leathers news

24th Jul 2019

Solvay will showcase developments in thermoplastic composites, a light-weighting material that enhances the group's sustainable mobility objectives and enables resource-efficient solutions for customers in aerospace, automotive, and oil and gas, at K 2019. It will also present a new high temperature polyetheretherketone (PEEK) polymer, an industry...

24th Jul 2019

Michelman will display its new line of Hydrosize Carbon at CAMX 2019. The composites and advanced materials exhibition will be held from September 23-26, 2019, in California. Michelman is a developer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for industry, offering solutions for the coatings, printing & packaging and industrial manufacturing...

23rd Jul 2019

SGL Carbon has delivered its millionth composite leaf spring to Volvo Cars, reaching a milestone in the history of serial production of fibre composite components. The leaf spring is manufactured at the Innkreis site in Austria. The leading German company's portfolio ranges from carbon and graphite materials and solutions to carbon fibres and...

23rd Jul 2019

Texfelt has opened new a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Bradford to produce Springbond, a new eco-engineered carpet underlay made from upcycled plastic bottles. The facility, opened with an investment of £9million, is home to new machinery and modern technology, enabling Texfelt to enhance resilience and acoustic performance of products.

22nd Jul 2019

E.J. Krause & Associates (EJK) held a nonwovens exhibition and conference, ANDTEX, in Thailand recently. Nonwovens and engineered material producers, researchers, and industry leaders gathered to explore new business opportunities for nonwovens and disposable hygiene technology at the Southeast Asia nonwovens and disposable hygiene technology expo.

22nd Jul 2019

DH Sutherland, a distribution partner for L&L products and developer of adhesives, coatings, and sealants, is exhibiting L&L products' latest adhesive technologies for the composites industry at CAMX expo, in booth J53. The sixth edition of the composites and advanced materials exhibition will be held from September 24-26, 2019, in Anaheim, California.

22nd Jul 2019

Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), Chicago, is presenting Boeing's new Starliner spacesuit as part of its Wired to Wear exhibit, the first-ever exhibit dedicated to the future of wearable technology. The groundbreaking new material Boeing and University of North Dakota are working on to lengthen astronauts' time on the lunar surface is also at...

20th Jul 2019

Haydale has announced that its graphene-enhanced prepreg has been incorporated in the composite tooling and automotive body panels in the new Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) Mono R. Haydale is a global solutions company from the US, enhancing applications of materials by changing their essential properties using graphene and nano-materials.

19th Jul 2019

Renolit Gor, manufacturer of thermoplastic and thermoformable materials for the global automotive market, has set up a facility to produce clean, safe Renolit Tecnogor thermoformable sheets and rolls, and other lightweight, 100 per cent recyclable, sustainable products in the Renolit Composites range, in India. It is the first such facility outside...