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12th Feb 2019

Protective Industrial Products, Inc (PIP), a supplier of hand protection and general safety products, has signed an agreement to acquire West Chester Protective Gear (West Chester), a leader in providing personal protective equipment to both industrial and retail channels. Lincoln International was the financial advisor to West Chester in the...

12th Feb 2019

Hexcel’ carbon prepreg patch technology has been selected as a finalist for the JEC Innovation Awards 2019 in the automotive category. Hexcel will display the HexPly carbon patch technology at JEC World 2019, from March 12-14, 2019, among other composite innovations for the automotive, marine, wind energy, and aerospace sectors, in booth J41, pavilion...

11th Feb 2019

Use of aluminium matrix composites (AMCs) can improve the efficiency and performance of electric motors, according to research from the Innovate UK ‘Make it Lighter with Less’ R and D competition. A collaborative project under AMC specialist, Alvant achieved a 40 per cent rotor weight saving while increasing the rotor’s power-to-inertia ratio potential.

11th Feb 2019

Chem-Trend, leader in development, manufacturing, and marketing of high-performance release agents, purging compounds, and other process chemical specialties, has set up an advanced research and development laboratory space in Maisach, Germany. The new lab space joins Chem-Trend’s network of laboratories across the globe, enhancing its research...

11th Feb 2019

Victrex has chosen an innovative tooling design and processing technology called Production to Functional Specification (PtFS) from Surface Generation to enhance manufacturing effectiveness to its parts-based mega-programmes, OEM, Tier 1s, and moulding community. The investment will help Victrex increase commercialisation of its parts-based...

8th Feb 2019

Ternua’s Blackcomb mountain ski suit was chosen as best intermediate layer product in the Snow Sports category at the recently held ISPO Munich trade show. This is the third time Ternua has won this award known as the Oscars of sport. In 2016, the ISPO Gold Award went to its ‘Terranova’ and ‘South River’ jackets and in 2017, it went to its ‘Craddle’...

8th Feb 2019

Domtar Corporation, a provider of fibre-based products like specialty and packaging papers, absorbent hygiene products, has reported net earnings of $87 million for Q4 2018 compared to net loss of $386 million for Q4 2017. Sales for Q4 2018 were $1.4 billion. For FY2018, net earnings amounted to $283 million compared to net loss of $258 million for...

8th Feb 2019

Ispecc, a company that offers a variety of equipment and industrial services to the aerospace, automotive, energy, defence and advanced composites sector, has been appointed as distributor of Eastman automated cutting machines. In future, Ispecc will understand the process, production and quality targets of a customer and specify the optimal Eastman...

7th Feb 2019

Berg Outdoor, a valued customer of Porcher Sport, the sports and leisure division of Porcher Industries, has been selected as Gold Winner for its Geres zero gravity down jacket within outdoor category at the ISPO Awards 2019. Berg Outdoor’s zero gravity down jacket represents the latest trends for sustainable produce in the outdoor sector.