leathers news

18th Jan 2022

UK’s PRF Composite Materials has named Dave Ellson as managing director from January 2022. PRF has expanded enormously over the last few years, and has invested considerable funds into this expansion and paving the way for future growth. PRF Composite Materials is a manufacturer of high-performance materials for the advanced composites industry.

18th Jan 2022

US’ Triumph has announced the appointment of Craig Cooper to vice president, integrated supply chain and operations. In this role, as a member of the senior leadership team, he will have oversight of the company's operations, quality, engineering, and supply chain functions as well as oversee the Triumph Operating System (TOS) deployment efforts.

17th Jan 2022

Finland’s Ahlstrom-Munksjö, a leader in fibre-based materials, has unveiled EcoJet Transfer S Series for digital-transfer printing applications. The new product series consist of high-quality transfer papers that offer excellent printing and transfer resolution, fast ink drying, and high ink acceptance, especially suitable for hard surface image...

17th Jan 2022

Bast Fibre has entered into an agreement to acquire Lumberton Cellulose (LC), a natural fibre processing facility located in Lumberton, North Carolina from Georgia-Pacific Cellulose. Bast Fibre is a triple-bottom line cleantech fibre engineering firm manufacturing specialty natural fibre for applications throughout the nonwovens and textile industries.

17th Jan 2022

Frontier.cool, the world’s largest cloud solution, has revealed the world’s first FPGA-based MPSoC (multiprocessor system on a chip) for the textile industry, based on FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) hardware acceleration, at the recently held CES 2022, in Las Vegas in the US. Frontier facilitates the rapid, scalable digitisation of textile...

17th Jan 2022

US’ Sun Chemical has acquired SAPICI, a leading company in high-performance polyurethanes for coatings, flexible packaging, industrial adhesives and more. Sun Chemical is a producer of packaging and graphic solutions, colour, and display technologies, functional products, electronic materials, and products for the automotive and healthcare industries.

14th Jan 2022

Industrial Asset Recovery Group (IARG) has announced the liquidation of chemical plants formerly operated by Emerald Performance Materials in Henry, Illinois. The plant officially ceased operations in 2021. Emerald Performance Materials was a producer of specialty chemical products for flavours, fragrances, food, beverage, personal, household care.

13th Jan 2022

The Honest Company, a digitally-native, mission-driven brand focused on leading the clean lifestyle movement, has announced that Steve Austenfeld will be joining the organisation as vice president, investor relations. US’ Honest has been dedicated to creating thoughtfully formulated, safe and effective personal care, beauty, baby and household products.

13th Jan 2022

P&G Ventures, the early-stage start-up studio within Procter & Gamble, has announced Lady Patch as the winner of the 2022 Innovation Challenge during the virtual CES event. Chosen from a record number of submissions, Lady Patch will be awarded the grand prize of $10,000 and the opportunity to partner with P&G Ventures to continue developing their...