19th Dec 2019
Henkel and Fortify have decided to unite their areas of expertise to drive the potential of additive manufacturing. Henkel has developed custom technology that enables durable, high temperature and high modulus resins. Through collaboration, Henkel has designed several formulations that allow Fortify to achieve new outcomes for industrial customers.
18th Dec 2019
Specialty Graphic Imaging Association (SGIA), a premier printing trade organisation and Napco Media has appointed Andy Cvitanov as chief operating officer. In this new position, Cvitanov will oversee all operations within the newly formed company, including association infrastructure, strategy, audience development, finance, IT, human resources and...
18th Dec 2019
Solvay's partnership with Penso, a British manufacturing and engineering services company specialised in production of automotive parts made of composite materials for high-end vehicles, or "supercars", has led to industrialisation of the production of composite material parts for vehicles, making for quicker and easier manufacturing, and...
18th Dec 2019
Arville, which introduced Arville 4WS (four-way-stretch) and Arville ComfortShell fabrics, specifically aimed at key personnel within Australasia's firefighting, police, military and first-responder sectors, at the AFAC19 fire and emergency management conference in Melbourne, is now getting enquiries from the interested parties regarding the new...
18th Dec 2019
Global player of tire, construction reinforcement & composites technologies Kordsa was honoured as company of the year in Brazil by prestigious magazine Você S/A. After surveying all employees, Você S/A named Kordsa as ‘best company to work for’, ‘best company in textile to work for’ & ‘best small company with employees lower than 500 to work for’ in...
17th Dec 2019
Filling and Packing Material Mfg Co (FIPCO’s) subsidiary FPC Industries Co has obtained a certificate of accreditation from the Pilgrims Housing Project for various kinds of FPC products of industrial fire-resistant fabrics to be used in building tents, shades and all other purposes related to pilgrims housing projects in Mina, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
17th Dec 2019
India's coir businesses are preparing to take advantage of the price-competitiveness of coir geotextiles by switching to the use of brown fibre and stepping up automation. The industry will soon sport a diversified basket of products, including needle punched fabric, mulching sheet, coir composite, binder-less board and coir acoustic material.
17th Dec 2019
The Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (IMWS) and ThermHex Waben are organising the "Composite-Sandwich Conference" in Halle (Saale), Germany during February 5-6. The conference will highlight new fields of application of sandwich materials besides providing a platform to exchange knowledge and opportunity to network.
17th Dec 2019
Indian Institute of Technology Mandi is organising a National Workshop on 'Advanced Composites for Aerospace: Design, Manufacturing and Condition Monitoring Perspective' from February 11 to 15, 2020. Eminent scientists from Aeronautics Research and Development Board (the aerospace research wing of DRDO) are expected to attend the workshop.