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September 18, 2024 
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The Celanese Corporation, a global specialty materials and chemical company, and Under Armour, a global leader and innovator in athletic apparel and footwear, announced the development of Neolast™ fiber for performance stretch fabrics. The innovative material will offer a high-performing, more sustainable alternative to elastane spandex, and could provide opportunities to recycle performance stretch fabrics. The Celanese Neolast™ elastoester fiber process eliminates hazardous substances typically used to produce spandex/elastane stretch fabrics. With Under Armour as its partner, the launch of Neolast™ provides a new and exciting innovation for the textile/apparel industry, aligning their value chains to achieve mutual circular manufacturing goals!
Functional Fabric Fair 2023 The crowd at Functional Fabric Fair Fall 2023
The Functional Fabric Fair 2023
Fair's Fall '23 trade show in Portland completed a successful run with an increase in both exhibitor and attendance participation. This premier trade and sourcing event, powered by Performance Days, is the exclusive US trade show dedicated to high performance functional fabrics. The fall edition, held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, November 1-2, featured over 265 suppliers, marking the largest in its 4-year US history. The event showcased the latest in textile development trends for the outdoor market, and unveiled groundbreaking textile innovations for Autumn/Winter 2025.
HEIQ - XReflect, thinner, lighter, warmer
Teflon - EcoElite
eVent - Waterproof Technology
CORDURA Forever Knit Fabric
MMI Textiles
Activewear eliminates sweat with volcanic sand - Boulder, Colo.-based company 37.5® Technology has harnessed particles of volcanic minerals and activated carbon from coconuts to create thermoregulating fabrics used in athleisure wear.
MIT dataset helps predict biodegradable polyesters - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) used machine learning to analyze a library of 642 polyesters and polycarbonates and predict how they biodegrade, based on their chemical structure and results from tests using the bacteria P. lemoignei.
| Fast-growing Hoka shoe brand takes aim at Nike
Founded in Annecy, France, by two athletes in search of a shoe that made running feel more like flying, the brand was scooped up several years later by Deckers in 2013 and has been a high-flying addition to the portfolio ever since.
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| Functional Fabric Fair 2024 registration opens
Registration is now open for the fall edition of the Functional Fabric Fair, sponsored by PERFORMANCE DAYS®, scheduled to take place from November 19–21 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Ore.
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| SailGP, Mover to make world's first plastic-free technical sportswear
SailGP has partnered with Mover to create the world's first plastic-free technical sportswear, challenging the dominance of synthetic fibres in high-performance clothing.
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| German tech uses smart textiles for intensive sensory perception
Using engineering, neurotechnology, medicine and computer science, German researchers are developing a virtual encounter system using smart textiles for intensive sensory perception that can appeal to all the senses.
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| ATA, other textile industry associations announce formation of Alphabet Soup Collective
The associations’ desire to work more collaboratively on industry initiatives and events that are beneficial to all of their respective memberships.
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| Seams in clothing can capture body movement: Research
New research from the Universities of Bristol and Bath has introduced conductive threads in garment seams for electrical circuits that detect body movements via resistance changes.
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| New smart fibre can emit light, generate electricity: Journal Science
The fibre itself enables wireless visual–digital interactions without the need for extra chips or batteries on textiles, the abstract of the paper in the journal said.
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