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Polyester product ‘looks and feels like silk’, Teijin says

31/07/2019

Japanese fibre and fabric manufacturer Teijin has announced a polyester fabric that it says “looks and feels like fine silk”. It said it aims to secure annual sales of 150,000 metres of the new product by the fiscal year ending March 2022.  Teijin said it had noted for some time that materials in which “delicate fibre fluff is fibrillated on the...

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