TEL AVIV, Israel — July 24, 2017 — Delta Galil Industries Ltd. the global manufacturer and marketer of branded and private label apparel products for men, women and children, today announced that its Real Cool Cotton^™ and Real Lasting Cotton^™ technologies have been selected to be featured at Cotton Incorporated’s booth during the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market. Please visit the Cotton Incorporated booth (#38037) between July 26-29 to learn about Delta Galil’s innovations specifically made from cotton fabrics — cutting edge evaporation solution, enhanced durability and usability, ‘new’ look after multiple washes, and design for ultimate comfort.

“Consumers today are active and versatile in their daily routines, and in turn demand the same multi-tasking efficiencies in their clothing as it relates to fit, comfort, look, feel and performance,” said Esti Maoz, CMO and Head of Innovation at Delta Galil. “Delta Galil’s innovations are changing the way cotton acts, converging the comfort of cotton with the durability, evaporation and absorption that meets the demands of today’s multi-tasking consumer.”

Real Cool Cotton

Real Cool Cotton (RCC), a historic breakthrough in natural fabrics, can evaporate significantly faster than the rate of standard cotton. This innovative technology increases the absorption capacity of the fabric, while also transferring moisture to the surface so it can evaporate more rapidly. The natural fabrics with improved qualities allow for professional cotton activewear and increased performance level of synthetics.

Real Lasting Cotton

Real Lasting Cotton (RLC) is a technology that preserves cotton fabrics with durability and every day wear. RLC not only keeps clothing looking and feeling brand new after multiple washes, creating a longer life span for clothes, but has a super smooth surface and amazing soft touch, adding pima-quality luxury to everyday garments. With two billion shirts produced around the world each year, requiring 2,700 liters of water along with chemicals and gases per shirt, this technology addresses significant environmental concerns.

By combining RCC and RLC technologies, Delta Galil is creating technologically advanced products that not only perform better, but also feel like new clothing for longer.

RCC is a registered patent in Europe, Canada and Israel; patent pending in the U.S.

Posted July 24, 2017

Source: Delta Galil Industries

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — July 21, 2017—With seven more laundries certified this month, UniFirst Corp. has widened its lead among multi-location uniform service companies in achieving the Hygienically Clean Food Safety designation, as 30 facilities now have reached this milestone. The July additions included the company’s first such achievements in Nevada, New York and Wisconsin after UniFirst plants were already certified in 16 states and the Canadian province of British Columbia.

This achievement reflects UniFirst’s commitment to best management practices (BMPs) in laundering as verified by third-party on-site inspection and their capability to produce hygienically clean textiles as quantified by ongoing microbial testing.

The certification confirms a laundry’s dedication to compliance and processing garments and other textile products using BMPs as described in its quality assurance documentation, the focal point for TRSA inspectors’ evaluation of critical control points that minimize risk.

This process eliminates subjectivity by focusing on outcomes and results that verify textiles cleaned in these facilities meet appropriate hygienically clean standards and BMPs for servicing animal processing, dairies, fruit/vegetable, bakeries, grain and other food and beverage industry segments.

UniFirst facilities certified in July are in Ontario, CA; Las Vegas, NV; Buffalo, NY; Amarillo, Austin and Houston, TX; and Wisconsin Rapids, WI. States with previously Hygienically Clean Food Safety certified UniFirst laundries (one each except where noted) are Calif. (2) Colo., Conn., Fla. (2), Ga., Mass., Md., N.C. (4), N.H. (2), N.J., Okla., Pa., S.C., Texas (5), Utah and Va.

The Hygienically Clean Food Safety protocol examines a laundry’s Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) practices, including its techniques for:

• Conducting hazard analysis;
• Determining CCPs, monitoring their control, correcting them if not under control;
• Validating and verifying HACCP system effectiveness; and
• Documenting and record-keeping to show ongoing conformance.

Inspection and re-inspection verify laundry practices including washing procedures (detergent formulas, temperature, disinfectant, pH, extraction), drying, garment inspection and transportation. Each certified laundry plant’s operational flowchart is evaluated, ensuring these procedures (as well as pickup, unloading and sorting of soiled items and sorting of clean laundry) are mapped. Employees’ use of personal protective equipment is documented.

Inspectors also evaluate practices relevant to handling and processing textile products used in food manufacturing/processing establishments for adherence to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) directives.

