leathers news

30th May 2019

Sandler AG celebrated its 140th company anniversary on May 10, together with 240 guests from the political, economic and social spheres. The company announced that over the next two years, it plans to invest a total of €80 million at the company headquarters in Schwarzenbach/Saale, Germany and Sandler Nonwoven Corporation in Perry, Georgia, US.

29th May 2019

Johns Manville (JM), a leading manufacturer and marketer of premium-quality building and specialty products and a Berkshire Hathaway company, has named John Vasuta the new president of the company’s Engineered Products business. Vasuta will lead a global business that manufactures premium-quality glass fibre nonwovens, polyester spunbonds and glass...

29th May 2019

Lydall Technical Nonwovens, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Texel Technical Materials, has announced that it has completed the sale of Texel Geosol (Geosol) on May 9, 2019 to FC Géosynthétiques (FC). Geosol installs geosynthetic products in the civil engineering and environmental protection sectors, principally within the province of Quebec,...

29th May 2019

Archroma, a global leader in colour and specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, has launched Fadex AS New, a new ‘super UV protector’ to make automotive and transportation textiles even more resistant to light. The new ‘super UV protector’ was presented by the company at the recently held Techtextil exhibition on May 15, 2019 at Frankfurt,...

28th May 2019

The Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI) has manufactured and fit-checked its first carbon fibre 3D printed part for the United States Air Force – a first aid kit restraint strap for the B-1 aircraft at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. UAMMI collaborated with Impossible Objects and used its printer to create the part.

28th May 2019

Durkopp Adler’s pioneering new sewing system: the M-Type Delta was awarded the Innovation Award in the category ‘New Technology’, at the recently held Texprocess trade fair in Frankfurt, Germany. The new M-Type Delta sewing system is a fully digitised industrial sewing machine for materials such as leather, upholstery and technical textiles.

28th May 2019

Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed a highly flexible, high-energy textile lithium battery that offers more stable, durable and safe energy supply for wearable electronics with applications in healthcare monitoring, intelligent textiles, smartphones, Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking and Internet of Things...

28th May 2019

Vetron|Typical presented the newest sewing and welding solutions, an operator friendly workplace design, the v_sion product-management-system (all-in-one industry 4.0 solution), and 3D-sewing and welding-systems, at the recently concluded Texprocess and Techtextil fairs at Frankfurt, Germany. A total of 1,818 exhibitors from 59 countries visited the...

27th May 2019

Century Tool, a Tooling Tech group company and a composites tooling specialist, is expanding its compression mould making operations by installing a new FPT Ronin EVO 3+2-axis horizontal milling machine. The new machine can handle a workpiece size of upto 343-in long x 100-in deep x 120-in tall, making it capable of handling very large moulds of either ...