22nd Jul 2021
Glen Raven, a leading provider of innovative performance textiles with widely recognised brands including Sunbrella and Dickson, will invest up to $82 million and create 205 new jobs as it expands Custom Fabrics operations in Warren County, NC, US. A performance-based grant of $1 million from the One North Carolina Fund will help facilitate the...
22nd Jul 2021
American spacecraft company Lockheed Martin has opened its Spacecraft Test, Assembly and Resource (STAR) Center in Titusville, Florida, US. It features business and digital transformation innovations that will expand manufacturing, assembly and testing capacity for NASA's Orion spacecraft programme and ultimately, future space exploration.
21st Jul 2021
E-Xstream engineering, part of Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence division, has been chosen by McLaren Racing to provide materials data management for its Formula 1 cars. The historic racing team uses advanced materials to get optimal performance from its race cars. The team has selected the MaterialCenter materials lifecycle management system.
20th Jul 2021
INDA, the association of nonwoven fabrics industry, has wrapped up its 15th annual World of Wipes (WOW) International Conference, held from July 12-15. The in-person event was attended by 475 enthusiastic professionals from 14 countries, recording the highest attendance in six years. The World of Wipes Innovation Award was presented to Kimberly-Clark...
20th Jul 2021
Asahi Kasei has introduced Bemliese, its proprietary ultra-sustainable continuous-filament cellulosic nonwoven fabric, in North America via its trading arm in the US, Asahi Kasei Advance America. Bemliese is a nonwoven fabric sheet made from cotton linter – tiny hair-like fibres on cotton seeds. So far, linter has been seen as a pre-consumer waste...
20th Jul 2021
German textile machinery firm, Truetzschler, will show high-performance solutions for efficient production of disinfectant and biodegradable wipe materials at SINCE/ANEX 2021 show, in booth 1J20. The 19th Shanghai international nonwovens exhibition (SINCE) and Asia Nonwovens Exhibition and Conference (ANEX), will be held from July 22- 24, 2021, in...
20th Jul 2021
Scientists at Texas A&M University have designed 3D printable phase-change material (PCM) composites which can regulate ambient temperatures inside buildings. These can be added to building materials, like paint, or 3D printed as decorative home accents, opening possibilities for passive temperature regulation in both new and existing structures.
20th Jul 2021
NASA is working on new deployable structures and materials technologies for solar sail propulsion systems for future low-cost deep space missions. Just as a sailboat is powered by wind in a sail, solar sails use the pressure of sunlight for propulsion. Data obtained from NASA’s ACS3 mission will help develop future larger-scale composite solar sail...
19th Jul 2021
Spirit AeroSystems and Fiber Materials, subsidiaries of Spirit AeroSystems Holdings, and Albany Engineered Composites, a subsidiary of Albany International, have joined hands to develop technical and industrialised solutions for hypersonic programme. Their joint expertise will result in scalable, affordable thermal protection systems solutions.