nylon news

6th May 2019

Ahlstrom-Munksjo, Freudenberg, Math2Market, and Welspun India have all been shortlisted for the 2019 Filtrex Innovation Award by Edana. The winner will be announced at Filtrex, the leading nonwovens filter media event, which will be held on May 14-15, 2019, in Berlin. Edana is the international association for the nonwovens and related industries.

6th May 2019

Biodegradable disinfecting wipes, soft baby wipes made of 100 per cent repurposed cotton blended fabric and a new product category to improve skin appearance and texture of posterior are the finalists for INDA’s 2019 World of Wipes (WOW) Innovation Award. The winner will be selected at WOW International Conference to be held from June 24-27 at Atlanta, ...

3rd May 2019

Kordsa, global player in tire, construction reinforcement and composite technologies markets, participated in Ceramics Expo 2019 held in Ohio, US recently. Acquired by Kordsa in 2018, Fabric Development Inc (FDI) and Textile Products Inc (TPI) represented Kordsa at the Expo and introduced Kordsa’s high-performance textile structures for the aerospace...

3rd May 2019

Composites UK, the trade association for UK composites industry, has released the programme for its new ‘Composites 4.0’ event to be held on June 4 at the MTC, Coventry, UK. The event will look at Industry 4.0 and the opportunities it holds for UK composites companies. Speakers at the event include IBM, Make UK, Siemens, Mouldbox, Airborne, Element...

3rd May 2019

International technology group Andritz reported sales of €1,489.2 million in Q1 2019, up by 15.4 per cent from €1,291 million reported in Q1 2018. Order intake amounted to just under €1.7 billion and was approximately 8 per cent higher than previous year’s reference period. With the exception of hydro, all business areas were able to achieve an...

3rd May 2019

Toray Industries, an integrated chemical industry group, has developed a sterilised type of clothing for use in cleanrooms called Livmoa CL, the latest iteration of its Livmoa series of disposable protective wear, with cooperation from the research & development center for cell therapy at the Foundation for Biomedical Research and Innovation (FBRI) at...

3rd May 2019

Uster and its German agent, Elmatex, will display the Uster EVS automated fabric inspection systems at Techtextil expo, in hall 3.0, booth D05. The trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens will be held from May 14-17, 2019, in Frankfurt, Germany. The company will present the Uster EVS Q-BAR and other members of the Uster EVS fabric inspection...

2nd May 2019

Kraussmaffei has signed a share purchase agreement with Pultrex Ltd, based in Manningtree, Essex/UK, and thus strengthened its system competence in the area of pultrusion effective this year. Pultrex is one of the leading providers of pultrusion, pullwinding and filament winding systems, and is itself a manufacturer of pultrusion profiles.

2nd May 2019

BFI will present innovations to help producers extract the most out of their production equipment and pursue opportunities in automotive, geotextiles, flooring, filtration, upholstery, concrete reinforcement and hygiene, at Techtextil 2019 during May 14-17, 2019. The display will include polyolefin staple fibre UltraBond and high tenacity fibres HT8.