world textile events news

19th Feb 2021

Triumph Group is selling its Red Oak, Texas operations to Arlington Capital Partners. The deal includes the Red Oak facility, together with Triumph’s thermoplastic engineering capabilities. Arlington Capital Partners will combine the Red Oak business with the composites facilities it is separately acquiring from Triumph pursuant to an earlier agreement.

18th Feb 2021

Kishigo, a US-based manufacturer of high visibility safety apparel and accessories, is contributing to fight against Covid-19 by supplying high visibility vests, t-shirts and jackets to healthcare workers engaged in Covid-19 testing and vaccination in high traffic environments. Covid-19 vaccine centres are being set up in large parking lots in the...

18th Feb 2021

TexPro, the one-of-a-kind market intelligence information provider from Fibre2Fashion, is now also available for technical textiles. The global technical textile industry can now avail export-import data, information on tenders, latest patents, raw material price trends and other critical data insights, analysis, and information specific to the...

18th Feb 2021

OrganoClick, a Swedish cleantech company, has reported 21.3 per cent sales growth to SEK 18.2 million (Swedish krona) in its fourth quarter (Q4) FY20 that ended on December 31, 2020, compared to the sales of SEK 15.0 million in the same period previous year. Group incurred a loss during the period of SEK 9.7 million (Q4 FY19: SEK 9.2 million).

18th Feb 2021

Keeping in line with its focus on sustainability, leading global filtration expert Mann+Hummel has improved its Mann-Filter air filter – it now has renewed filter medium which is made from recycled synthetic fibres. One square metre of filter medium contains plastic from up to six 1.5-litre PET bottles. Fibres of the renewed medium are certified...

18th Feb 2021

Hexcel has developed HexPly XF surface technology that reduces shell manufacturing time within the wind blade surface finishing process. Addressing the limitations of current techniques, HexPly XF increases overall blade manufacturing efficiency by reducing time in the mold by up to two hours and banishing surface defects that require rework before...

17th Feb 2021

Rock West Composites (RWC) has shifted to its new corporate headquarters in San Diego, California, a facility more than three times larger than its previous headquarters. As the company positions itself for significant growth, the move will help accommodate new staff, add manufacturing space, and grow capability for large-scale composites manufacturing.

17th Feb 2021

The 2021 edition of Techtextil North America is now accepting abstracts for highly acclaimed Techtextil North America Symposium and additional educational features including Tech Talks, The Lab, and the Student Research Poster Programme. Techtextil North America 2021 will be held August 23-25, 2021 at the Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North...

17th Feb 2021

The 8th edition of the International Conference on Intelligent Textiles and Mass Customisation (ITMC) 2021, to be held during September 20-22 in Montreal, will focus on intelligent textiles and mass customisation. The conference is being organised by CTT Group, a Canadian technology transfer leader specialising in R and D, and analysis of technical...