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Functional Clothing

Curtain-Raiser / Performance Days

15 March 2024

6 minutes

The aim of the semi-annual Performance Days fair in Munich is to give leading and innovative textile manufacturers, suppliers and service providers the opportunity to present their functional fabrics, membranes plus treatments, laminates, paddings, finishes, and accessories such as yarns, tapes, prints, buttons and zippers.

Functional Fabrics: Brands Now Differentiating Through Innovative Materials and Technologies

The first event created especially for functional fabrics for sports, fashion and work clothing, the two-day Performance Days fair in Munich is all set to open on 20 March. texfash.com in conversation with Chief Executive Officer Marco Weichert.

Subir Ghosh

Interview

Functional Clothing / Anti-mosquito

7 June 2023

Mosquito-borne diseases cause immense suffering for humans. Roughly 390 million people are infected each year with dengue, and hundreds of thousands more are affected by Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever. Common types of mosquito-borne diseases include malaria, dengue, West Nile virus, chikungunya, yellow fever and Zika.

US Entomologists Design Fabric to Block Mosquito Bites

Designing clothing to mechanically block a mosquito bite is tough engineering and entomologists at Auburn University have crafted just that unique interlock knit that can disarm arthropods including the buzzing mosquito by preventing its fascicle, a repertoire of six serrated blades, microneedles, and a bevelled needle, from piercing and drawing blood.

Staff Writer

Functional Fabrics / Funding Round

5 June 2023

2 minutes

brrr°’s patented technology combines natural cooling minerals, active wicking and rapid drying to instantly and continuously draw heat and moisture away from the skin.

Cotton Yarn Innovator brrr° Completes $6.3 million Capital Round with Designer David Chu

US-based performance ingredient tech enterprise brrr° has received a strategic investment $6.3 million from the Nautica Founder-Designer David Chu.

Staff Writer

Functional Clothing / Hydration

29 May 2023

The monitoring of basic parameters such as hydration must be made available to everyone in order to improve the conditions to make physical exercise a universal activity that is beneficial to health.

HydraSport Project Focuses on Hydration and Sweat Analysis for Smart Low-Cost Fabrics

A research project led by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya is looking to incorporate low-cost, flexible technology into everyday clothing, thereby enabling health to be measured in an unassisted and non-invasive manner.

Staff Writer

Functional Textiles / FTC 2023

25 February 2023

2 minutes

The just concluded third edition of the Functional Textiles & Clothing (FTC) Conference in New Delhi helped create an understanding of the various aspects of functional and technical textiles and showed the way towards modernisation of the industry, making it relevant to current times while gauging the challenges faced due to changing ecology, consumer trends, and the like.

Technology and Design Come Together to Develop Functional Products that Impact People's Lives

The third edition of the Functional Textiles & Clothing (FTC) Conference in New Delhi concluded on a high as students and faculty from about 80 global universities focused on various aspects of the textile and clothing industry and the technological advancements at play along with its impact on the environment.

Special Correspondent

Science Speak / Trends & Future

11 February 2023

6 minutes

Both technology-forward and market-back innovations will be coming up. It is likely that in the sportswear segment user-driven innovations will be more prevalent while in protective clothing segment it’s more R&D driven, e.g. for defence, protection from extreme weather and hazardous man-made conditions.

Both Technological Innovations and Consumer Demand Will Be Key

With emerging risks, the demands for functionality and performance from clothing will evolve continuously and spontaneously, and both technology-forward and market-back innovations will come up. Besides, the requirements of consumers are getting more and more diversified. All these issues will drive advances in R&D. Three renowned academicians at the ongoing International Conference on Functional Textiles and Clothing in New Delhi discuss at length.

Richa Bansal

Interview

Functional Textiles / FTC 2023

10 February 2023

4 minutes

Textiles and Clothing Get More Functional: Industry Readies to Drive on Performance and Innovation

As the third edition of the International Conference on Functional Clothing and Textiles gets under way in New Delhi today, texfash.com analyses the operating environment. It's a look beyond numbers.

Subir Ghosh

Report

Curtain-Raiser / FTC 2023

9 February 2023

4 minutes

The third edition of the International Conference on Functional Clothing and Textiles that gets under way at IIT Delhi on 10 February, will bring together government agencies, national and international researchers and students as well as companies on a common platform.

International Conference on Functional Clothing and Textiles Gets Under Way Tomorrow

The third edition of the International Conference on Functional Clothing and Textiles that gets under way on 10 February at New Delhi will be a confluence of some of the best research and development minds working to make fashion smart and user-friendly.

Staff Writer

Report

PRESS RELEASE / Launch

22 March 2022

2 minutes

Twenty-six styles of Tecnica's high-performance ski boots are powered by CELLIANT infrared technology.

Skiers Have Celliant on Their Side

LOS ANGELES, March 22: Tecnica ski boot products have powered Olympians, so it should be no surprise that 26 styles of their high-performance ski boots are powered by CELLIANT® technology. These include designs in the Mach1, Mach Sport and Cochise product lines, which have CELLIANT infrared technology in the boots' liners. Both Tecnica, a leader...