“More and more, we’re seeing our customers in food-related industries looking for third-party validation that our specialized Product Protection Process and our hygienically clean standards are consistent with HACCP and GFSI guidelines,” said Adam Soreff, director of marketing and communications at UniFirst, based near Boston. “Working with a Hygienically Clean Food Safety certified laundry helps reassure them that their managed uniform program is working in concert with their own food safety protocols to help them ensure food safety for consumers.”

Posted July 21, 2017

Source: TRSA

MONTREAL — July 21, 2017 – DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) announced that Michael Saltzberg, Ph.D., global business director of biomaterials, will present at the 2017 BIO World Congress on July 24, at 8:30 a.m. ET and Wednesday, July 26, at 11:45 a.m. ET. Saltzberg will join other leading biomaterial experts and sustainability officials on two separate panels, entitled “Sustainable Pathways to Furanics, FDCA, and Design of New Polymers” and “A Revolution in Biobased Products and Packaging.”

“I am pleased to see the ever-increasing demand from our customers for high-performance sustainable and affordable materials, for an endless variety of applications,” said Saltzberg. “I am confident that the widespread commercialization of the biomaterials market will not only meet the needs of our customers, but also exceed industry expectations.”

As the leader of DuPont’s global biomaterials programs and business development, Saltzberg heads up the development and commercialization of renewable biochemical and biomaterials based on plants rather than petroleum. One of DuPont’s core innovations in this space has been Bio-PDO™ propanediol — a bio-based monomer that serves as a building block in a variety of materials across a number of industries. DuPont™ Sorona® is one of those materials — a patented polymer that offers customers a sustainable solution for fibers and molded parts with better performance than petroleum-based materials. Sorona is used around the world in textiles, carpeting, and car parts.

“Bio-PDO was a major breakthrough for DuPont’s biomaterials work, showing customers that renewable materials can have better performance while being good for the bottom line,” said Saltzberg. “And I’m confident that the work we’re now doing on FDME is going to make a huge impact on the packaging industry.”

DuPont’s biomaterials division continues to accelerate the growth of the biomaterials industry. In early 2016, DuPont and Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) launched a breakthrough technology that produces a revolutionary biobased monomer, furan dicarboxylic methyl ester (FDME), from a renewable feedstock. The groundbreaking process has potential to expand the materials landscape with first applications in packaging. In December 2016, the companies were honored with the Platts Global Energy “Breakthrough Solution of the Year” award for their efforts to build the breakthrough platform technology FDME.

DuPont is a leader in developing renewably sourced biomaterials, using plant-based feedstocks to create high-performance biomaterials to reduce environmental impact with no compromise in performance or economics. DuPont continues to bring high-performance biomaterials that can compete head-to-head with popular polymers such as nylon and polyester, offering both performance and sustainability benefits at a competitive price. The company’s continued commitment to researching and developing innovative biomaterial solutions was recognized by leading market research firm Frost & Sullivan, selecting DuPont as the “Bio-based Materials Company of the Year” in March 2017.

The 2017 BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology is the world’s largest industrial biotechnology conference bringing together more than 1,000 global business leaders, investors, academics and policymakers in the biofuels, biobased products, renewable chemicals and biomass sectors. Industrial and environmental biotechnology is at the forefront of the biobased economy, generating good-paying jobs and making cleaner products and processes. Regarded as the ‘must-attend event’ in the industry, the conference will provide opportunities to gain expertise from industry executives and connect with a network of experts and colleagues from around the world.

BIO is the world’s largest trade association representing biotechnology companies, academic institutions, state biotechnology centers and related organizations across the United States and in more than 30 other nations. BIO members are involved in the research and development of innovative healthcare, agricultural, industrial and environmental biotechnology products. BIO also produces the BIO International Convention, the world’s largest gathering of the biotechnology industry, along with industry-leading investor and partnering meetings held around the world. BIOtechNOW is BIO’s blog chronicling “innovations transforming our world” and the BIO Newsletter is the organization’s bi-weekly email newsletter. Subscribe to the BIO Newsletter.

All programs at the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology are open to attendance by members of the media. Complimentary media registration is available to editors and reporters working full time for print, broadcast or web publications with valid press credentials.

