leathers news

18th Aug 2018

Lear, a global supplier of automotive seating and electrical systems, has set up a new manufacturing seating facility in Flint, Michigan. The facility will build seats for just-in-time delivery to the nearby General Motors Flint Assembly plant, and the General Motors Fort Wayne plant in Indiana. It will employ around 600 team members by the end of 2019.

17th Aug 2018

Scientists at Deakin University have developed textile recycling methods that transform denim jeans into artificial cartilage for joint reconstruction, addressing the issue of textile waste simultaneously. They have been able to dissolve denim and manipulate it into an aerogel – a low density material with a range of uses including cartilage...

16th Aug 2018

MIT scientists have been able to incorporate high speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and diode photodetectors, into fibres which have been woven into soft, washable fabrics and made into communication systems. This marks attaining of a long-sought goal of creating “smart” fabrics with semiconductor...

16th Aug 2018

International technology Group Andritz will showcase innovative nonwovens production processes and textile finishing technologies at CINTE 2018 in Shanghai during September 4-6, 2018. Andritz is one of the leaders in advanced technologies for drylaid, spunjet, thermobonding, wetlaid, and converting processes for absorbent hygiene products.

14th Aug 2018

Buildtech and mobiltech sectors will be at focus at this year’s Cinte Techtextil China, with a number of leading global and Chinese brands exhibiting to eager buyers. The show will provide a strong barometer of the state of the global technical textiles industry, and in particular which sectors in Asia as a whole, and China specifically, are performing ...

14th Aug 2018

Solvay, Premium Aerotec and Faurecia Clean Mobility have unveiled IRG CosiMo (Industry Research Group: Composites for Sustainable Mobility), the industry’s first private consortium focusing on development of materials and process technologies to enable high volume production of thermoplastic composites for both the aerospace and automotive markets.

13th Aug 2018

A T-shirt that can change colour to complement mood (and help one pare down wardrobe), and an apron that transforms into a dress and has interchangeable pockets with high-tech functionality – are the new concepts presented by six students, three each from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and FIT, as part of the first FIT/MIT Summer Workshop.

13th Aug 2018

Royal Engineered Composites, a manufacturer of advanced composite structures for the aerospace community, has announced the addition of 65 positions to its manufacturing facility in Minden, NE, by the end of 2018. The jobs are being created due to a 300 per cent increase in production of parts for a commercial, single aisle aircraft manufactured in...

13th Aug 2018

Shape has pressed the first batch of parts that combine short fibre Sheet Moulding Compound (SMC) over an optimised, reinforced, long fibre carbon ShapeTex preform. Shape Machining specialises in machining metallic tools, epoxy tooling block patterns, Rohacell foams and the trimming of carbon fibre parts for the automotive, motorsport and aerospace...