leathers news

8th Dec 2020

Autoliv, a Sweden-based leader in automotive safety systems, has announced that on December 8, 2020, company’s board of directors have appointed Frederic Lissalde as an independent director to the Autoliv board of directors effective immediately. With the addition of Lissalde, Autoliv has expanded its board size from eleven to twelve directors.

7th Dec 2020

A.Celli is partnering with Ihsan Sons with supply of a Doctor Rewinder designed for the removal of any defects in 100 per cent cotton spunlace reels. The machine has been successfully operationalised. Ihsan Sons, the flagship company of the industrial group Ihsan Pakistan, is one of the biggest producers and exporter of bleached absorbent cotton.

7th Dec 2020

Royal DSM, a global science-based company in nutrition, health and sustainable living, has announced a strategic partnership with Team Sunweb. Fresh from winning multiple stages of the Tour de France and dominating the podium of the Giro d’Italia in 2020, the professional road cycling team Sunweb will be known as Team DSM from January 1, 2021.

7th Dec 2020

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry has hailed the government decision to form a dedicated Export Promotion Council for Technical Textiles. Its chairman T Rajkumar said that the government target of achieving a market size of $350 billion by 2024-25 for the textile and apparel sector can only be realized by going beyond the conventional...

4th Dec 2020

VDMA, a German engineering industry association, has announced that the next VDMA technology webtalk is scheduled for December 9, 2020. The topic will be “Technologies for Technical Textiles”. Bena Manasieva Cavus from Georg Sahm, Janpeter Horn & Dennis Behnken from Herzog, and Hagen Lotzmann from Karl Mayer will be the presenters for the event.

4th Dec 2020

Sonntag Fins has collaborated with Sicomin to use its GreenPoxy 33 bio-based epoxy resin for making custom carbon windsurf fins.These fins combine speed, fatigue performance and sustainability for some of the fastest sailors. Each Sonntag fin is custom made, tailored specifically to the user based on an understanding of riding style, physical size and...

4th Dec 2020

The Mann+Hummel Group, a filtration expert, plans to close its main manufacturing facility at Hilton Cross Business Park in Wolverhampton, UK, as it reviews its operational footprint. With this, all manufacture will be relocated within the European Mann+Hummel network. The manufacturing operations are likely to be fully closed by the end of 2022.

4th Dec 2020

Composites Evolution, a UK-based developer, manufacturer and supplier of prepregs for the production of lightweight structures from composite materials, announced that the company has passed their 3-year ISO 9001:2015 re-assessment following a thorough auditing process. ISO 9001 is the international standard for a quality management system.

3rd Dec 2020

The Indian ministry of textiles recently issued a notification inviting proposals from registered exporter associations and trade bodies for setting up a dedicated Export Promotion Council (EPC) for Technical Textiles. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, in a meeting on February 26, 2020, had approved the constitution of such a dedicated EPC.