world textiles research news

7th Dec 2020

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry has hailed the government decision to form a dedicated Export Promotion Council for Technical Textiles. Its chairman T Rajkumar said that the government target of achieving a market size of $350 billion by 2024-25 for the textile and apparel sector can only be realized by going beyond the conventional...

4th Dec 2020

VDMA, a German engineering industry association, has announced that the next VDMA technology webtalk is scheduled for December 9, 2020. The topic will be “Technologies for Technical Textiles”. Bena Manasieva Cavus from Georg Sahm, Janpeter Horn & Dennis Behnken from Herzog, and Hagen Lotzmann from Karl Mayer will be the presenters for the event.

4th Dec 2020

The Mann+Hummel Group, a filtration expert, plans to close its main manufacturing facility at Hilton Cross Business Park in Wolverhampton, UK, as it reviews its operational footprint. With this, all manufacture will be relocated within the European Mann+Hummel network. The manufacturing operations are likely to be fully closed by the end of 2022.

4th Dec 2020

Composites Evolution, a UK-based developer, manufacturer and supplier of prepregs for the production of lightweight structures from composite materials, announced that the company has passed their 3-year ISO 9001:2015 re-assessment following a thorough auditing process. ISO 9001 is the international standard for a quality management system.

3rd Dec 2020

The Indian ministry of textiles recently issued a notification inviting proposals from registered exporter associations and trade bodies for setting up a dedicated Export Promotion Council (EPC) for Technical Textiles. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, in a meeting on February 26, 2020, had approved the constitution of such a dedicated EPC.

3rd Dec 2020

INDA, the association of the nonwoven fabrics industry, has released a North American nonwovens industry outlook, 2019-2024. INDA’s report provides analysis across all of the nonwoven end-use markets, including 133 disposable and 129 durable categories, to provide comprehensive and accurate view available of the total North American nonwovens industry.

3rd Dec 2020

JEC Composites Startup Booster 2020 prizes have gone to Lignum (South Korea) and JUC Surf (Australia). The names of the winners have been announced by JEC Korea Online 2020. It has also selected four companies/institutes for the JEC Composites Innovation Awards. JEC Group rewards the best cutting-edge projects which use composites to their full...

3rd Dec 2020

Scientists at the Skoltech Centre for Design, Manufacturing and Materials have created multifunctional materials by adding carbon nanoparticles to polymer matrices, which allow self-diagnostic monitoring. The work is part of a multiphase project, designed to create self-sensing materials which can be produced using existing industrial manufacturing...

2nd Dec 2020

Addcomposites’ plug-n-produce platform, the AFP-XS, is now in operation at Compositadour, a French technological platform specialising in advanced manufacturing. This will increase the access to advanced composites manufacturing to a wider industry. Compositadour has been working to expand use of advanced composites beyond the aerospace sector.