Automobile Textiles

28th May 2018

Expanding its European production capacities, Autoneum has opened a plant for manufacturing lightweight components for acoustic and thermal management in Komárom, Hungary. The plant, Autoneum’s sixth Eastern European production site, will start producing multifunctional carpet systems for a German premium car manufacturer within a few weeks.

5th May 2018

The global automotive airbag yarn market is projected to experience a healthy growth beginning 2018 with favourable opportunities in all the four regions around the world and is estimated to reach $1,274.3 billion by 2023, offering an opportunity to players in the value chain to align themselves with the market growth, according to a new research...

7th Apr 2018

Stahl, a leader in process and specialty chemicals for a variety of materials, is set to showcase all VOC-free solutions used in the Rinspeed Snap concept car for a premium sustainable car of the future, at the Milan Design Week 2018, an important platform for design products and launching design careers, to be held from April 17 to 22, 2018, in Italy.

27th Mar 2018

Lear Corporation, one of the world’s leading suppliers of automotive seating systems and electrical systems (E-Systems), has announced the opening of the expansion of its automotive seating structures manufacturing facility in Valenca, Portugal. Lear maintains 257 locations in 39 countries around the globe and employs approximately 165,000 employees.

26th Mar 2018

Freudenberg Far Eastern Spunweb is planning to build an additional production line at the Tayuan Tao-Yuan site in Taiwan. This expansion of capacity will enable the company to meet growing demand in the traditional automotive and carpet markets of Asia. This capacity expansion will also enable Freudenberg to develop the company’s regional position.

24th Mar 2018

Adient, the global leader in automotive seating for all vehicle classes and all major OEMs, and Arvind Limited, one of the leading textile to retail and brands conglomerate based in India, have announced the formation of Adient Arvind Automotive Fabrics, a joint venture that will develop, manufacture, and sell automotive fabrics in Ahmedabad, India.

19th Mar 2018

Autoneum has developed a "Carpet Cleanability Analyser" measurement system to analyse and compare the cleanability of different carpet surfaces. Three carpet samples soiled with strongly adhering particles like grains of sand or wool fibres are cleaned by a robot-guided suction arm. Cleanability and dirt resistance of each carpet is then calculated.

17th Mar 2018

Magna, a leading technology company and an automotive supplier headquartered in Canada, has announced that the firm has opened a new composites centre of excellence in Esslingen, Germany, that aims to help European automakers meet increasingly stringent emissions requirements with lightweight structures and exterior components made of advanced...

20th Feb 2018

Following several years of close technical collaboration, carbon fibre recycling company ELG Carbon Fibre and Sanko Engineering and Tooling (SET) and Sanko Gosei UK have formalised their commercial partnership. A key element of this strategic alliance will be the further development of cost effective, lightweight solutions for the automotive market.