 | July 16 2010 
The Role of Cotton in the Deepwater Horizon Clean-Up
It is important to state at the outset that only raw cotton and raw cotton ginning byproducts (CGB) are viable for both oil absorption and floatation.
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 | July 09 2010
Indian textiles industry flirts with special fabrics
From denim diapers and rugged fire-proof jeans to flowing eco-friendly and anti-bacterial material in bright hues, the Indian textile industry is experimenting with technical fabrics in a big way.
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 | June 09 2010
Conference examines new technical textiles markets
The global textile industry will meet in Manchester, UK, to discuss the most exciting new markets for technical and industrial textiles next week.
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 | June 07 2010
Ordinary T-shirts could become body armor
A simple cotton T-shirt may one day be converted into tougher, more comfortable body armor for soldiers or police officers.
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 | April 06 2010
New Technique Coverts Cotton T-Shirts into Boron Carbide Body Armor
Researchers at the University of South Carolina, collaborating with others from China and Switzerland, drastically increased the toughness of a T-shirt by combining the carbon in the shirt's cotton with boron - the third hardest material on earth.
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 | March 31 2010
USA: Nonwovens an important, growing niche in economy
An expert on nonwoven textiles like those made at Wayneboro’s Polymer Group Inc. plant said the industry is growing domestically at 5 to 6 percent a year, faster than the growth rate of America’s gross domestic product.
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 | March 30 2010
INDIA: Technical Textiles - Emerging Opportunity
There is certainly opportunity in the technical textiles sector in India. However, greater understanding and proper investments are necessary to enable growth. Technology utilization and dissemination of techno-commercial information are needed to have viable growth.
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 | March 11 2010
Fashion: The land of cotton is going nanotech
A team at Cornell University has developed a technique to permanently coat cotton fibers with electrically conductive nanoparticles. The result makes cotton electronically conductive, while continuing to be lightweight, flexible, and comfortable.
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January 27 2010 Fabric batteries for 'wearable electronics'
September 29 2009 Soon, clothes that can send and receive messages through 'textile antennas'
September 29 2009 The fashion of the future
September 01 2009 INDIA: Technical textile consumptions to cross Rs 2,200 cr by 2013
April 13 2009 New nonwovens lab for TIEHH
April 06 2009 TEXAS TECH UNVEILS NEW $1.5 MILLION NONWOVENS LABORATORY
March 20 2009 Pulling out all the stops for Techtextil
March 03 2009 5th Annual Smart Fabrics proves to be the top event of industry
December 16 2008 Nanotechnology-based smart yarn for soldiers
December 03 2008 New fabric can wipe away toxic chemicals
November 18 2008 Carbon-Nanotube Thread
November 12 2008 "Intelligent" clothes store makes full use of RFID
October 16 2008 Mass market for filter fabrics
October 09 2008 Nonwoven: Global report predicts growth
October 02 2008 Nanotechnology deployed in textiles to fight global MRSA bug
July 31 2008 Colossal carbon nanotubes could replace cotton fibers for high-tech clothing
July 30 2008 Sun protection you can wear
July 29 2008 The first quarter of 2008 of global technical textile sector
July 29 2008 Cotton Insulation
July 23 2008 India's technical textiles sector set to boom