DuPont Industrial Biosciences works with customers across a wide range of industries to make products and industrial processes more efficient and sustainable. Through a unique combination of agriculture, biotechnology, chemistry and material science capabilities, we advance market-driven, biobased solutions to meet the needs of a growing population, while protecting our environment for future generations.

Posted July 21, 2017

Source: DuPont Industrial Biosciences

GASTONIA, N.C. — July 19, 2017 — Creative Ticking is excited to announce the most comprehensive line of cooling technologies for its customers – KYLA™ and KYLA+™. Designed under the KYLA brand name, these fabrics offer the most variety in cooling levels and have been created by using the most up-to-date methods. Based on the Swedish term for “chill,” KYLA and KYLA+ offer unique solutions to give your customers the best cooling products on the market.

KYLA treatments are developed using Phase Change Materials (PCM) and can be applied in different levels depending on the desired cooling level. These PCM cooling treatments are applied in finishing and can be applied to the entire fabric or just the face where it is most needed. By implementing the evaporative cooling principle, KYLA actually changes phases as heat is reflected away from the body and results in cooling the skin to maintain the optimum temperature zone during sleep.

KYLA+ is a cooling technology that is yarn based. Using a yarn that is specifically designed to draw heat away from the body results in an exceptionally cool feel. This specially developed yarn is durable enough to withstand repeated washing without losing any cooling effects.

“Our new cooling products, KYLA and KYLA+, offer the industry two new options for creating the ultimate sleep experience,“ said Scott Frisch, vice president of business development at Creative Ticking. “KYLA and KYLA+ are part of Creative Ticking’s ongoing commitment to bring new innovation to the mattress industry.”

Creative Ticking has a talented design team that can incorporate KYLA+ yarn into existing styles or develop a fresh, new custom look for any of your ticking needs.

Posted July 21, 2017

Source: Creative Ticking/Creative Fabric Services is a division of Beverly Knits Inc.

BÖNNIGHEIM, Germany — July 17, 2017 — Modern textiles promise a great deal: some of them are strong performers when it comes to heat and moisture management. A huge amount of scientific research and development work lies behind this functionality. The Hohenstein Institute plays its part as a leading research institution in the field of clothing physiology for the textile industry.

Hohenstein has developed innovative technologies for defining and measuring specific thermophysiological comfort factors. Hohenstein works closely with companies that want to develop or optimise textiles with respect to these factors. The institute is able, on one hand, to work out the best possible product properties and, on the other, to verify marketing claims about cooling effect and moisture management.

Greater security in product development

In order to cope with the high demand from its customers for reliable methods of quantifying cooling performance, Hohenstein can now make use of a second WATson Heat Loss Tester. This has doubled its capacity to measure the actual physical cooling performance of sportswear and functional garments. WATson clearly shows the dynamic interaction between textiles and the human thermoregulation system, in varying climatic conditions and at different rates of sweating. The system analyses even the smallest changes in the cooling sensation that results from evaporation on the surface of the skin and accurately determines the cooling effect that the textile actually delivers by vaporising perspiration. The WATson technology only requires a textile sample measuring 20 x 25 cm to provide these data for product development, quality assurance and marketing purposes.

Results available within about 10 days

With its additional WATson device, the Hohenstein Institute has doubled its measuring capacity. The properties of all kinds of materials can be investigated flexibly and quickly. The results are supplied within about ten days, so that customer enquiries can be responded to promptly. In addition to carrying out standardized measurement processes, WATson can also be customized to meet specific customer requirements. These two factors — the rapid availability of the results and the customization of the measurements — offer manufacturers a way of measuring and optimizing performance at every stage of textile development. WATson also makes an important contribution to maintaining quality standards at the production control stage.

At the Hohenstein Institute, the cooling function of textile materials is tested using the WATson (WärmeAbgabeTester – Heat Loss Tester) device. © Hohenstein Group

Posted July 20, 2017

Source: Hohenstein Group

WILMINGTON, Del. — July 20, 2017 — DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products today announced participation in the 2017 Outdoor Retailer Summer Market showcasing many new innovations based on Susterra^® propanediol — a pure, bio-based, petroleum-free diol. Susterra delivers high performance in a variety of polyurethane applications, from footwear and waterproof films to artificial leather and coatings.

