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Smart thinking Imagine if a firefighter’s jacket could guide him through burning buildings, or if the bed linen in your hotel room was always at your favourite temperature. What if your pyjamas emitted light to treat an illness and let your doctors and nurses know how your therapy was progressing. Smart textiles, where electronics are…

Intelligent textiles were first designed in the late 1990s. The first prototypes mainly aimed to determine whether the health of the textile wearer was threatened. The applications were medical, sports, and military. Since protective clothing, and more generally, personal protection equipment, was designated with Europe as a lead market (market in which Europe has a…

First developed for printing on paper, today the inkjet printer has diverse applications. Two different technologies are mainly used in modern inkjet printing: Continuous inkjet printing and Drop-On-Demand (DOD) printing. In continuous inkjet printing, a high-pressure pump directs the liquid ink from a reservoir through a nozzle. A continuous stream of ink is created. Using…

Introduction WeVoTex is a supplier of textiles and garments for rental use. Customers are laundries and linen rental companies in the areas of healthcare, hospitality, and industry. Main product groups Bed linens Bath linens Table linens Safety garments (ambulance clothing) Hospital garments (patient gowns and textiles for operational theatre) Bed linens, bath linens, and table…

Many market players are convinced that there are good growth opportunities for professional textile care. This is well substantiated. An essential part of the total European workwear market is not yet served by professional textile care. This potential market is covered by domestic laundering and the single-use market. The question we have to ask is…

Textiles designed according to the Cradle to Cradle design philosophy are safe for human contact (including contact with skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract) and safe for contact with their environments. They do not “disappear” in a waste bin or incinerator after use, but rather the materials keep their value as resources and flow in…

Cradle to Cradle (C2C) is an innovation framework for designing products and systems that are explicitly beneficial to people, the environment, and society at large. It was developed by Dr. Michael Braungart and William McDonough in the 1990s and is based on a protocol pioneered by scientists at EPEA (Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency) in Hamburg,…

Textile Service is progressing positively With corporate and business services, textile care is an important partner to all industries throughout the world. Professional textile care is a prosperous, steadily growing economic sector. It consists of two segments: (1) the craftsmanship-marked business with private customers (B2C), mainly operated by dry cleaners and smaller laundries, and (2)…