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29th Jul 2020

Freudenberg Performance Materials, a leading global supplier of innovative technical textiles for apparel, automotive and leather goods, announced that the company has partnered with the Nonwovens Institute at North Carolina State University to manufacture face masks for UNC system universities, NC government organisations and hospitals.

29th Jul 2020

Nanowear, the nanotechnology-based connected-care and remote diagnostic platform, is collaborating with Hackensack Meridian Health Systems, the largest hospital system in New Jersey and Maimonides Medical Centre in Brooklyn, NY. The expanded COVID-19 remote diagnostic research alliance uses precision medicine clinical-grade, cloth-based wearable...

28th Jul 2020

Myant has set up a dedicated laboratory in its Toronto-based facility to develop next-generation connected performance solutions enabled via textiles that sense and react to the human body. The lab aims to bring together experts at the intersection of applied sports science, electrophysiology, engineering, data science, behavioural science, and...

28th Jul 2020

Victrex, leader in high-performance polyetheretherketone (PEEK) and polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymer solutions, has introduced Victrex AM 200 filament, specifically developed and optimised for additive manufacturing. The PEEK incumbent materials available today have been designed for conventional manufacturing, such as machining and injection molding.

28th Jul 2020

Welspun Group's fully integrated vertical Welspun Flooring Ltd recently launched a manufacturing facility in Hyderabad with a potential annual capacity of 40 million square metres (sq m). Set up with an investment of ₹1,100 crore, the facility is spread across 200 acres, employing close to 1,600 members. Its initial annual capacity is 10 million sq m.

28th Jul 2020

The EMS Group, with its companies combined in the EMS-Chemie Holding and globally active in business areas high performance polymers and specialty chemicals, has announced that the company will strengthen its executive management as of August 6, 2020. The board of directors of the EMS-Chemie nominated Dr Christoph Kleiner as member of executive...

28th Jul 2020

LyondellBasell, the world's largest licensor of polyolefin technologies, has announced that Quanzhou Grand Pacific Chemical Co Ltd (QGPC), a fully owned Chinese subsidiary of Grand Pacific Petrochemical Corporation (GPPC) of Taiwan, will use its Spheripol technology for a new facility. The process technology will be used for a 450 KTA polypropylene...

27th Jul 2020

RadiciGroup, an Italian multinational company engaged in chemicals, engineering polymers, fibres and nonwovens business, reported sales of €1,092 million in fiscal year 2019. Company’s EBITDA for the year were €165 million. Investments made in FY19 to further RadiciGroup growth brought the total amount allocated during the 2015-2019 period to €216...

27th Jul 2020

Bicma Hygiene Technologie, which has been part of the W+D Group since 2018, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by expanding its product portfolio twice over. It has developed a new Volcano Kid pants machine for baby pull-up pants, and to meet the Corona crisis and lack of face masks, it designed a new high-speed machine for producing high volumes of...