leathers news

28th Mar 2019

Viscose fibre manufacturer Kelheim Fibres will present solutions for high-performance insulation materials, disinfectant wipes and supply chain at this year’s Techtextil to be held at Frankfurt, Germany from May 14-17. With dry short cut viscose fibres, Kelheim saves energy and the fibre’s specific properties allow for permanent dimensional stability.

28th Mar 2019

The Chinese branch of the Austrian Starlinger Group has been producing circular looms for plastic fabrics in China since 2006. In autumn 2018, Starlinger Taicang reached a milestone with the 10,000th circular loom. With more and more machines being manufactured every year, the factory’s annual production is presently at around 1,000 machines.

27th Mar 2019

The University of Edinburgh and commercial partner Babcock International will build a £2.4 million engineering research facility in Scotland, known as Fastblade, to speed development of materials and structures for tidal energy, transport, etc. Fastblade will be first facility in the world designed to carry out large-scale accelerated testing of tidal...

27th Mar 2019

A.Celli Nonwovens has received the first order from Texhong Textile Group for the installation of a fully automated warehouse at Texhong’s plant in Vietnam. With this A.Celli has taken responsibility for the entire downstream section of production line: from wrapping-packaging and storage in the warehouse, data tracking, to preparation of roll for...

27th Mar 2019

The Fibre Placement Centre (FPC) of SGL Carbon and Fraunhofer IGCV, at the SGL site in Meitingen, has completed one year. The centre has now been joined by two new partners Cevotec and Coriolis Composites. The plan is to set up a Samba Pro Prepreg processing line with Cevotec which will complement the FPC's services with the Fibre Patch Placement...

27th Mar 2019

Arville will showcase its integrated manufacturing capabilities, covering design, weaving, coating and fabrication of technical textiles, specifically engineered for a wide range of end applications in defence, aerospace, pharmaceutical, automotive and industrial sectors at Techtextil 2019, an event for innovators, to be held during May 14-17 in...

27th Mar 2019

Edana, the international association serving the nonwovens and related industries, has announced the programme of speakers and topics for the 8th edition of Filtrex Europe. The leading nonwoven filtration conference and exhibition will be held on May 14 and 15, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. It is known as one of the leading platforms for the filtration...

26th Mar 2019

Ahlstrom-Munksjö glass and carbon fibre composite team has been able to develop a carbon fibre based unidirectional (UD) fabric. In a UD fabric, the majority of fibres run in one direction only. The new fabric developed, can be laminated to 165 layers or even more in one shot. The previous record of infusing carbon fibre unidirectional fabric was 120...

26th Mar 2019

Scientists at Kaist have developed a textile-based wearable display module technology that is washable and does not require an external power source, overcoming the problem in smart clothing with regard to its power sources and moisture permeability, which causes the devices to malfunction. The research has been published in Energy and Environmental...