footwear leathers news

2nd Mar 2021

Technical Absorbents has unveiled the next generation of its online sample shop. Designed to flow seamlessly from the company’s main website, the online shop helps visitors search for samples by product type and market sector. The company first introduced an ecommerce facility in 2015 to give prospective customers a clear overview of its product...

1st Mar 2021

Dow, Kashi, and Berry Global have won the 2020 SEAL Environmental Initiative Award, for their collaboration to create the first fully recyclable flexible barrier pouch available nationally for Kashi's Bear Naked Granola brand. Dow is a chemical company whose portfolio of businesses consists of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings, and silicones.

1st Mar 2021

University of Central Florida is working with NASA to develop thin-ply composites to be used in Spacecraft and NASA Missions. Thin-ply composite, made from woven fibres, are as thin as carpenter's measuring tape but strong enough to support satellite payloads, such as solar sails for solar-powered space travel, or serve as supports for large spacecraft.

27th Feb 2021

M1 Composites Technology, a Transport Canada Approved Maintenance Organisation (AMO), has attained Mach 5, the highest level of the MACH initiative. The achievement brings real benefits for M1 Composites customers and demonstrates M1's ability to quickly develop new capabilities, maintain high quality standards, improved processes, and fast turnaround...

26th Feb 2021

ASTM International’s geosynthetics committee is working on standard for vinyl sheet piling. There is a need for specification for vinyl sheet piling used for structural walls to hold back soil, separate land from water, mitigate flooding and erosion, and control water flow. The proposed standard will be mainly used by structural, civil, and design...

26th Feb 2021

The consumption of absorbent hygiene products, including disposable diapers, feminine hygiene and adult incontinence products—grew to about 691 billion units in 2020, says a report on the outlook for absorbent hygiene products and the key raw materials of non-wovens, fluff pulp, air-laid cores, super-absorbents and hygiene films by Price Hanna...

26th Feb 2021

ThermHex Waben GmbH, a Germany-based producer of polypropylene (PP) honeycomb cores, has announced that the company increased its capital to €1 million. The shareholders' meeting of the parent company EconCore NV had already approved this in 2020. The increase of €900,000 has now been entered in the commercial register before the end of the financial...

26th Feb 2021

Shawmut Corporation has established a new Health and Safety business unit that will use its trademark advanced materials, textile manufacturing and process innovation techniques to produce high-quality, US-made, health and safety products, including its Protex line of PPE. Shawmut broadened its medical focus last year to include PPE for COVID-19...

26th Feb 2021

A new show for composites industry - the International Composites Summit – is all set to take off on September 8. The two-day event is being co-organised by Composites UK and Fluency Marketing in London. The summit will focus on reinventing the global supply chain for composites, and will bring together companies and experts from world over.