DNFI at Techtextil 2024

DNFI will be exhibiting for the first time at Techtextil 2024 in the Nature Performance Area, where inspiring exhibitors of bio-based materials and fibres will showcase the exciting performance of …

Dr Hermanutz and Dr Schneck win 2022 DNFI Award

Dr. Frank Hermanutz and Dr. Tanja Schneck, German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research Denkendorf (DITF), Germany, have won the DNFI Innovation in Natural Fibres Award 2022. The award-winning project …

DNFI Innovation in Natural Fibres Award 2019

The Discover Natural Fibre Initiative (DNFI) was created in January 2010 as an outgrowth of the International Year of Natural Fibres 2009, which had been declared by the United Nations …

DNFI Innovation in Natural Fibres Award 2018

The Discover Natural Fibre Initiative (DNFI) was created in January 2010 as an outgrowth of the International Year of Natural Fibres 2009, which had been declared by the United Nations …

Popzyk and Klein win 2017 DNFI Award

Marie-Isabel Popzyk, Scientific Assistant at Aachen University and Dr. Roland Klein, Group Manager at the Fraunhofer-Institute in Germany were selected through a process of on-line voting by participants in more …

China Rediscovers Hemp

China’s Heilongjiang Province massively steps up its research and development efforts to make fine, environmentally friendly hemp fibres a large-scale alternative to cotton. Additionally, experts work on hemp foods and …