DNFI Award 2020: Dr Noureddine Abidi Honored During Award Ceremony
6. November 2020 Dr Noureddine Abidi, Professor and Director, Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute (FBRI), Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA, was honored during an Award Ceremony conducted by the Discover Natural Fibres Initiative (DNFI) on October... To the article
A Look into the Archive: Arbitration at the Bremen Cotton Exchange from 1873 to 1914
29. October 2020 Arbitration has been one of the main statutory tasks of the Bremen Cotton Exchange for almost 150 years. It essentially concerns the settlement of disputes between contractual partners in the event of quality defects... To the article
DNFI Award 2020: Bioplastic films from cotton to substitute plastics
23. October 2020 Dr. Noureddine Abidi, Professor and Director, Fiber and Biopolymer Research Institute (FBRI), Texas Tech University, U.S.A., has won the 2020 Discover Natural Fibres Initiative Innovation Award. Dr. Abidi has developed a process to produce... To the article
World Cotton Day on 7 October Highlights the Importance of Cotton for Development Policy
7. October 2020 Press release Bremen, 7 October 2020. Stemming from a 2019 initiative of the African Cotton-4 countries Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad and Mali, World Cotton Day will take place this year on 7 October. The... To the article
Use of Stickiness Test Results for Trading Purposes
29. September 2020 When present, stickiness causes drastic problems in processing and in yarn quality, hence it is important to evaluate the stickiness of cotton for trading. Based on their work in the ITMF International Committee on... To the article
Nominations for the 2020 DNFI Award Received
28. September 2020 A fascinating array of nominations for the Discover Natural Fibres Initiative (DNFI) Innovation in Natural Fibres Award 2020 were received by the deadline on 11 September, and eight finalists have been identified. Final judging... To the article