leathers news

19th Nov 2018

Advanced composites specialist Gurit Holding AG has launched Ampreg 31 and Ampreg 36 resins and ancillaries that prioritise user health and safety. Featuring a robust resin matrix, they enable excellent mechanical and thermal properties of laminates for the manufacture of large composite structures in the marine, wind and construction industries.

19th Nov 2018

Arville is boosting its specialist fabric engineering capabilities with a suite of new machinery worth over £1.2 million. Arville are specialists in the field of technical textiles, operating a team of highly experienced professionals who have expert knowledge of fabric design, weaving technology, coating and finishing, as well as product fabrication.

19th Nov 2018

Clearing a major road block in the development of wearable biosensors for health monitoring, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst led by materials chemist Trisha L Andrew say they have developed a process for making a charge-storing system that is easily integrated into clothing for “embroidering a charge-storing pattern onto any...

17th Nov 2018

The Indian Technical Textile Association (ITTA) is all set to host an international conference on the latest innovations in technology and machinery for technical textiles on January 19, 2019 in Mumbai. The conference will bring new breakthroughs in manufacturing technology and machinery for producing innovative technical textile products.

17th Nov 2018

Asahi Kasei has been honoured by the German Design Council for its fully driveable electric vehicle AKXY with the German Design Award 2019, in the category ‘Excellent Product Design – Conceptional Transportation’ under ‘Special Mention’. The predicate ‘Special Mention’ acknowledges works with a design that offers particularly successful solutions.

16th Nov 2018

International technology group Andritz has received an order from Grupo SARI (Rubi Industrial) to supply a neXline needlepunch line for the production of needlepunched felts. The line will process several types of raw material such as polyester, polypropylene, bi-component fibres and viscose to produce needlepunched felts for technical markets.

16th Nov 2018

PolyOne Corporation, a premier provider of specialised polymer materials, services and solutions, has announced the hiring of Christopher L Pederson as senior vice president, president of specialty engineered materials. Michael A Garratt had been serving in this role on an interim basis and will now resume his prior position responsibilities.

15th Nov 2018

PFNonwovens has recorded consolidated revenues of CZK 4,529.9 million in the first nine months fiscal 2018, up by 1.9 per cent year-on-year. The increase in the price of polymers had a positive effect on the year-on-year comparison of revenues. Sales volumes also rose in line with the increase in production due to new production capacity launched in...

15th Nov 2018

Kordsa, a global player of tyre, construction reinforcement and composites technologies market, is among 50 most sustainable companies listed in Borsa Istanbul for the period between November 2018-October 2019. Having improved its ratings on environmental criteria, Kordsa is now in BIST Sustainability Index for the third year in a row, this year.