A standard industrial knitting machine has been modified to produce fabrics from tungsten wire coated in gold, which are used ...

A new material is so strong that just a 1.8-millimetre-thick sheet of it could stop a bullet, making it far stronger than Kevlar and possibly the strongest fabric ever made. Bulletproof vests work by ...

DuPont Co.'s recent announcement for the sale of its aramids business — including its iconic Kevlar and Nomex brands — has struck a chord with some people familiar with the iconic U.S. chemicals firm.

(Reuters) -DuPont will sell its heat-resistant fiber business Aramids, home to brands such as body armor maker Kevlar, to peer Arclin for $1.8 billion as the chemicals company undergoes a broader ...

The evolution of clothing and textiles maps the arc of our progress as humans. From the skins of hunted animals to labgrown spider silk and materials engineered at the atomic level. It’s important to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Private equity groups Advent International and Platinum Equity are vying to buy $2bn worth of assets, including ...

The Australian Red Cross is in the final stages of adopting a data mesh approach using Microsoft Fabric following a “false start” with a traditional centralised data lake model. The not-for-profit ...