nylon news

7th Oct 2017

Lear Corporation, a leading global supplier of automotive seating and electrical systems, has broken ground on a new seat manufacturing facility on the former site of the historic Buick City complex in Flint, Michigan. Lear’s Flint seating plant will be the first major automotive supplier manufacturing facility constructed in Flint in more than 30...

7th Oct 2017

Gurit will transfer its UK prepreg business to its Spanish prepreg production facility by summer 2018. The move follows the technology change from the use of pre-impregnated fibres to infusion technology for the production of wind blades in the global wind energy industry over the past 10 years, due to which Gurit faced non-utilisation in China and...

6th Oct 2017

Porcher Industries, leader in technical textiles and thermoplastic composite solutions, has acquired Interglas Technologies’ operations including workforce, assets, infrastructure and brand rights from the Preiss Daimler Group. Interglas Technologies is a German producer of technical fabrics for aeronautic, industrial, electrical and building...

6th Oct 2017

Hexcel Corporation, leading advanced composites company, has completed the acquisition of the shares of Structil, a French producer and supplier of high-performance composites to the aerospace, defence and industrial markets. Structil has been a joint venture between Safran Ceramics and Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation, formerly Mitsubishi Rayon...

5th Oct 2017

Valmet has introduced the new generation polarised forming fabrics, revolutionising water drainage in the wire section. Forming fabrics have an essential role in water drainage in the wire section of a paper machine. Polarised structure of the forming fabrics improves machine runnability and performance, taking customer satisfaction to an excellent...

5th Oct 2017

PolyQuest and Straterra Holdings have established Fiber Innovators International (a joint venture between the respective companies) that has acquired the former DuraFiber Technologies facility in Grover, North Carolina. The facility produces medium and high tenacity industrial polyester filament threads used in high quality applications in North...

4th Oct 2017

A team of UMass Lowell researchers in partnership with a research and development company has created new, cost-effective textiles laden with sensors and optical fibres that can be used to monitor the structural health and integrity of vital infrastructures, including buildings and skyscrapers, roadways, bridges, tunnels, railway tracks, dams and...

4th Oct 2017

The 10th edition of the JEC Asia International Composites Event 2017 will kick-off from November 1 in Seoul. More than 40 speakers from Asia, Europe and America will participate in the event hosted by the JEC Group, one of the leading composites organisations in the world. The three-day programme will be an international platform for networking.

4th Oct 2017

South Korea’s Hyosung is expected to become part of the trillion won club of companies with an operating profit of more than a trillion won for two years in a row. The company, with stakes in textiles, chemicals, industrial materials, construction, trading and IT, joined the club last year with an annual operating profit of 1.016 trillion won.