Ankita Poudyal, a Ph.D. student from AUT who is supported by Revolution fibres (Dr. Bhuvana Kannan was co-supervising) has won Falling walls lab award from Royal Society Te Aparangi. This prestigious award for Ph.D. students is for the development of functional nanofibres (chemically modified nanofibres) to capture air pollutants. Bhuvana and the team at Revolution […]

Revolution Fibres is proud to announce it has won the international Textiles Institute Innovation Award 2018 for it electrospinning expertise. Inaugurated in 1990 The Textile Institute Innovation Award is given to organisations for outstanding achievement in enhancing international textile interests through creativity, commerce, marketing or economic development. Previous winners include: Kato Tech Company Ltd, Marks & […]

Material Connexion is an organisation which helps businesses create better products and experiences by leveraging new material and manufacturing innovations. Once a new material or manufacturing method passes the test Material ConneXion adds it to their growing database which can be accessed by innovators around the globe in the hopes of finding new ways to […]

Seta Nanofibre-enhanced Metamasks donated to Bali residents as Volcano causes air quality concerns 2000 nanofibre-enhanced Metamasks have been donated to Bali residents after Mount Agung spewed toxic smoke into the air. Mount Agung has been under the maximum alert level for more than a month and an estimated 180,000 people have evacuated from the area surrounding […]

Xantu.Layr has recently been named as one of three finalists of the RISE Innovation Awards 2017. The award recognises innovation within and on the periphery of the nonwovens industry that uses advanced science and engineering principles to creatively solve challenges within the nonwovens and engineered fabrics industry. ​Xantu.Layr is up against some clever competition, with Mogul’s […]

Awards Recap A few weeks ago we announced we were off to Frankfurt after confirmation being sent through that we had been shortlisted as one of three finalists in the Industrial textiles category at the Future Textiles Awards 2017. We were really excited to see how Xantu.Layr would do against the world’s most innovative industrial nanotechnology. […]