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December 2016
Focus on fire resistant textiles and fibre research and technologies

International and Australian standards are changing to address workplace and community need for high performance protective clothing and other products to keep the the community, environment and our defence forces, fire fighters and other emergency services personnel safe. Innovation in fibres and textiles, finishes, coatings and garment and product assembly provide solutions to increase the […]

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Commercialisation of Polyacrylate fibre ...

Polyacrylate (PCA), the chemical class of acrylate polymers derived from the polymerisation of acrylic acid esters and salts, was developed ...

CSIRO carbon fibre breakthrough ...

CSIRO scientists have produced Australia’s first entirely home-grown carbon fibre, paving the way for Australian industry to mass-produce the next ...

TTNA joins Asia Pacific ...

Australia’s TTNA is one of seven nonwoven industry bodies from the Asia Pacific region brought together by the China Nonwovens ...

TTNA hosts Smart and ...

Smart and intelligent textiles and fibres are engineered to sense, monitor, track, measure, communicate, transform, conduct, protect, react, dispense and ...

Greg LeMond, cycling great, ...

American Greg LeMond is an innovator and businessman who just happened to win the world’s most famous bike race — ...

Wet wipes blockages – ...

A crane removes wet wipes from a Launceston sewer…see this link. It’s all about the ‘P’ principle  TasWater is urging ...

The return of Melded ...

A heartening confidence in manufacturing textiles in Australia is good reason for the owners of Melded Products to reinvest and ...

Victorian textile manufacturing champions ...

TTNA congratulates the directors and staff of Textor Technologies and Merino & Jumbuck for being finalists in the 2017 Victorian ...

Award for Australian scientists ...

A research team from Deakin University’s Institute for Frontier Materials (IFM) in Geelong Victoria is among five winners of H&M ...

EU’s $16 m research ...

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme has invested €11 million (AUD $16 million) in RESYNTEX,  a research project to create ...

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