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September 26, 2017 
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Anticipation is building as international textile professionals plan to exhibit and attend the IFAI Expo 2017, scheduled for September 26-29, 2017, at the Earnest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans! This year’s host city will provide show attendees a place to enjoy great jazz and blues music, gourmet food, historic landmarks, and much more! The “Big Easy”, as New Orleans is affectionately known, because of its gentle, slow and easy-going lifestyle, will be energized with the excitement of IFAI Expo 2017. This year’s Expo provides the opportunity to see the latest advanced textile products; learn from textile experts; and, meet industry leaders, suppliers and manufacturers that help drive the specialty fabrics market.
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The Company has achieved a series of scientific breakthroughs in the area of spider silk technology with implications for the global textile industry.
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| Is the Old Sourcing Model Dead?
Low-cost labour country sourcing continues to dominate fashion manufacturing but a move toward digitisation and automation is shifting the entire paradigm.
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| No batteries required: Energy-harvesting yarns generate electricity
An international research team at The University of Texas at Dallas and Hanyang University in South Korea has developed high-tech yarns that generate electricity when stretched or twisted.
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| Dystar Group Releases New Sustainability Report
As a trusted provider of colorants, auxiliaries and sustainability services, DyStar is strategically placed – in the middle of the value chain – to support textile producers, brands and retailers.
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| E-skin is a wearable VR controller that looks and feels just like a regular shirt
E-skin is a shirt with sensors that has the ability to track your moves and send inputs to a computer using the movements of your body. Data from the shirt is sent through an attached e-skin Hub over Bluetooth.
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