leathers news

30th Dec 2020

International technology Group Andritz and Suominen, a global manufacturer of innovative and sustainable nonwovens, have been collaborating for the past few years. The partnership has resulted in Suominen developing new generations of wipes and meeting future demands in terms of sustainability with Andritz helping in maintaining its production lines.

29th Dec 2020

Gulf Craft has unveiled the Majesty 122, a class leading superyacht manufactured using Scott Bader's Crystic resins, gelcoats and adhesives. Established in 1982, Gulf Craft is a major manufacturer of luxury yachts and leisure boats ranging. Scott Bader and Gulf Craft have been working in partnership since 2007 to manufacture world class range of...

29th Dec 2020

Belotti has announced the opening of Belotti America that will be headquartered next to DFW Airport in Irving, Texas. Following the successful launch of Belotti Deutschland and the celebration of its 40th anniversary of designing 3- and 5-axis CNC centres, the new subsidiary intends in supporting and growing its customer base in North America.

28th Dec 2020

Leading provider of personal hygiene solutions, Ontex, has received B scores from CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) in 2020 for both its climate and forest protection efforts, improving on the scores achieved in 2019. CDP analyses the sustainability efforts of thousands of companies for institutional investors that manage over $100 trillion in assets.

28th Dec 2020

Skydio, a leading US drone manufacturer and leader in autonomous flight technology, and Arris, a leader in advanced manufacturing of high-performance products, have used Additive Molding, Arris’s breakthrough carbon fibre manufacturing technology, to design airframe. This will lead to lighter, longer-range, and more robust aircraft structures at scale.

28th Dec 2020

University of Rhode Island College of Engineering will help three Rhode Island companies with its expertise as part of the 401 Tech Bridge Materials Innovation Challenge. The companies, selected as challenge winners from applicants across the country, will leverage the university’s academic resources and work with three advanced materials researchers.

28th Dec 2020

Arris, a California-based manufacturing tech pioneer enabling the use of high-performance composites in mass-market products, has got a new strategic investment partner in Robert Bosch Venture Capital (RBVC). The Bosch Group's venture division RBVC joins New Enterprise Associates, Taiwania Capital, Valo Ventures, and Alumni Venture Group as Arris’...

25th Dec 2020

Kordsa, a global player of tire, construction reinforcement and composites technologies, presented KraTos, its innovative synthetic fibre which is highly preferred by infrastructure, superstructure and mining projects, at the Global Concrete Summit. Organised online for the first time, the summit discussed the future of concrete and concrete structures.

25th Dec 2020

The National Composites Centre (NCC) - one of the seven High Value Manufacturing Catapult centres - and the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) are collaborating to explore the art of the possible for the next generation of lightweight, strong and resilient combat aircraft composite structures. The two have set up a joint steering group.