leathers news

21st Jan 2019

Durashine, the high-end solution dyed acrylic fibre from Thai Acrylic Fibre Co (TAF), lightened up the recently concluded Heimtextil in Frankfurt with 10 new shades, especially developed for premium end furniture market. The new colours were developed based on the upcoming design trends, demands from the fabric makers and insights from the key...

19th Jan 2019

Supield, creator of the thin and warm jacket line, S Kistler, has attained the figure of $100,000 on Kickstarter. The Supield team has decided to add a new aerogel insulated jacket and aerogel insulated gloves for backers to its existing offering - both made by the material inspired by the NASA spacesuits. Supield is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

18th Jan 2019

Market intelligence sessions, where industry experts present actionable data, key drivers and insights for business opportunities in critical regions, would be the highlight at the upcoming IDEA 2019, a triennial global event for nonwovens & engineered fabrics. The event, to be organised by INDA, would be held from March 25-28 in Florida, US.

18th Jan 2019

Hexagon, a leader in digital solutions, has taken over Etalon, a provider of equipment calibration solutions. Etalon’s solutions continuously monitor and initiate compensation of machine tools, measuring machines, robots and structures to ensure dimensional accuracy of manufactured parts. Etalon’s portfolio strengthen Hexagon’s calibration solution...

18th Jan 2019

Techtextil has announced that it has opened the entries for Techtextil Innovation Award, honouring outstanding ideas in the field of technical textiles including, for the first time, ideas focussing on sustainability. Techtextil, the international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens, will be held from May 14-17, 2019, in Germany.

17th Jan 2019

Indorama Ventures Limited (IVL) will exhibit its CoolVisions brand of dyeable polypropylene filament and staple at the upcoming OR Winter Market/Snow Show in Denver this month. In addition, visitors to the CoolVisions/Indorama booth 55034-UL will discover new fabrics featuring IVL's IP intelligent performance range of specialty polyesters like Ecorama...

17th Jan 2019

Velox, an IMCD company, has formed distribution partnership with global company Porcher Industries in territories like Benelux, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Spain/Portugal. The agreement includes complete product range of Porcher Industries, such as glass yarn fabrics (coated or greige), woven carbon fabrics and thermoplastics...

17th Jan 2019

Strongwell, the world’s leading pultruder of fibre reinforced polymer composites, has signed an agreement with Pipespain Sl for the distribution of Strongwell’s Extren fiberglass structural shapes and Plate, Safrail fiberglass handrail systems, and Duradek and Duragrid Phenolic pultruded fiberglass gratings in the countries of Spain and Portugal.

16th Jan 2019

In a first individual project which is currently in preparation, SGL Carbon will supply fabrics for structural components in Airbus helicopters. The two companies have defined the framework conditions for the cooperation in a joint agreement that regulates the basic provision and further development of innovative carbon and fibreglass materials.