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Drexel brings Shima Seiki expertise to FutureTEX

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US initiative will combine advanced knitwear and other textile manufacturing, applied research and workforce development to strengthen defence supply chains

North Carolina - Drexel University is to contribute its Shima Seiki flat knitting capability to FutureTEX, a 10-year US programme led by North Carolina State University to modernise textile manufacturing for defence and domestic markets.

The FutureTEX award – which includes $36 million in its first year and has a ceiling of $480 million over a decade – brings together industry, government, university and nonprofit partners to advance manufacturing technologies of textiles for military and domestic applications.

 

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