leathers news

27th Jul 2019

Gazprom Neft and SIBUR have become full owners of Poliom LLC polypropylene plant in Omsk, with the Gazprom Neft—SIBUR joint venture—Sibgazpolymer JSC—signing an agreement on the acquisition of a 50-per cent interest in the charter capital of Poliom LLC, owned by the Titan Group. Poliom LLC will be managed jointly by Gazprom Neft and SIBUR.

26th Jul 2019

Lenzing AG, a producer of pulp and specialty fibres from renewable raw material wood, has concluded its expansion and modernisation drive at the pulp plant at the Lenzing site. The company invested €60 million for this purpose, increasing production capacities for dissolving pulp extracted from beech wood from 300,000 to 320,000 tons per year.

26th Jul 2019

Freudenberg Performance Materials, Germany-based specialist for technical textiles, is taking the help of Voith to make the existing air system at its non-woven production facility more energy efficient. The two have signed a contract which covers the programming and retrofitting of the control unit and air ducts with the necessary hardware and...

26th Jul 2019

Solvay Group has been a leading provider of composites for the space industry. Solvay materials were on board the Apollo 11 mission that sent humans to the Moon for the first time. Currently, space programmes such as Atlas V, Delta IV, Pegasus and Vega, as well as new launch vehicle programmes being developed, use Solvay ablatives for their launch...

25th Jul 2019

Nanowear has announced the clinical launch of NanoSENSE, a heart failure management and alert diagnostic validation study. The study will initially be conducted at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Centre and Hackensack Meridian Health Systems. Nanowear is a developer of patented nanosensor technology with applications in cardiac and other...

25th Jul 2019

Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei is expanding its plant for Lamous artificial suede in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan, by 4 million m2 / year, increasing total production capacity to 14 million m2 / year upon completion in 2021. Construction is currently in progress to raise existing capacity of 6 million m2 / year to 10 million m2 / year.

25th Jul 2019

Kordsa, a subsidiary of Sabancı Holding and a global player in the reinforcement technologies market, has acquired US-based Axiom Materials. The acquisition of $181 million has paved the way for Kordsa to be the only worldwide qualified manufacturer of oxide-oxide ceramic matrix composites. Axiom Materials is a progressive composite materials...

24th Jul 2019

In response to increased demand for its flame resistant products, Mount Vernon FR has announced expansion of operations at its Trion, Georgia, facility. The additional 4,500 square feet of production space will be home to new state-of-the-art FR treatment equipment that will increase its production and finished fabric capacity by 20 per cent.

24th Jul 2019

Aditya Birla Chemicals Thailand, a manufacturer of bulk and specialty chemicals and viscose filament yarn, has acquired Recyclamine technology from chemical technology start-up Connora. The US-based company, Connora is the pioneer of recyclable epoxy resin technology, based on a novel proprietary polyamine synthesis platform called Recyclamine.