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Determining relevance

A process for choosing standards and testing for your products. Standard test methods characterize goods and services so that communication between buyers and sellers is facilitated across the global marketplace. Manufacturers may be motivated to test their products according to published standards to communicate their quality or function, to enable specific advertising claims to be [...]

By |2015-11-01T00:00:29-05:00November 1, 2015|

Thriving on innovation

Success in medical and biomedical textiles markets requires established expertise and a long-term commitment. If you want to talk about today’s medical textiles markets, it’s necessary to go beyond the end product—and even the finished textile—and look at what goes into making that textile. And as much as highly engineered materials are now well established, [...]

By |2015-10-01T00:00:44-05:00October 1, 2015|

Vital signs

Imperial College and Royal College of Art students Lucy Jung, Elena Dieckmann, Ming Kong and Daniel Garrett designed the BRUISE suit to aid paraplegic athletes. The garment is being shown at the Smarter. Faster. Tougher. sportswear exhibition at the DX Museum, Toronto, Ont., Canada, until Oct. 12, 2015. Photos: Marie O’Mahony The medical [...]

By |2015-10-01T00:00:33-05:00October 1, 2015|

What to wear to Mars

This year NASA recognizes 50 years of spacesuit development. On June 3, 1965, astronaut Ed White performed the first American spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission. Photo: NASA Requirements for space garments share similarities with those worn on Earth. For human space missions beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO), the logistical burden is at least [...]

By |2015-09-01T00:00:03-05:00September 1, 2015|

Keeping it cool in space

A full mission dress rehearsal was held for NASA’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) in May 2015 at the U.S. Navy Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) in Kauai, Hawaii. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls Specialized textiles play an important role in thermal control for an evolving aerospace marketplace. Where there are flights, space missions and satellites, [...]

By |2015-08-01T00:00:34-05:00August 1, 2015|

Not too hot, not too cold

Clad in high-performance thermal clothing, Erik Weihenmayer crests the Continental Divide in the Colorado Rockies. “Your gear is so important. You are pretty comfortable if you’re in the right gear, layered up and moving,” he says. Weihenmayer will be the keynote speaker Oct. 8 at IFAI Expo in Anaheim, Calif. Photo: Skyler Williams. [...]

By |2015-08-01T00:00:13-05:00August 1, 2015|

A fashion statement in 4-D

Nothing to wear? What if you could digitally print a dress, put it on and go? That possibility is not so far-fetched with a process created by Nervous System, an innovative design studio that describes itself as working at the intersection of science, art and technology. The company’s Kinematics Dress is made of thousands of [...]

By |2015-07-01T00:00:49-05:00July 1, 2015|

Healthy prospects

Awaiting FDA approval in the United States, the BioArmour™ Blood Pressure Cuff Shield is a disposable, antimicrobial hygienic barrier that attaches to a blood pressure cuff to prevent direct contact of the patient’s skin with the cuff itself.Photo: Biovation LLC Nonwoven PLA could thrive in the health care market. PLA, or polylactic acid, [...]

By |2015-07-01T00:00:44-05:00July 1, 2015|

Narrow fabrics industrial evolution

AEC Narrow Fabrics’ wire harnesses group and protect electrical wire and signal assemblies for the automotive, aerospace and electronics industries. Photo: AEC Narrow Fabrics Narrow fabrics are matching the high-performance needs of safety, medical and military markets with their own technological advances. Say “narrow fabric” and the average consumer may think of ribbon [...]

By |2017-02-20T13:25:25-06:00July 1, 2015|

Smaller, “smarter” and versatile

Bally Ribbon Mills has developed a quad-axial loom that allows for the insertion of yarn at 0, 90, +45 and -45 degrees. Photo: Bally Ribbon Mills Multidimensional narrow fabrics offer new ways to develop structures in medical and biomedical applications. A narrow fabric is loosely defined as being any non-elastic woven textile having [...]

By |2015-07-01T00:00:08-05:00July 1, 2015|
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