nylon news

27th Jun 2019

Porcher Sport, the sports and leisure division of Porcher Industries and a leader in high performance fabrics for aerial and nautical sports, will unveil innovations for the outdoor equipment and apparel sectors at Outdoor by ISPO 2019, in hall B6, booth 409. The trade fair for the global outdoor industry will be held from June 30- July 3, 2019, in...

26th Jun 2019

Ikea and adidas have joined hands to explore the connections between living spaces and sport, and how both can adapt to help create healthy habits. The partnership will bring together designers from both companies to exchange knowledge, insights and ideas to imagine ways to make working out at home easier. The focus of the exercise will be young women.

26th Jun 2019

KLM and Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) have joined hands to work towards making aviation more sustainable. KLM will contribute to TU Delft's research into an innovative flight concept known as the "Flying-V", which is based on a different approach to aircraft design that anticipates and supports sustainable long-distance flight in the future.

26th Jun 2019

Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) have developed a process to fabricate superelastic and fatigue resistant hard carbon aerogels with nanofibrous network structure by using resorcinol-formaldehyde resin as a hard carbon source. The research has been inspired by the flexibility and rigidity of natural spider silks...

26th Jun 2019

Velocity Composites, the leading supplier of advanced composite material kits, has partnered with Wesco Aircraft Holdings, Inc (Wesco), a leading independent distributor and provider of comprehensive supply chain management services to the global aerospace industry, to support the expansion of Wesco’s product offering into composite management services.

25th Jun 2019

A meeting of people's representatives and senior revenue department officials in Kerala's Fort Kochi recently decided to immediately set up geotextile tube walls at Companyppady, Bazaar and Velankanni North in Chellanam panchayat to stop further erosion of the shores and prevent flooding of homes. Those are stretches in the panchayat worst hit by...

25th Jun 2019

Aviation industry supplier Premium Aerotec is making progress in developing world’s first thermoplastic pressure bulkhead through work by a multidisciplinary research and development team. The aim is to prepare the thermoplastic joining technology of resistance welding for use in serial production. The demonstrator was recently exhibited in Paris Air...

25th Jun 2019

Representatives of ZAL Center for Applied Aeronautical Research and National Research Council of Canada (NRC) signed a framework agreement at the Paris Air Show (June 17-23, 2019). In 2017, the institutions launched two joint research projects regarding acoustics in aircraft cabin and composite fibre materials. Now, the cooperation is being expanded...

25th Jun 2019

Medline’s Micro-Kill Bleach Germicidal Bleach Wipes have become the first infection control product to be cleared by EPA to kill Candida auris (C. auris), a multidrug resistant fungus, found in hospitals. The announcement solidifies Micro-Kill Bleach Germicidal Bleach Wipes’ place in Medline’s industry-leading portfolio of infection prevention products.