6th Apr 2020
Suominen and Ahlstrom-Munksjo have signed a multi-year commercial agreement that renews and strengthens the existing co-operation at the Stalldalen plant in Sweden. The agreement secures supplies from Stalldalen to Suominen's customers for several years and will also considerably improve the joint service of the companies to their customers.
6th Apr 2020
Autoliv, leader in vehicle safety systems, is monitoring the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and taking measures to minimise its impact on customers and on the company. Autoliv has tapped $500 million from its revolving credit facility to pay existing short-term debt and for general corporate purposes. The pandemic will have a negative effect on its...
6th Apr 2020
Bolger & O’Hearn (B&O) has been designated as a COVID-19 essential service by the US Departments of Defence (DOD) and Homeland Security. Operations throughout B&O’s Fall River, Massachusetts, R&D labs and manufacturing facilities will remain open as the company provides chemistries make personal protective equipment (PPE) and other textile end products.
6th Apr 2020
Barco's Nightingales Foundation (BNF) has announced that it will be donating 350,000 masks to four California hospital organisations that are treating patients infected with COVID-19. In 2008, BNF was founded by Barco's chairman of the board, Michael Donner, and his wife Frida, in hopes of lifting-up the lives of children all around the world.
6th Apr 2020
Paper Converting Machine Company (PCMC), part of Barry-Wehmiller, has announced that the Xcut saw, its newest tissue log saw, now has the ability to use predictive maintenance to reduce unplanned downtime. PCMCA manufactures high-performance converting machinery for the tissue, nonwovens, package-printing, and bag-converting industries worldwide.
6th Apr 2020
Mondi’s personal care components team is set to convert a production line at its Gronau plant in Germany to manufacture soft, elastic straps which are being used for face masks by medical professionals and consumers during the COVID-19 outbreak. As a leader in packaging and paper, Mondi is playing its part to produce important supplies and components.
6th Apr 2020
Chargeurs and Noble Biomaterials have launched a strategic collaboration to produce urgently needed personal protective equipment (PPE) for the healthcare industry. Amid shortages of medical-grade equipment such as face masks and gowns, the two companies are working to enable Chargeurs to manufacture PPE using Noble Biomaterials' silver-based...
3rd Apr 2020
Global textile manufacturer Milliken has decided to use its materials science expertise to produce personal protective equipment (PPE) for the health sector amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Milliken's new advanced medical fabrics and barriers complement its breakthrough BioSmart antimicrobial technology used in scrubs, lab coats and hospital privacy...
3rd Apr 2020
Morocco's Lamatem will provide the government with medical textile products, including coveralls, gowns, medical hats and overshoes, to face the COVID-19 crisis, the industry ministry announced recently. The initiative adds to a new program to boost medical equipment production under the National Agency for the Promotion of Small and Mid-Sized...