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28th Jun 2019

Sekisui Chemical has signed a stock purchase agreement with Liberty Hall Capital Partners, LP, and others to acquire all outstanding stock in AIM Aerospace Corporation and indirectly acquire its six subsidiaries. The AIM Aerospace group manufactures and sales carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) for aircraft, drones and other composite mould...

28th Jun 2019

The Composites Business Unit of Siempelkamp Group, established in the market as a system supplier for composites presses, has received a first order to deliver a 1,200 US t-SMC press system to a new US American customer. The Texan company will use this equipment for the production of fibre reinforced components used in infrastructure for road...

27th Jun 2019

Shape Machining will be working with top UK Formula Student team Oxford Brookes Racing (OBR) by providing accurate CNC machined patterns and Rohacell foams to support manufacture of carbon composite structures used on OBR’s 2019 car. Shape provides engineering, design, tooling and manufacturing services in various industrial sectors that use carbon...

27th Jun 2019

GKN Aerospace has delivered a pair of thermoplastic composite, induction welded ruddervators, and two compression-moulded access panels manufactured from re-used thermoplastic waste material to Bell Helicopter, a Textron company. As partner on Bell’s Team Valor, GKN has designed and manufactured the complete thermoset composite V-Tail for Bell V-280...

27th Jun 2019

Raytheon Company, a leading defence company, and United Technologies, a leading aerospace company, comprising Collins Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney, are merging. The two have entered into an agreement to combine in an all-stock merger of equals. The move will offer a complementary portfolio of platform-agnostic aerospace and defence technologies.

27th Jun 2019

Techtextil 2019 highlighted textiles for functional apparel and solutions for lightweight construction in the motor-vehicle industry, with satisfied exhibitors and increased levels of international participation. The leading international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens was held from May 14-17, 2019, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

27th Jun 2019

Porcher Sport, the sports and leisure division of Porcher Industries and a leader in high performance fabrics for aerial and nautical sports, will unveil innovations for the outdoor equipment and apparel sectors at Outdoor by ISPO 2019, in hall B6, booth 409. The trade fair for the global outdoor industry will be held from June 30- July 3, 2019, in...

26th Jun 2019

Ikea and adidas have joined hands to explore the connections between living spaces and sport, and how both can adapt to help create healthy habits. The partnership will bring together designers from both companies to exchange knowledge, insights and ideas to imagine ways to make working out at home easier. The focus of the exercise will be young women.

26th Jun 2019

Environmental sustainability of absorbent hygiene and personal care products will be the focus at Hygienix 2019 to be held in Houston, Texas in November. Experts will address issues such as plastics in the environment, reusable femcare products, nonwoven industry's new position statement on plastics, and the impact of absorbent hygiene products in...