leathers news

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

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.

25th Feb 2021

Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT), a provider of innovative fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite solutions, has unveiled a new operating division - AIT Manufacturing. The new division adds to AIT’s two existing divisions. With three divisions, AIT can help supply FRP composite solutions from rebar to bridges, and continue innovate in...

25th Feb 2021

Bindatex Advanced Materials Cutting, which specialises in precision cutting of 'difficult to cut' materials, is enhancing capacity for slitting nonwovens as it continues to deliver fast turnaround times. The expansion follows the successful completion of projects for several UK PPE manufacturers and other companies in the medical technology sector.

25th Feb 2021

Ontex, an international personal hygiene group, has come out with an innovation to improve incontinence care. It has developed a top-quality diaper with a printed sensor, a transmitter clipped onto the diaper as well as an application for mobile devices. This determines the saturation level of the diaper and the risk of leakage, alerting caregivers.

25th Feb 2021

The Indian state of Gujarat recently approved 5 big investment proposals by 4 firms, which will invest close to ₹6,000 crore in diverse sectors. The companies will set up manufacturing facilities in Dholera and Halol. This includes baby diaper manufacturing brand Avgol’s proposal for setting up a ₹1,000 crore new technical textile plant at Halol.