technology textiles

29th Jun 2021

Leading engineering group, Nèos International, is setting up its group headquarters in Derby. The move will also create a permanent home for the group’s new specialist composite facility, run by subsidiary, Nèos Composites – creating up to 150 jobs and technical apprenticeships in the city, and hundreds more through indirect supply chain employment.

28th Jun 2021

Integrated Polymer Solutions (IPS), a portfolio company of Arcline Investment Management, has taken over Swift Textile Metalizing (STM), a designer and manufacturer of highly engineered metalised fabrics used in electromagnetic and radio frequency interference shielding applications. The acquisition is meant to strengthen the materials science business.

28th Jun 2021

Apply Carbon, part of Belgium's Procotex Corporation, is scaling up production of recycled carbon fibres. For this, it is integrating its recently acquired short carbon fibre business of ELG UK with its plant in Plouay, in Brittany, France. Apply Carbon is a leader in the production of sustainable technical fibres such as carbon, para-aramids, and...

25th Jun 2021

Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology (UMSICHT), Sabic and Procter & Gamble have worked together in a circular economy pilot project, to demonstrate the feasibility of closing the loop on facemasks to help reduce plastic waste. Under the project, scientists have been able to convert used face masks into nonwoven fibre...

25th Jun 2021

Teijin Limited, a Japanese company engaged in aramid, carbon fibre and composite moulding material, has announced that it has joined the Aerospace Innovation Centre (AIC) organised by Spirit AeroSystems, one of the world's leading manufacturers of aircraft structural components. Teijin will work directly alongside Spirit and other members of the AIC.

25th Jun 2021

Shawmut Corporation, which uses materials innovation to improve lives, has established a Military and Protective Materials Business Unit that will use the company’s trademark advanced materials, textile manufacturing and process innovation techniques to produce high-quality, US-made, ultra-high-specification and high-performance technical fabric...

25th Jun 2021

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical (MGC) has established Nexx Technologies Advanced Materials Business Unit, marking its entry into the advanced composites market. Nexx is to function within MGC America (MGCA), a subsidiary in the United States. MGC has developed a unique portfolio of advanced composite materials for all kinds of customers and market segments.

25th Jun 2021

Oerlikon Nonwoven displayed market- and customer-oriented solutions for hygiene and medical, filtration, and other industrial applications at the recently held Anex-Since expo in Shanghai, China, in stand 1H20. Visitors to the expo will be presented with the Neumünster-based systems constructor’s impressive and extensive product and process know-how.

24th Jun 2021

Texas-based REXtac, and DL Chemical of Seoul are together setting up an Amorphous Poly Alpha Olefin manufacturing plant in South Korea, with an investment of $134 million. The APAO hot melt polymer and adhesive is widely used in a variety of areas, including hygiene products, HVAC filters, automotive interiors, and other industrial applications.