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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