leathers news

3rd Apr 2018

AGV, marking its 70th anniversary since production of its first helmet, has unveiled the Sportmodular to the North American market, a new standard in the modular helmet category that shatters previous standards of safety, comfort, and design. Search for a perfect helmet almost ends in the Sportmodular, the only modular helmet built entirely of carbon...

31st Mar 2018

Advanced composite materials manufacturer Hexcel has opened a manufacturing facility at the MidParc Free Trade Zone in Casablanca. At the facility, Hexcel transforms lightweight honeycomb materials into engineered core parts that provide structural reinforcement for aerospace applications including aircraft structures, engine nacelles and helicopter...

29th Mar 2018

TeXtreme has unveiled the ±45° Grid fabric, a new addition to their line of Spread Tow products. The new version of TeXtreme Spread Tow fabric will broaden the ability to optimise Spread Tow solutions for new applications and markets. TeXtreme Spread Tow carbon reinforcements use spread tows to produce optimised reinforcements for ultra-light...

28th Mar 2018

The consolidated revenues of Pegas Nonwovens for fiscal 2017 grew 7.0 per cent y-o-y to a total of €220.8 million. The rise was related to the growth in sales volumes resulting from the launch of new production capacities. Revenues were also positively affected by the development in polymer prices, which grew by an average of more than 10 per cent...

28th Mar 2018

Metyx Group signs agreement with the Gaston County Economic Development Commission in North Carolina to get a manufacturing facility for its Metyx USA technical textiles division. The site includes 30 acres of land and existing buildings and 12,000 square metres of covered space, in Ranlo, Gaston County, a town approximately 28 miles west of Charlotte...

27th Mar 2018

Lear Corporation, one of the world’s leading suppliers of automotive seating systems and electrical systems (E-Systems), has announced the opening of the expansion of its automotive seating structures manufacturing facility in Valenca, Portugal. Lear maintains 257 locations in 39 countries around the globe and employs approximately 165,000 employees.

27th Mar 2018

The Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International School of Textiles and Management (SVPITM) and the department of handlooms and textiles, Government of Tamil Nadu, are set to jointly conduct a series of workshops on the topic of medical textiles. The first phase, out of three, of the workshops will be held from April 5 to 8, 2018 at SVPITM, Coimbatore.

26th Mar 2018

W. L. Gore & Associates, a global materials science firm, has joined hands with digital health start-up, Bonbouton, to explore material solutions in advanced sensor technology and enable practical smart fabrics for digital health applications. Bonbouton designs inkjet-printed, low-cost graphene wearable sensors for constant and wireless health...

26th Mar 2018

Saertex, that produces non-crimp fabrics made of glass, carbon, and aramid fibres for customers worldwide, has launched Saertex Smart Defect Control system, an unique process innovation for its multi-axial high-end carbon-fibre fabric, at the recently held JEC World 2018, the global tradeshow for the composites sector, from March 6 to 8, 2018, in Paris.