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7th Nov 2019

Stelia Aerospace, a tier one partner in the aerostructure, pilot seats and first and business class passenger seats, has set up a new assembly site in Portugal, to strengthen position among the aeronautical leaders. The new site will host assembly aerostructure sub-assembly activities, for sections which will be shipped to the Stelia Aerospace French...

7th Nov 2019

Gearwrench will display its new line of heated apparel, including a jacket, hoodie, fleece, and vest option, at SEMA, in booth #10509. The SEMA show is a global, premier automotive specialty products trade event, which will be held from November 5-8, 2019, at Las Vegas convention centre, US. Gearwrench is a premier hand tool brand from Apex Tool group.

7th Nov 2019

Basf has unveiled Elastopan polyurethane for Mizuno's new training footwear. The shoes are meant to improve balance and athletic performance. The high-performance material solution enables Mizuno's Centre of Balance (COB) technology that transmits information to the soles of the feet through activation bumps moulded into the surface of the midsole.

7th Nov 2019

Park Aerospace Corp, which develops and manufactures solution and hot-melt advanced composite materials used to produce composite structures for the global aerospace markets, has relocated its New York office to a new address: 1400 Old Country Road, Suite 409N, Westbury, NY 11590-5119. Park's New York office telephone number will remain the same as...

6th Nov 2019

Albany has announced that the company's board of directors has appointed Greg Harwell as group president for Albany Engineered Composites (AEC), effective November 4, 2019. Albany, headquartered in the US, is a developer and manufacturer of engineered components, using advanced materials processing and automation capabilities, with two core businesses.

6th Nov 2019

Carbon ThreeSixty, manufacturer of advanced composites structures, has carried out a trial with the National Composites Centre (NCC) on Tailored-Fibre Placement (TFP) technology. The trial has been successful and the technology will help reduce manufacturing costs and material waste. TFP enables high precision, free-form placement of fibres within a...

6th Nov 2019

JEC Group and China Composites Group Corporation are collaborating in China to promote composite solutions in application industries and help sharing best practices and identify opportunities for development. The two, with more than 15 years of partnership organising the CCE– JEC Innovation Awards, have signed a partnership agreement in this connection.

6th Nov 2019

With a view to increase UK's competitiveness in composites, the National Physical Laboratory has recommended a ten-year roadmap which focuses on 11 key areas aimed at translating existing technologies into widely acceptable and usable documentation in the form of guides, specifications and standards, and developing new technologies where these do not...

6th Nov 2019

After registering a decline in 2015 and 2016, the global trade of nonwovens has been shown sharp rise with a high CAGR (compound annual growth rate), according to data from TexPro. The total trade gained by 13.48 per cent in 2018 over the previous year, and it is anticipated to reach $ 43.15 billion in 2021 growing at a CAGR of 10.47 per cent from 2018.