nylon news

13th Feb 2019

Milliken, a global leader in performance and protective textiles, has opened a new website presenting its diverse textiles portfolio built on 154 years of industry experience and research and development. The website refines Milliken’s performance and protective textile division’s marketplace presence and highlights the history of Milliken textiles.

13th Feb 2019

The 2nd CIRP Conference on Composite Material Parts Manufacturing will be held during October 10-11, 2019 at the AMRC Knowledge Transfer Centre. The conference provides a platform to experts from academia and industry in the area of composite material parts manufacturing to present new technologies and research towards producing ultra-lightweight...

12th Feb 2019

Hexcel’ carbon prepreg patch technology has been selected as a finalist for the JEC Innovation Awards 2019 in the automotive category. Hexcel will display the HexPly carbon patch technology at JEC World 2019, from March 12-14, 2019, among other composite innovations for the automotive, marine, wind energy, and aerospace sectors, in booth J41, pavilion...

12th Feb 2019

Groz-Beckert will display felting and carding product areas at IDEA Miami, a trade fair for nonwovens and technical textiles, which will be held from March 26-28, 2019, in US. Groz-Beckert, a provider of industrial machine needles, fine tools, as well as systems and services for the production and joining of textile fabrics, will be seen in booth 1224.

11th Feb 2019

Use of aluminium matrix composites (AMCs) can improve the efficiency and performance of electric motors, according to research from the Innovate UK ‘Make it Lighter with Less’ R and D competition. A collaborative project under AMC specialist, Alvant achieved a 40 per cent rotor weight saving while increasing the rotor’s power-to-inertia ratio potential.

11th Feb 2019

Chem-Trend, leader in development, manufacturing, and marketing of high-performance release agents, purging compounds, and other process chemical specialties, has set up an advanced research and development laboratory space in Maisach, Germany. The new lab space joins Chem-Trend’s network of laboratories across the globe, enhancing its research...

11th Feb 2019

Victrex has chosen an innovative tooling design and processing technology called Production to Functional Specification (PtFS) from Surface Generation to enhance manufacturing effectiveness to its parts-based mega-programmes, OEM, Tier 1s, and moulding community. The investment will help Victrex increase commercialisation of its parts-based...

8th Feb 2019

Ternua’s Blackcomb mountain ski suit was chosen as best intermediate layer product in the Snow Sports category at the recently held ISPO Munich trade show. This is the third time Ternua has won this award known as the Oscars of sport. In 2016, the ISPO Gold Award went to its ‘Terranova’ and ‘South River’ jackets and in 2017, it went to its ‘Craddle’...

8th Feb 2019

Domtar Corporation, a provider of fibre-based products like specialty and packaging papers, absorbent hygiene products, has reported net earnings of $87 million for Q4 2018 compared to net loss of $386 million for Q4 2017. Sales for Q4 2018 were $1.4 billion. For FY2018, net earnings amounted to $283 million compared to net loss of $258 million for...