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21st Sep 2021

UAE’s Notus Composites has announced the latest addition to its high-performance epoxy range with the launch of its new NE7 low temperature curing prepreg system. The new Notus NE7 formulation allows composite manufacturers to cure components at temperatures as low as 70˚C, reducing energy consumption and enabling more cost-effective tooling options.

21st Sep 2021

Tufropes, an Indian global leader for ropes and netting solutions, has partnered A.Celli Nonwovens for supplying strategic technologies for their new patent-pending spunlace line. This greenfield project, the first global industrial-scale line capable of producing five different nonwovens types, will be located in Gujarat, India, according to the...

20th Sep 2021

Berry Global has joined the Recycling Partnership’s Polypropylene Recycling Coalition, which is aimed at increasing recycling access for polypropylene. This announcement extends Berry’s goal of enhancing recycling infrastructure as part of the quest toward a circular economy. Berry Global is an US-based packaging and engineering products company.

20th Sep 2021

Glatfelter Corporation, a leading global supplier of engineered materials, has announced that effective immediately, it will increase prices for all composite fibre products by 12 per cent, or as customer contracts permit. The decision is driven by continued price increases of raw materials including pulp, synthetic fibres, chemicals and packaging...

18th Sep 2021

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, a US-based manufacturer of personal care products and operator of non-woven fabric mills, has announced that it has elected Deirdre Mahlan and Jaime Ramirez to its board of directors, effective immediately. Mahlan and Ramirez each will serve on the Kimberly-Clark’s audit committee, according to the company.

17th Sep 2021

A team of scientists from Russia’s Ural Federal University (UrFU) and Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology in India have developed the world's first method for the synthesis of quaternary nanocomposites based on zinc, lead, cadmium, and copper oxide (ZnO-PbO-CdO-CuO). These composites decolorise textile dyes and have antibacterial activity.

17th Sep 2021

PureCycle Technologies, a company revolutionising polypropylene recycling, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Mitsui, an investment firm in Japan with a diversified business portfolio, as a first step for developing a recycling facility in Japan to transform polypropylene (PP) waste into Ultra-Pure Recycled Polypropylene (UPRP).

16th Sep 2021

More than a hundred Italian exhibitors, including about eighty textile machinery manufacturers, are slated to exhibit at the world’s leading nonwovens trade show Index20 to be held in Geneva from October 19-22. As in the past editions, Italian Trade Agency will organise an Italian Pavilion, where 13 Italian manufacturers will exhibit their equipment.

16th Sep 2021

Japanese company Toray Advanced Composites, Electroimpact, and Janicki Industries have entered into a joint agreement for the high-speed manufacture of large thermoplastic composite parts. Electroimpact is a leader in assembly and manufacturing automation. Janicki Industries is a leading supplier of composite and metal tools, prototypes and parts.