- Carbon fibres, which find numerous kinds of applications, have low specific gravity, exquisite mechanical properties and attractive performances features.

- Woven greenhouse shade nets in different colours and weaves prepared from polyethylene and polypropylene yarns have been found to be comparable in cost and performance with commercially available knitted shade nets.

- Conference on Automotive Textiles, CAT13 will be held in the first-class purpose-built conference facilities of the Georgia Tech Global Learning Centre in Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

- A growing landscape with huge potential – provides a unique overview of the global market for agrotextiles and other textile materials used in agriculture and fishing sectors.

- TecniTex Nonwovens Pvt Ltd, Bangalore has announced the launch of a new three day Geotextiles Training Workshop in collaboration with The Association of the INDA – USA and BTRA, Mumbai - Centre of Excellence for Geotextiles in India.

- In April, AATCC will honour Nicole Nichols Wilson, President and founder of Pure Filter Solutions (PFS), as the 2012 recipient of the Association’s Young Entrepreneur Award.

- A comprehensive new report, “Latin American Nonwoven Markets: Trends, Forecasts, and Analysis 2012 - 2017” is now available from INDA, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry.

- At this year's IDEA - that took place in Miami, USA, between April 23rd and 25th, Oerlikon Neumag presented its entire nonwoven manufacturing portfolio.

- In a major breakthrough, Trützschler Nonwovens, through its local partner A.T.E. Enterprises Pvt Ltd, finalised a prestigious order for universal needlepunch line with 'Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Nonwovens’ at DKTE.

- Adverse conditions in the water sports apparel market are leading to a rise in industry takeovers, according to Textiles Intelligence.

- Nonwovens producers now have access to the new technical centre at ANDRITZ Perfojet in Montbonnot, France.

- Sandwich composites are considered as essential structural materials in automobiles because of their high bending stiffness and lightweight.

- For work in cold stores, on steel works, a building site or in a laboratory, people depend on perfectly fitting gloves. They protect people's hands, their most important tools, from dangers in their daily working life. Therefore the Hohenstein Institute can now offer testing and certification of gloves.

- Ten years ago Rosink successfully installed its first Air Quad Web Splitting Unit, called RAQSU40 on to a Trützschler high production revolving flat card.

- Teijin Frontier Co Ltd, has developed a new polyester curtain fabric that traps double the amount of pollen as conventional polyester curtain fabric, helping to minimise pollen levels indoors.

- A new version of Fibertect®, a nonwoven decontamination wipe created by researchers at Texas Tech University, has proven itself more viable at cleaning up a nerve chemical surrogate than the decontamination substance currently used by the US Department of Defense (DoD), which is currently being phased out.

- Domotex, the world's most important trade fair for floor coverings, again attracted industry professionals to Hanover/Germany. Volkmann’s trade fair team provided information on the product line, its latest technological developments, which are also setting standards in the energy sector.

- World demand for flooring and carpets is expected to rise 4.9 per cent annually to 18.6 billion square metres in 2016.

- Demand for nonwovens in the US is forecast to rise 5.7 per cent per year to $7.1 billion in 2016, benefiting from an acceleration in area demand and an increase in the average price that stems in part from a shift in the product mix toward higher value nonwovens.

- Formaldehyde related requirements are becoming greater challenges for the textile industry all the time, and formaldehyde constitutes one of the classes of chemicals in textile production and processing which are taken into consideration while formulating eco-norms for the issuance of eco labels.