leathers news

20th Dec 2018

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess has planned to strengthen its global asset base for flame retardant additives with investments of around €200 million over the next three years. The company runs a strongly backward integrated production network for bromine and phosphorous based flame retardants with plants in the US, Germany, France and UK.

20th Dec 2018

Textile Instruments has won the World Textile Information Network (WTiN) Future Textile Awards for Innovative Start-up at the 2018 Innovate Textile & Apparel Conference (ITA) held in Amsterdam, Holland. At ITA, Textile Instruments showed a novel concept in smart textiles: a washable fabric that monitors health-related vitals without wires and battery...

19th Dec 2018

SPESA (Sewn Products Equipment & Suppliers of the Americas) will hold its Advancements in Manufacturing Technologies Conference at the Raleigh convention centre in Raleigh, North Carolina, on February 27, 2019. The conference will be held in conjunction with the 2019 edition of Techtextil North America, the trade fair for technical textiles and...

19th Dec 2018

Emilia Peltola has been named as the vice president, corporate communications & IR at Suominen, supplier of nonwovens for wipes, hygiene products, and medical applications, as of February 11, 2019. She will be located in Helsinki, Finland and will report to the president and CEO (interim). She will succeed Anu Heinonen, who resigned in October 2018.

19th Dec 2018

Kordsa, reshaping the industry with its innovative technologies, has developed a new generation fast press curable resin called CM14, which eliminates waterspot and whitespot problems, thus providing high visual clarity. The company is the global player of tire, construction reinforcement, and composites technologies market, headquartered in Turkey.

18th Dec 2018

A team of materials scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been able to increase the strength of composites several-fold with an interface that is modified by a molecular layer of “nanoglue, by oscillating loads at certain frequencies. The team included researchers from multiple disciplines, based in New York, Virginia, and Grenoble, France.

18th Dec 2018

Everyday use products, which are made using the latest polyurethane technologies from Everberg-based global chemical company Huntsman, have become the main attraction at a design exhibition at the Design Museum Gent, Belgium. Fibre-Fixed: Composites in Design, open until April 21, 2019, showcases products that use fibre-reinforced composite materials.

17th Dec 2018

Monadnock Non-Wovens LLC (MNW) has announced the appointment of Ray Whitby as technical sales manager effective January 2, 2019. Ray will be joining MNW after working for nearly 20 years with Transweb developing and marketing some of the most sophisticated and evolved surface charged enhanced media for the HEPA, respirator and filtration markets.

14th Dec 2018

Victrex is celebrating 40 years of Peek, a high-performance polymer (HPP). Victrex drove the success of the versatile, breakthrough polymer, developing new markets and applications. This helped transform lives, entire industries and the business operations of the company itself. The company believes the potential for further innovation remains huge.