world textiles research news

3rd Feb 2023

Lear has been named on Fortune magazine’s ‘World’s Most Admired Companies’ list for the seventh consecutive year. Lear was awarded the highest placement for any North America-based automotive supplier in the Motor Vehicles Parts Industry survey. Lear is an automotive technology leader in seating and e-systems, that enables superior in-vehicle...

3rd Feb 2023

Global companies from more than 15 countries in the filtration and separation industry are set to connect with some 1,500 industry professionals and launch their innovations at FiltXPO 2023. FiltXPO, North America’s only exhibition and conference dedicated exclusively to filtration and separation, will be held from October 10-12, 2023, in Chicago,...

2nd Feb 2023

Switzerland’s Gurit, a company that specialises in advanced composites, has posted preliminary and unaudited net sales of CHF 499.5 million, up 6.7 per cent YoY, for fiscal 2022. The company’s net sales of continued operations were CHF 488.6 million, which is an increase of 17 per cent at constant exchange rates or 11.6 per cent in reported CHF versus...

2nd Feb 2023

Japan’s Toray has made recycled nylon 66 recovered from silicone-coated airbag fabric scrap cuttings. This material achieves the same flowability and mechanical properties as injection moulding grades from virgin nylon 66. Toray specialises in industrial products centred on technologies in organic synthetic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and...

1st Feb 2023

Berry, a leader in the design, development, and production of patient-centred healthcare solutions, will begin production at its new manufacturing facility and healthcare centre of excellence (CoE) in Bangalore, India as early as April 2023. The Greenfield expansion project will create local jobs and improve global access to health products.

1st Feb 2023

Swiss company Autoneum operates five Dieffenbacher automotive component production lines at its Sevelen site. Together with Dieffenbacher, Autoneum has now extensively modernised one of the lines, a GMT/LFT-D line for glass-fibre-reinforced thermoplastics. One highlight of the project was the introduction of the new Evoris digitalisation platform.

1st Feb 2023

Researchers in the US have made novel carbon nanotube yarns that convert mechanical movement into electricity more effectively than other material-based energy harvesters. Improvements to the invented high-tech yarns were called ‘twistrons,’ which generate electricity when stretched or twisted. Their new version is constructed much like cotton yarns.

31st Jan 2023

Sweden-based global hygiene and health company Essity has reported 28.2 per cent year-on-year growth in net sales to SEK 156,173 million in fiscal 2022 (FY22). The company’s sales growth, including organic sales growth and acquisitions, amounted to 17.7 per cent. Adjusted EBITA amounted to SEK 13,058 million and the adjusted EBITA margin to 8.4 per...

30th Jan 2023

Germany’s Voith has acquired shares in the sustainability start-up Yangi, headquartered in Varberg, Sweden. Yangi’s ground-breaking technology emerges from ten years of R&D within its sister company, The Loop Factory, which focuses on the megatrends of sustainability and circular economy. Yangi manufactures next-generation fibre-based solutions.