leathers news

10th Dec 2018

Boeing and ELG Carbon Fibre have partnered to recycle excess aerospace-grade composite materials to be used by other companies to make products such as electronic accessories and automotive equipment. The agreement will cover excess carbon fibre from 11 Boeing airplane manufacturing sites and will reduce solid waste by more than one million pounds a...

10th Dec 2018

Valmet has been selected by Spanish company Papel Aralar as supplier for a new nonwovens rewinder to be installed in the existing PM 4 lines at the latter’s plant in Amézqueta, Guipúzcoa, Spain. The new installation includes a Valmet Focus Reelite T15 E rewinder - the last stage of the innovative scalability concept of the Reelite T15 rewinder.

7th Dec 2018

Teijin has announced that on November 29, 2018, it acquired 25,000 shares or 20 per cent of the outstanding shares of Elitac, a start-up company that develops textiles and clothing integrated with wearable sensing devices, from the Netherlands. The shares were purchased through Teijin Aramid, the core company of Teijin’s aramid business, in the...

7th Dec 2018

Shape Composites, supplier of thermoset and thermoplastic composite performs, has developed a new process for high-volume composite parts manufacture. Recent improvements to the way in which thermoplastic carbon fibre parts are press moulded, has resulted in a significant reduction in the time taken to mould a carbon fibre part in a closed metallic...

7th Dec 2018

Hanwha Total Petrochemical, a joint venture between Total and Hanwha, has invested nearly $500 million in setting up a new polypropylene plant and thereby further expand its Daesan integrated refining and petrochemical complex in South Korea. With this investment, Daesan will be able to capture margins across the propylene-polypropylene value chain.

7th Dec 2018

Hexcel Corporation, a leading advanced composites company, has appointed Colleen Pritchett as president – aerospace, Americas. Pritchett joins Hexcel from EI du Pont de Nemours and company where she served for more than 20 years most recently as global business director and president of the electronics & imaging advanced printing business in Taiwan.

6th Dec 2018

BeBop Sensors, leader in smart fabric sensor technology, has got the Time Magazine’s Best Inventions 2018 Award for the Forte Wireless Data Glove. The first fully featured affordable wireless data glove to incorporate haptics and super accurate rapid sensing is perfect for industrial, medical, human factors, virtual reality, gaming, and design sectors.

6th Dec 2018

Fibercon, the consolidation system developed by Dieffenbacher and Fraunhofer ICT, has been named the winner of the AVK Innovation Award in the “Innovative Processes” category. The German Federation of Reinforced Plastics (AVK Industrievereinigung Verstärkte Kunststoffe eV) grants the AVK Innovation Award to pioneering innovations in composites every...

6th Dec 2018

Covestro, a leading supplier of high-performance resins, has accelerated the expansion of its Thermoplastic Polyurethanes business (TPU) by raising its stake in the joint venture DIC Covestro Polymer Ltd (DCP) from 50 to 80 per cent. The investment is part of its expansion of global TPU business. Closing of the deal is planned for early second quarter...