nylon news

14th Jun 2018

Taiwan’s two major garment suppliers, Quang Viet Enterprise Co and Makalot Industrial Co, are investing in smartwear technologies, say top company executives. While the former has developed a smart jacket that integrates temperature control and GPS tracking functions, Makalot showcased at the recent Computex Taipei show its functional wear featuring...

13th Jun 2018

Teledyne CML Composites has got a contract with Airbus SAS in Madrid for the “Life Of Programme” supply of composite wing components and assemblies on the new A350 commercial airliner. It includes composite parts for both the already popular A350-900 and the new larger A350-1000 aircraft wings that are manufactured at Airbus’s facility in Broughton,...

12th Jun 2018

Argosy International and Solvay have entered into a definitive agreement to enable direct service of Solvay’s advanced materials business in the Asia Pacific region. Argosy and Solvay will work closely to ensure a seamless transition for all customers and will be contacting customer to discuss the particulars of this transition over the next two months.

12th Jun 2018

PolyOne, a global provider of specialised polymer materials, services and solutions, is taking over PlastiComp, an advanced engineered materials innovator and producer of specialty composites. PlastiComp's 50 employees and its design and production facility in Winona, Minnesota will join PolyOne as part of the Specialty Engineered Materials segment.

12th Jun 2018

SHD Composite Materials has unveiled PS200, a revolutionary bio-based resin, which has been designed specifically to solve the problem of the fire risk that lithium ion batteries pose. Primarily for the manufacture of electric vehicle battery boxes, PS200 is available on a number of reinforcements and capable of autoclave, oven or press cure.

11th Jun 2018

Boeing is working with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) to built a research facility Boeing Sheffield. The facility is the first to be built in Europe for Boeing, which chose Sheffield based on its longstanding partnership with the AMRC, its skilled workforce and investment in research, training and development.

11th Jun 2018

DuPont Personal Protection, a business segment of DuPont Safety & Construction, has launched DuPont Tychem gloves, range of gloves designed for chemical exposure protection. DuPont Tychem gloves help provide the worker protection required in hazardous work environments. Now workers can wear Tychem garments with Tychem gloves for a complete protection...

11th Jun 2018

Loepfe’s WeftMaster Falcon-i yarn control solution is in high demand after its display at the recently held Techtextil show in US. The market for technical textiles in the production of fabrics for airbags, tire cords, filtration materials, architectural fabrics, and sailcloth, is growing steadily. Quality control is an important factor in these fields.

11th Jun 2018

Several metal parts in Indian satellites will be significantly lighter in future when these are replaced by composite textiles manufactured by the Ahmedabad Textile Industry Research Association (ATIRA). The recently-inaugurated Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion Centre (VARIC) in Ahmedabad will manufacture these spacecraft parts using carbon composites.