nylon news

27th Apr 2022

Sandler increased both its revenue and number of its employees in 2021. The company generated €365 million in turnover, an increase of 11 per cent. This rate of growth is mainly attributable to the capacity expansion at the US subsidiary Sandler Nonwoven Corporation in Perry, Georgia. In addition, there was double-digit sales growth in technical...

26th Apr 2022

Directa Plus, an Italian producer and supplier of graphene nanoplatelets based products for use in consumer and industrial markets, has announced that it has signed a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with a leading worldwide supplier of automotive interiors to Tier 1 manufacturers. The company’s products are used in commercial applications.

25th Apr 2022

Researchers from Loughborough University in the UK and the University of Moratuwa in Sri Lanka have developed a scalable manufacturing technique to create wearable fabrics embedded with very small power generators known as ‘triboelectric nanogenerators’. The techniquecan turn common textile materials into energy-generating textiles using established...

25th Apr 2022

PFNonwovens has opened a new nonwovens specialty line at its centre of excellence in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. The line includes multiple A.Celli nonwovens equipment components. The production line, developed with Reicofil R5 technology, is equipped with E-WIND WAVE Master Roll winders and E-WIND SUPER SONIC slitter rewinders with Corematic Evo...

22nd Apr 2022

Germ-O-Guard, established for commercialisation of sterilisation technologies, is launching a crowdfunding campaign to introduce its line of anti-viral and anti-bacterial products to the market. The products are made from materials with self-sterilising properties, making them perfect for keeping surfaces germ free 24/7 and making them safer to touch.

22nd Apr 2022

The next edition of Techtextil will take place in Frankfurt from June 21 to 24, 2022. The return of Italian textile machinery manufacturers to the trade fair after the last edition in 2019 will once again see them in the spotlight. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for special-purpose textiles, especially in the medical and PPE sectors.

21st Apr 2022

The UK’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) has proposed that the existing anti-dumping and countervailing measures on continuous glass fibre from China be kept for a further five years. Glass fibres are used in the creation of wind turbine blades as well as in construction and automotive applications including manufacture of electric vehicles.

20th Apr 2022

A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a novel super-hygroscopic material that enhances sweat evaporation within a personal protective suit, to create a cooling effect for better thermal comfort for users such as healthcare workers and frontline officers. This composite film reduces heat index by 40 per cent.

20th Apr 2022

Canada’s Centennial College and its partners have received $4 million in multi-year funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada to develop products for the global e-textile market, as well as to assist small and medium-sized enterprises in the transportation, food production, energy and advanced manufacturing sectors.