Dr. Andrew Dent Offers Insights on Materials That Matter
Dr. Andrew Dent, executive vice president of Material Bank and Material Connexion, details the matters that will matter.
Inifinited Fiber
Composition: Cellulosic viscose yarns from paper waste.
Cottonlike textiles offer the processability of synthetic yarns with the renewable raw materials and the great hand of a natural. This version uses cleaner chemistry and does not deplete our wood resources, using both pre- and post-consumer recycled paper instead.
Opt Industries
Composition: Customer’s own material.
The digital manufacturing system can make featherlike structures to order on flexible, fabriclike surfaces by taking 3-D printing to the next level of complexity and versatility, creating large-format fabrics, furs, feathers, and foams on a micro scale.
NORR from OSM Shield
Composition: Fluoropolymer-free coating.
Offering stain and water resistance while still enabling good breathability, this PFOA-free, PFOS-free coating for fabrics is part of a next generation of clean chemistry protection.
Conturax Tough from Schott
Composition: Borosilicate glass with a polymer inner coating.
Strong, structural, and with a toughening inner coating that allows it to
withstand Semtex explosives, these crystal-clear profiles are challenging our ideas of what’s possible in glass.
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