A hand-crafted double growler bag made by Ullr Coolers takes center stage on the DuPont Tate & Lyle Susterra brand stand. The bag is engineered for long-lasting performance using CORDURA^® EcoMade fabric laminated with a bio-based membrane incorporating Susterra propanediol. The use of both Cordura fabric and Susterra propanediol in the double growler bag is part of a key collaboration between INVISTA and DuPont Tate & Lyle.

“We are beer lovers. We are adventurous. We make products that we want to use and that last. When we determined that keeping beer cold while traveling was a necessity, we took it upon ourselves to figure out how to do it,” said Jason Schooler, co-owner of Ullr Coolers. “When DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products approached us with the ‘CORDURA + Susterra fabric’ innovation, it helped us meet this common summertime need. Using recycled and renewably sourced plant-based materials, while being highly durable, we’re creating something that we love to use and will last.”

“We are excited to once again showcase our commitment to eco-efficient textiles and smart innovation at the Outdoor Retailer Summer Market,” said Laurie Kronenberg, global marketing director for DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products. “Our involvement with heat-transfer fluids in the brewing industry along with the growler bag offering now means that DuPont Tate & Lyle can help cool beer in the breweries as well as on the go.”

Participation in this year’s Outdoor Retailer Summer Market is part of a yearlong DuPont Tate & Lyle recognition of a decade of offering petroleum-free, sustainable and renewably sourced materials. To learn how to win a growler bag, see the latest developments from the CORDURA + Susterra collaboration, or just to learn more about Susterra propanediol, visit our innovation wall at Outdoor Retailer booth 36037 or stop by the CORDURA brand booth 39212.

Durable coatings and waterproof, breathable membranes made with Susterra propanediol are manufactured through a proprietary fermentation process using plant-derived glucose instead of petroleum-based feedstocks. In addition to being renewably sourced, Susterra is manufactured using a sustainable process that produces 50 percent less greenhouse gas emissions and consumes 42 percent less nonrenewable energy than equivalent petroleum-based diols.

Posted July 20, 2017

Source:DuPont Tate & Lyle Bio Products

BOULDER, Colo. — July 20, 2017 — Outdoor industry sustainability professionals will gather in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, July 25, for the annual Outdoor Industry Association Sustainability Insights Conference. Launched three years ago to supplement the bi-annual OIA Sustainability Working Group meetings, the Sustainability Insights Conference is an opportunity to gain insight into the workings of the SWG and to learn about emerging trends around sustainable supply chain practices.

With the Higg Index adoption campaign in full swing, the theme of this year is “Assessment to Action.” The Higg Index, a tool with its origins in the outdoor industry, helps brands and factories of any size harmonize and communicate the environmental and social impacts of their supply chains. This is the second year that the industry-benchmarking results of those outdoor industry companies who have adopted the Higg Index will be presented at the conference.

“For the past ten years, the OIA Sustainability Working Group has worked collaboratively to identify and scale best practices in our shared supply chains,” said Beth Jensen, senior director of sustainable business innovation at OIA. “With increased adoption of the Higg Index, the Sustainability Insights Conference is a forum for outdoor industry sustainability professionals to learn what other companies and industries are doing to assess and improve their sustainability performance.”

The topics presented during the morning Sustainability Insights Conference have been selected to help provide guidance on how we might improve industry Higg Index scores. Participants will hear from sustainability professionals on packaging, chemical substitutions, responsible rubber sourcing and mitigating climate impacts through operational initiatives.

Adam Gendell of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition will be presenting the latest and greatest sustainable packaging trends and providing insight on where the industry can focus its efforts.  Zachary Angelini of Timberland, Evan Walker of the World Wildlife Fund and Samantha St. Pierre of the Rainforest Alliance will be presenting some of the challenges in the rubber supply chain, as well as projects underway to help increase transparency and mitigate deforestation.

A panel presentation, featuring VF Corp., Mountain Equipment Co-op and WRI Science Based Targets, will provide insight on significant operational initiatives that companies have implemented internally, including approaches to setting a price on carbon internally and how they went about it, as well as the challenges faced and how they were overcome.

A chemicals substitution panel will discuss the challenges of implementing new chemical technology from the point of view of a retailer, brand, mill (supplier) and chemical supplier.

The morning conference will be followed by an afternoon of Higg Index sessions, including a demonstration of the effective use of product tools and a presentation of outdoor industry performance along the various Higg Index indicators, from materials to packaging to end of use.

Posted July 20, 2017

Source: Outdoor Industry Association