The Textile magazine - July 2020

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The July 2020 edition of The Textile Magazine has Heiq on the cover. The edition focuses on masks & PPEs and antimicrobial finishes. The issue also covers main companies like Loyal Textiles, Intertek, RSWM, Nandan Terry and so on. Excellent edition

Loyal Textile Mills launches the world's first reusable PPE with triple viral shield technology

Loyal Textile Mills Limited has launched Viral Shield a Line of COVID-19 Anti-Viral, Reusable Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Masks and Protective Fashion Wear Range. The series has been launched in collaboration with Reliance Industries India and HeiQ from Switzerland. This PPE emerges as the World’s first Reusable PPE that has passed the Viral Penetration Test, Synthetic Blood penetration test and the SBPR test.

5 mins

INTERTEK expands personal protective equipment services and COVID-19 solutions with N95 respirator precertification testing

Intertek, a Total Quality Assurance provider to industries worldwide, announces the expansion of its personal protective equipment services to include precertification testing of N95 respirators to requirements set by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH).

1 min

In conversation with HeiQ founders, Carlo Centonze and Dr. Murray Height

“Antimicrobial fabric treatments will be a big part of our future”

10 mins

Morarjee introduces ViroShield protective fabrics

Morarjee Textiles Ltd, a vertically integrated textile company manufacturing high-end products in prints, dyed and yarn dyed fabrics in a variety of substrates, has launched ViroShield range of protective finishes in collaboration with Australia-based Health Guard Corporation Pvt Ltd.

1 min

RSWM inks strategic partnership with HeiQ to offer anti-COVID fabric under Mayur brand

Meeting the safety concerns of consumers and offering them a viable and secure solution against COVID-19, India’s leading textile manufacturer RSWM Ltd. has announced its latest innovation with the launch of anti-viral fabric range ‘ViroSecure’. The new range has been launched through a strategic technology partnership with HeiQ* that lends its antiviral Viroblock** technology to formulate a protective coating on the fabric to offer 99.99% protection against SARS-CoV-2 in just 30 minutes. With ViroSecure, RSWM is targeting 20 percent of sales in FY 2020-21.

3 mins

Nandan Terry introduces anti-viral and anti-bacterial towel collections

Nandan Terry Private Limited has introduced a new range of protective Terry Towels that are tested to be anti-bacterial and anti-virus, thereby, preventing growth of microbes onto the towel surface.

1 min

Survey: More than half of sustainability leaders believe that consumer demand for environmental action has grown during COVID-19, and many think they may lose customers if they don't meet commitments

Efforts shift to traceability within the supply chain, as brands in North America work to keep sustainability initiatives afloat during pandemic

3 mins

New study confirms WOOL's flame resistance makes it suitable for the military and fire fighters

A new textile laboratory study has assessed the fire resistance of the fabrics used in commercial base-layer garments for military and first responder personnel, such as firefighters, and concluded that the wool-rich fabrics offer the greatest skin protection, while the 100% synthetic fabrics performed the worst due to their propensity to melt and damage the skin.

2 mins

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The Textile Magazine is India's only corporate news magazine on the textile industry, published since 1959. The entire spectrum of the textile industry from fiber to garmenting is covered.