26th Jul 2019
South Africa's trade and industry minister Ebrahim Patel recently welcomed the R50 million investment by BFG Africa Rail in an advanced manufacturing facility in Gauteng. BFG Africa is a subsidiary of a multinational company in Bahrain specialising in manufacturing composite products and one of the top five global suppliers of advanced composite...
26th Jul 2019
Freudenberg Performance Materials, Germany-based specialist for technical textiles, is taking the help of Voith to make the existing air system at its non-woven production facility more energy efficient. The two have signed a contract which covers the programming and retrofitting of the control unit and air ducts with the necessary hardware and...
25th Jul 2019
Nanowear has announced the clinical launch of NanoSENSE, a heart failure management and alert diagnostic validation study. The study will initially be conducted at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Centre and Hackensack Meridian Health Systems. Nanowear is a developer of patented nanosensor technology with applications in cardiac and other...
25th Jul 2019
Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei is expanding its plant for Lamous artificial suede in Nobeoka, Miyazaki, Japan, by 4 million m2 / year, increasing total production capacity to 14 million m2 / year upon completion in 2021. Construction is currently in progress to raise existing capacity of 6 million m2 / year to 10 million m2 / year.
25th Jul 2019
Kordsa, a subsidiary of Sabancı Holding and a global player in the reinforcement technologies market, has acquired US-based Axiom Materials. The acquisition of $181 million has paved the way for Kordsa to be the only worldwide qualified manufacturer of oxide-oxide ceramic matrix composites. Axiom Materials is a progressive composite materials...
24th Jul 2019
In response to increased demand for its flame resistant products, Mount Vernon FR has announced expansion of operations at its Trion, Georgia, facility. The additional 4,500 square feet of production space will be home to new state-of-the-art FR treatment equipment that will increase its production and finished fabric capacity by 20 per cent.
24th Jul 2019
Aditya Birla Chemicals Thailand, a manufacturer of bulk and specialty chemicals and viscose filament yarn, has acquired Recyclamine technology from chemical technology start-up Connora. The US-based company, Connora is the pioneer of recyclable epoxy resin technology, based on a novel proprietary polyamine synthesis platform called Recyclamine.
24th Jul 2019
Solvay will showcase developments in thermoplastic composites, a light-weighting material that enhances the group's sustainable mobility objectives and enables resource-efficient solutions for customers in aerospace, automotive, and oil and gas, at K 2019. It will also present a new high temperature polyetheretherketone (PEEK) polymer, an industry...
24th Jul 2019
Michelman will display its new line of Hydrosize Carbon at CAMX 2019. The composites and advanced materials exhibition will be held from September 23-26, 2019, in California. Michelman is a developer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for industry, offering solutions for the coatings, printing & packaging and industrial manufacturing...