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• Future Textiles scoops SPARK Award

  03/07/08
  Aidan Tracey, founder of Future Textiles, is one of nine companies who have won SPARK Awards.... more>>

• Value of Nano-enabled Products to Reach USD166.6 billion in 2008

  25/06/08
  Cientifica releases the Nanotechnology Opportunity Report (NOR)... more>>

• DEFRA announce funded Clothing Roadmap Projects

  12/06/08
  Defra, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, have announced an Expression of Interest for roadmap projects... more>>

• New grants to combat toxic chemicals

  12/06/08
  Cornell University fibre scientist works with US Government to create fabrics to render toxic chemicals harmless.... more>>

• Innovation Platform - Components and Materials for Low Impact Buildings

  12/06/08
  Details about this Technology Strategy Board initiative are now available... more>>

• 2nd Sustainable Clothing Roadmap Stakeholder Meeting

  11/06/08
  The summary report of the 2nd Sustainable Clothing Roadmap Stakeholder meeting on 31st March 2008 is now available.... more>>

• PhD Studentship - Advanced Composite Materials

  11/06/08
  The School of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering at the University of Nottingham, is seeking a suitable PhD candidate to join it's Polymer Composites Research Group... more>>

• Innovation for Innovation (i4i)

  11/06/08
  The Innovation for Innovation (i4i) programme of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is a direct response to the need to speed up the innovation process.... more>>

• Standards for Medical Materials Workshop

  09/06/08
  The presentations from the Standards for Medical Workshop held on June 5th are now available to download .. more>>

• Health Technologies KTN News

  07/05/08
  Industry Interchange Programme: Short term exchange of researchers between the science base and industry.. more>>

• Chris Carr of Manchester University receives award

  28/04/08
  Professor Chris Carr, School of Materials at Manchester University, has been elected as a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Dyers and has been awarded The Worshipful Company of Weavers Silver Medal... more>>

• Textiles and Paper at Manchester Helps Tanzania Textiles

  25/04/08
  The School of Materials, Textiles and Paper, at Manchester University, will be supporting the initiatives of the Gatsby Charitable Foundation in establishing a programme to develop the infrastructure of the Tanzanian Textiles industry... more>>

• Protective Textiles

  25/04/08
  This market comprises clothing and other textile-based systems accessories and related services whose main function is to protect the user. .. more>>

• Manchester Textiles Goes Nanofibre!

  25/04/08
  Textiles and Paper, within the School of Materials at the University of Manchester, with the support of The Clothworkers' Livery Company, are investing in a new nanofibre production facility to create the 'technology pipeline' to supply their world leading weaving and knitting facilities with 'raw' material to engineer the next generation of Technical Textiles... more>>

• European agency urges pre-registration of REACH chemicals

  24/04/08
  The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), the operating body for the EU's new Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and restriction of Chemicals (REACH) legislation, has called for companies to prepare for the pre-registration of chemicals, which will happen between 1 June and 1 December 2008... more>>

• EPSRC Industrial CASE Awards 2008 Call for Applications

  21/04/08
  The Materials KTN is pleased to announce that the EPSRC has allocated to it four Industrial CASE Studentships to award, for 2008. .. more>>

• Toray Textiles Healthcare

  17/04/08
  Toray Textiles Healthcare brand See it Safe hits the NHS to assist in the fight against MRSA.. more>>