24th Feb 2022
Tentoma, Denmark’s leader in sealed nonwoven roll packaging, has launched an XL Power packaging machine that enables sealed packaging of up to 19-meter-long nonwoven rolls. For the packaging of shorter rolls, XL Power can stretch film for even more products per packaging cycle, which increases the packaging speed. The XL Power replaces an orbital...
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.
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.
22nd Feb 2022
Gov. John Bel Edwards and Origin Materials, a carbon-negative materials company committed to leading the global transition to sustainable materials, have announced that the company plans an investment of at least $750 million to develop a biomass manufacturing facility in Ascension Parish that will result in 1,057 new direct and indirect jobs.
22nd Feb 2022
IMA TMC will attend Tissue World Miami 2022 from March 16-18, 2022, in booth B10. The show will display products, and services with North America’s tissue industry decision-makers, purchasers and innovators. IMA is a leader in the manufacture of automatic machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, tea and coffee.