textile technology

1st Mar 2021

Dow, Kashi, and Berry Global have won the 2020 SEAL Environmental Initiative Award, for their collaboration to create the first fully recyclable flexible barrier pouch available nationally for Kashi's Bear Naked Granola brand. Dow is a chemical company whose portfolio of businesses consists of plastics, industrial intermediates, coatings, and silicones.

1st Mar 2021

Butler Technologies, a leader in printed electronics, has launched its Heatwave Developer Kits, which provide innovators the tools to create with the Butler Technologies’ flexible printed heaters. This gives developers a chance to come up with new designs on their own. The company’s printed heaters are ideal for materials designed to be close to users’ ...

27th Feb 2021

M1 Composites Technology, a Transport Canada Approved Maintenance Organisation (AMO), has attained Mach 5, the highest level of the MACH initiative. The achievement brings real benefits for M1 Composites customers and demonstrates M1's ability to quickly develop new capabilities, maintain high quality standards, improved processes, and fast turnaround...

26th Feb 2021

ASTM International’s geosynthetics committee is working on standard for vinyl sheet piling. There is a need for specification for vinyl sheet piling used for structural walls to hold back soil, separate land from water, mitigate flooding and erosion, and control water flow. The proposed standard will be mainly used by structural, civil, and design...

26th Feb 2021

The consumption of absorbent hygiene products, including disposable diapers, feminine hygiene and adult incontinence products—grew to about 691 billion units in 2020, says a report on the outlook for absorbent hygiene products and the key raw materials of non-wovens, fluff pulp, air-laid cores, super-absorbents and hygiene films by Price Hanna...

26th Feb 2021

ThermHex Waben GmbH, a Germany-based producer of polypropylene (PP) honeycomb cores, has announced that the company increased its capital to €1 million. The shareholders' meeting of the parent company EconCore NV had already approved this in 2020. The increase of €900,000 has now been entered in the commercial register before the end of the financial...

26th Feb 2021

Shawmut Corporation has established a new Health and Safety business unit that will use its trademark advanced materials, textile manufacturing and process innovation techniques to produce high-quality, US-made, health and safety products, including its Protex line of PPE. Shawmut broadened its medical focus last year to include PPE for COVID-19...

26th Feb 2021

A new show for composites industry - the International Composites Summit – is all set to take off on September 8. The two-day event is being co-organised by Composites UK and Fluency Marketing in London. The summit will focus on reinventing the global supply chain for composites, and will bring together companies and experts from world over.

25th Feb 2021

Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT), a provider of innovative fibre-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite solutions, has unveiled a new operating division - AIT Manufacturing. The new division adds to AIT’s two existing divisions. With three divisions, AIT can help supply FRP composite solutions from rebar to bridges, and continue innovate in...