HARELBEKE, HANNOVER – Het Harelbeekse familiebedrijf Lano mag een uniek patent van de Amerikaanse groep Mohawk (de nummer één wereldwijd in de vloerbekleding) exclusief verdelen op de Europese markt. Dat raakte bekend op de beurs Domotex in Hannover.

While Apple does file numerous patents and applications on a weekly basis, they should be taken as guidance as to areas of Apple's interest, and not a guarantee that the company will be incorporating the concepts into future Apple products.

At the start of the year, the OEKO-TEX® Association as usual updated the applicable test criteria and limit values for product certification in accordance with STANDARD 100 and the LEATHER STANDARD by OEKO-TEX®.

Kanaal Z zond op 19 november een reportage uit over de conferentie "Recycling of Textiles and Plastic" die Centexbel-VKC organiseerde op 13 & 14 november 2018. Interviews met onder andere Jan Laperre en Wim Grymonprez.

Regionale TV zender stelt enkele innovatieve textielbedrijven uit Oost-Vlaanderen in de kijker.

In oktober 2018 werden onze labo's met succes onderworpen aan de jaarlijkse BELAC audits.

On 2 & 3 October 2018, more than 100 participants from Belgium and abroad gathered at the Park Inn Hotel in Liège Airport to attend the 2018 international conference on COMPOSITES. The conference was organised by CENTEXBEL, the Textiles Competence Centre, and provided a platform to the participants form the industry and research world to discuss the exceptional characteristics of these new materials and to highlight the challenges of their production.

De tweejaarlijkse essenscia Innovation Award is de meest prestigieuze prijs voor industriële innovatie in België. Met deze innovatiewedstrijd wil essenscia de vele innovaties in de Belgische industrie in de kijker zetten en bedrijven stimuleren om te blijven investeren in vernieuwende en duurzame producten en toepassingen.

Guy Buyle presents Centexbel at TCBL Textile & Clothing Business Labs, that is building a multi-faceted business ecosystem of sector enterprises, innovation labs, service providers, and business advisors, all working together to transform the Textiles and Clothing industry. The common objective is to build alternative paths to over-production and diminishing value while returning 5% of production capacity and reducing environmental footprint by 20%, within 2025.

Vision 2020 is an Open Innovation network for research organisations & businesses seeking funding from the European Union's €80 billion 'Horizon 2020' programme