production process are recycled. Using the Kawabata Evaluation System, measurements of the softness factor [...]

More than 700,000 square feet of Burke's CSPE geomembranes were installed for the floating cover system on California's Upper Chiquita Reservoir. CSPE materials have delivered more than 25 years of service life in exposed conditions around the world. Photo: Layfield Environmental Systems Burke Industries Inc., San Jose, Calif., has formed exclusive partnerships with [...]

Applied DNA Sciences Inc. (APDN), a Stony Brook, N.Y.,-based provider of DNA-based anti-counterfeiting technology, supply chain and product authentication solutions, announced a partnership with Techmer PM, Clinton, Tenn. to apply DNA tagging to fiber applications. Techmer, a producer of value-added colors and additives for the plastics and fiber industries, is collaborating with APDN to apply [...]