22nd May 2020
At a virtual ceremony in Paris, ASICS, a Japanese multinational corporation, was announced the winner of the JEC World Composites Innovation Award in Sports and Health care category. The award was granted by an international jury for advanced moulding technology behind ASICS spikeless track shoe, Metasprint, designed to improve speed over short...
21st May 2020
IFabric has said that its antiviral treatment has been found to be effective against SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of the current pandemic. It said that Protx2 treated fabrics demonstrated a greater than 99.9 per cent reduction in active viral loads on the tested fabrics. The testing was carried out by an internationally recognised, independent...
21st May 2020
The Johns Manville plant in Spartanburg, South Carolina, started producing nonwoven fabric that will be used for manufacturing urgently needed disposable medical gowns used to fight spread of COVID-19. The new polyester spunbond nonwoven is designed for production of Level 3 medical gowns. Johns Manville is a manufacturer of building and specialty...
20th May 2020
Pompea, an Italian hosiery brand, has chosen to join the fight against the current COVID-19 pandemic by dedicating a tranche of its production to the manufacture of masks with filters for the exclusive use of the community, made entirely in Italy. The company is using Fulgar’s Q-SKIN bacteriostatic yarn, famous for its high performance in the sport...
20th May 2020
Coir geotextiles, a permeable fabric, natural, strong, highly durable, resistant to rots, moulds and moisture, and free from any microbial attack, has finally been accepted as a good material for rural road construction. The decision opens up a huge market potential for coir geotextiles in the country and will be a boon to the COVID-19 hit coir...
20th May 2020
Ascent Aerospace has announced that its large format additive manufacturing (LFAM) machine has been installed and is operational in Santa Ana, CA, co-located with its composite tooling shop, autoclave & clean room. Ascent's investment in the machine was announced in summer of 2019 to bring advantages of additive manufacturing to the aerospace tooling...
20th May 2020
Thomas Technik & Innovation (TTI), producer of pultruded fibre-reinforced curved and straight profiles, has collaborated with Shape, for the development of a curved carbon fibre rear bumper beam for the latest Chevrolet Corvette Stingray sports car. Shape is a US-based Tier 1 supplier of metallic body structure components, plastic parts, and bumper...
20th May 2020
In response to the need of isolation gowns, Dow, a chemicals company, has collaborated with nine key partners across a myriad of industries to develop and donate 100,000 isolation gowns to help frontline workers in Texas, Louisiana and Mexico. The gown is made with polyethylene nonwoven coated with a layer of polyethylene film made with resin donated...
19th May 2020
The developer and manufacturer of synthetic SVX spidersilk, Seevix Material Sciences, will use its patented spidersilk technology to produce disposable and safe filters with high entrapment and inactivation efficacy to neutralise COVID-19 and other coronaviruses. The filters will be based upon a specific peptide sequence that binds SARS-CoV-2 particles.