When Ronna Chao returned to her family’s yarn spinning business in 2010 after stints at Goldman Sachs and Tommy Hilfiger, Hong Kong was spewing out about 234 tonnes of textile waste every day, most of ...

Yarn spinning dynamics and fibre arrangement form the cornerstone of modern textile engineering, underpinning both the quality of yarn and its performance in downstream manufacturing. An understanding ...

The new Novibra spindle eNASA reduces a spinning machine’s power consumption by 2% to 4% compared to conventional spindles.

Carbon nanotubes weave their way into a range of imaginative macroscopic applications. The creation of continuous yarns made out of carbon nanotubes would enable macroscopic nanotube devices and ...

CHARLOTTE — A machine caught fire at an apparel manufacturing facility in Salisbury caught fire Sunday morning. South Salisbury Fire Department said they went to a Gildan Yarns plant on Chamandy Drive ...

A researcher powers an array of light-emitting diodes by rubbing the triboelectric textile. Credit: Junyi Zhai and Zhong Lin Wang A researcher powers an array of light-emitting diodes by rubbing the ...

The spiral is pervasive throughout the universe – from the smallest DNA molecule to ferns and sunflowers, and from fingerprints to galaxies themselves. In science the ubiquity of this structure is ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. ­When making clothes before the 19th century, one important tool was the spinning wheel. The ...