8th Dec 2020
International technology group, Andritz, has signed an agreement with Laroche, to acquire LM Industries, comprising Laroche SA and Miltec SA, France. Andritz will take over all Laroche entities and their business worldwide. Closing of the transaction, which is subject to approval by the Andritz supervisory board, is expected at the beginning of 2021.
8th Dec 2020
Autoliv, a Sweden-based leader in automotive safety systems, has announced that on December 8, 2020, company’s board of directors have appointed Frederic Lissalde as an independent director to the Autoliv board of directors effective immediately. With the addition of Lissalde, Autoliv has expanded its board size from eleven to twelve directors.
7th Dec 2020
Hutchinson is helping in reduction of weight of vehicles by use of composites and through control of the product’s design. Attention paid to design enables parts already made in composite material to be optimised even further, the company says. Vehicle weight reduction is essential to comply with new environmental standards which demand low emissions.
7th Dec 2020
Royal DSM, a global science-based company in nutrition, health and sustainable living, has announced a strategic partnership with Team Sunweb. Fresh from winning multiple stages of the Tour de France and dominating the podium of the Giro d’Italia in 2020, the professional road cycling team Sunweb will be known as Team DSM from January 1, 2021.
7th Dec 2020
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry has hailed the government decision to form a dedicated Export Promotion Council for Technical Textiles. Its chairman T Rajkumar said that the government target of achieving a market size of $350 billion by 2024-25 for the textile and apparel sector can only be realized by going beyond the conventional...
4th Dec 2020
VDMA, a German engineering industry association, has announced that the next VDMA technology webtalk is scheduled for December 9, 2020. The topic will be “Technologies for Technical Textiles”. Bena Manasieva Cavus from Georg Sahm, Janpeter Horn & Dennis Behnken from Herzog, and Hagen Lotzmann from Karl Mayer will be the presenters for the event.
4th Dec 2020
Sonntag Fins has collaborated with Sicomin to use its GreenPoxy 33 bio-based epoxy resin for making custom carbon windsurf fins.These fins combine speed, fatigue performance and sustainability for some of the fastest sailors. Each Sonntag fin is custom made, tailored specifically to the user based on an understanding of riding style, physical size and...
4th Dec 2020
The Mann+Hummel Group, a filtration expert, plans to close its main manufacturing facility at Hilton Cross Business Park in Wolverhampton, UK, as it reviews its operational footprint. With this, all manufacture will be relocated within the European Mann+Hummel network. The manufacturing operations are likely to be fully closed by the end of 2022.
4th Dec 2020
Composites Evolution, a UK-based developer, manufacturer and supplier of prepregs for the production of lightweight structures from composite materials, announced that the company has passed their 3-year ISO 9001:2015 re-assessment following a thorough auditing process. ISO 9001 is the international standard for a quality management system.