Hohenstein offers updates on algae for textiles
02/04/2015
Launched at the end of 2013 in partnership with Germany’s Hohenstein Institute, BRAIN, Kelheim Fibres and rökona, the project’s focus has been the manufacture of pure alginates.
Alginates have been used for a long time in medicine for wound dressing but since the composition of the algae varies, the quality varies, too.
“By using bio-technological procedures, the use of alginates in a special textile sector has been possible for the first time in a differentiated way,” said Dr Timo Hammer, coordinator of the AlBioTex project.
Other bio-based developments on show at the fair (May 4 to 7 in Frankfurt) include organic plates made from natural fibres (TU Dresden), light sandwich or hollow structures (ITV Denkendorf) and bio-based self-reinforcing composite materials (RWTH Aachen).
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