25th Feb 2022
Autoliv, Swedish leader in automotive safety systems, has joined industry-leading initiative Polestar 0. The goal is to develop a truly climate-neutral car by 2030. The project unites companies across the automotive supply chain to leverage innovation to address the climate crisis and change the view of how to manufacture cars in a sustainable way.
25th Feb 2022
GRP Solutions Ltd, a United Kingdom-based company providing comprehensive range of composite solutions and services, has announced the acquisition of Estakleen Systems Ltd. Estakleen is a UK-based supplier of acetone replacement products including EasyClean, supplied for several years by GRP Solutions, and the previously named Estakleen 70.
24th Feb 2022
Japan’s Teijin has launched a lightweight, strong and cost-effective carbon fibre woven fabric developed with the company’s proprietary tow-spreading technology. The new woven fabric is made with 3K (3,000) carbon fibre filament yarn for applications requiring low weight and design flexibility, such as automotive interior materials and sporting goods.
24th Feb 2022
MP Activewear, born from the leading online sports nutrition brand MyProtein, has launched products with Sweden’s Polygiene in their high-end running range Velocity Ultra as well as their Power Ultra collection. It will cover a number of treated items in high performance fabrics for men and women, such as sport-bras, leggings, t-shirts, shorts and...
23rd Feb 2022
Austrian technology group Andritz will deliver customised needlepunch lines for production of high-quality needlepunch filter felts to Yanpai filtration technology, a Chinese producer of nonwoven filters and woven filter fabrics. The lines will enable Yanpai to achieve state-of-the-art technical characteristics in product quality and line performance.
23rd Feb 2022
Troop Comforts Limited (TCL), a government of India enterprise under the Ministry of Defence, has signed an MoU with the country’s leading research institution IIT Delhi to develop smart protective clothing for the Indian Security Forces. The TCL Group produces Troop Comfort Items for defence and paramilitary forces and has 4 factories in the country.
23rd Feb 2022
US-based firm, Neenah Filtration, has developed a Gessner medium for engine air filters in passenger cars with an improved gradient structure to fulfil these needs. Our A006D medium consists of 100 per cent leading edge cellulose and has a special paper media design – these characteristics lead to an increased lifetime of the filter medium.
22nd Feb 2022
The University of Tokyo’s Graduate School of Engineering researchers have found a cost-effective way to apply a silver-based antimicrobial clear coating to textiles. The method uses polyphenols, found in food items notorious for staining clothes such as wine and chocolate. A range of textile types can be treated and items can be washed multiple times.
22nd Feb 2022
Austria’s technology group, Andritz, has successfully started up its latest-generation tearing line for spinning grade fibres delivered to Sasia at its Ribeirão premises, Portugal. As the first of its kind in Portugal, the machine contains the latest Andritz Laroche innovation for fibre opening, featuring a new-generation pinning configuration.