cosmetics news

10th Nov 2020

Warden Schijve, former chief scientist composites at Sabic, has become part of the AZL engineering team. Schijve has 35 years of experience in the composites industry. Besides Sabic, he has worked with companies like Fokker and DSM, bringing a broad and deep expertise in structural design, plastics and composites, and processing technology to AZL...

10th Nov 2020

Hypetex, award winning innovators in carbon fibre colourisation technologies, and SHD Group, manufacturer of advanced composite tooling and component prepreg materials, have joined hands to supply Hypetex coloured fabrics with SHD's MTC epoxy resin systems. Hypetex's cosmetic finishes will now be available in combination with SHD’s prepreg systems.

9th Nov 2020

Ahlstrom-Munksjo has announced that it has strengthened the long-term strategy development and deepened its innovation and sustainability focus by extending the group executive management team. Ahlstrom-Munksjo is a global leader in fibre-based materials, supplying innovative, and sustainable solutions to its customers, which is headquartered in...

9th Nov 2020

Leading SMEs in the composites sector now have a dedicated home to showcase their expertise to the construction OEMs within the i3P programme. Composites UK has teamed up with i3P to launch a dedicated composites portal for the i3P community, a group of 30 leading organisations in infrastructure, including asset owners and major players.

6th Nov 2020

The government of Belgium's Flemish region has set aside €30 million for a variety of environmental projects, including recycling of disposable nappies, secretary of state for poverty reduction Zuhal Demir has said. "If we can manage to roll out a recycling project that gives nappies a second life, we can make the mountain of waste even smaller," Demir ...

6th Nov 2020

Glatfelter, a supplier of engineered materials, has elected Darrel Hackett, president, Bank of Montreal (BMO) wealth management, US, to the board of directors, effective November 1, 2020. The company's solutions are found in tea and single-serve coffee filtration, personal hygiene and packaging products, and in home improvement and industrial...

6th Nov 2020

Kuraray Kuraflex has announced that its Kuraflex counter cloth, a nonwoven kitchen wipe for hygiene control, has been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), as conforming to the FSC certification system, an international certification system associated with forest management. The company manufactures and sells nonwoven fabrics and products.

6th Nov 2020

In order to better serve its customers and improve delivery times of filter fabrics to the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions, Valmet, one of the leading suppliers of filter fabrics and industrial textiles globally, has decided to invest in filter fabric manufacturing in Pune, India. The new unit will start operation in the second quarter of 2021.

5th Nov 2020

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings has signed an amendment to the definitive agreement between Spirit AeroSystems (Spirit) and Spirit AeroSystems Global Holdings (Spirit UK), wholly owned subsidiaries of the company, and Bombardier, Bombardier Aerospace UK, Bombardier Finance and Bombardier Services Corporation (collectively, the Bombardier Sellers).