world textiles research news

20th Aug 2020

Arevo, the Silicon Valley company transforming composites production through digitalisation and automation, has unveiled Aqua 2, the world's first high speed additive manufacturing system for large (up to one cubic metre) continuous carbon fibre composite structures. The system enables rapid, on-demand production of large custom composite parts.

20th Aug 2020

Bitrez, manufacturer of specialist polymers and chemicals, has come out with a new service to provide customers with technical data on specialist resins used in the formulation of advanced coatings, adhesives and composites via the free, members only, section of its website, My Bitrez. The service offers all the information on the latest developments.

19th Aug 2020

Michelman, a global manufacturer of environmentally friendly advanced materials for industry offering solutions for the coatings and printing, has announced that the company invested in its fibres & composites business segment by adding two new associates to better anticipate and serve its customers’ needs in the Reinforced Plastic Composites market.

19th Aug 2020

Royal DSM, a science-based company in nutrition, health and sustainable living, has developed a new glass-filled polypropylene (PP) pellet material, especially for 3D printing, enabling easy and consistent production of structural and demanding applications using fused granulate fabrication technology. PP is the second most frequently used polymer...

19th Aug 2020

Kordsa, as a pioneer and driver of digitalisation in tire, construction reinforcement and composites technologies market, has given hints for a seamless transformation focusing on Kordsa Brazil’s experience, which as a pre-requisite includes applying an inter-company relationship and carefully listening to the clients to co-create personalised...

19th Aug 2020

AmorSui has designed the Rebecca Crumpler Level 3 Antimicrobial Surgical Gown and AmorSui PPE management application, with a view to make hospitals reuse gowns in a simple and cost-effective way. Durable, eco-friendly and washable, up to 150 times, the new gowns have been created as a solution to the current shortages and rising costs of disposable PPE.

18th Aug 2020

Systech Illinois, a global brand of moisture and oxygen analysers and part of the Industrial Physics Product Integrity segment, has introduced the latest generation of its Lyssy L80 water vapour permeation analysers. The analyser provides cost-effective, high accuracy testing for packaging films as well as high permeability fabrics and non-wovens.

18th Aug 2020

US medical textile products manufacturer HipSaver has designed the first cloth mask which has proven highly effective in preventing penetration by virus particles in independent tests. The virus particles tested were five times smaller than Covid-19 virus particles, meaning that the efficacy against preventing Covid-19 virus particles could be even...

18th Aug 2020

A low-cost, low-maintenance, technologically advanced composites bridge deck system will soon replace a damaged, decades-old concrete bridge just off a narrow, curvy rural road in north central Tennessee's Morgan County. The initiative aims at demonstrating effectiveness of fibre-reinforced polymer composite materials, or FRPs, in bridges across the US.