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5th Oct 2021

Ecoriginals, Australia’s plastic-neutral diapers and wipes company, has launched its eco-friendly products in the US. Ecoriginals’ diapers are ninety per cent plant-based and up to forty per cent more absorbent than standard disposable diapers. The mix-and-match packs of diapers are now available in ten sizes ranging from new-born to junior training...

5th Oct 2021

INEOS Styrolution, a leader in styrenics, and Edge Solutions, an innovator in optimisation of wind energy generation, have developed armourEdge protection for wind turbine blades based on a customised version of INEOS Styrolution’s Luran SC material. INEOS, based in Germany, focusses on styrene monomer, polystyrene, ABS Standard, and styrenic...

4th Oct 2021

Under the chairmanship of Dr Sundararaman KS, the Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) recently hosted its 11th Annual General Meeting (AGM) for FY 2020-21. The hybrid meeting was held at the Orchid Hotel, Mumbai. At the meeting, Dr Sundararaman narrated ITTA’s contributions during the year in the growth of Indian Technical Textiles Industry.

4th Oct 2021

Wing of Tomorrow, a major Airbus research and technology programme, has reached a key milestone with the assembly of its first full-size wing prototype. UK’s Airbus designs, manufactures, and delivers commercial aircraft, helicopters, military transports, satellites, and launch vehicles, and provides data services, for customers on a global scale.

4th Oct 2021

GKN Aerospace has delivered the first Fixed Trailing Edge (FTE) for Airbus’ ‘Wing of tomorrow’ research programme from its global technology centre (GTC) in Bristol. This builds upon the successful production earlier this year of the single piece composite wing spar, one of the challenging wing components produced. GKN Aerospace is an aerospace...

2nd Oct 2021

US’ Merrow Manufacturing and Precision Fabrics Group (PFG) have mobilised their resources to alleviate shortages, sub-standard design, highly variable quality and increased prices of PPE by domestically producing reusable Level 1 and 2 isolation gowns. The gown was created in collaboration with infection prevention nurses and medical product engineers.

1st Oct 2021

Ontex has announced that manufacturing at its plant in Mayen, Germany will be phased out by mid-2022. Mayen will become an excellence centre for global process engineering, global product technology and market adaptation baby care, and will bring innovations faster to the consumers. The Global Excellence Centre will be operational as of January 2022.

1st Oct 2021

Scientists at Washington University in St Louis have used microbes to make synthetic muscles. They used a synthetic chemistry approach to polymerise proteins inside engineered microbes. This enabled the microbes to produce the high molecular weight muscle protein, titin - one of the three major proteins of muscle tissue - which was then spun into...

1st Oct 2021

Andritz has successfully started up key production equipment for the first of two environmentally friendly hardwood pulp production lines supplied for Bracell’s STAR project in Lençóis Paulista, São Paulo. The second line is expected to be started up by the end of September. The Austria-based firm is a supplier of equipment for pulp and paper industry.