world textiles research news

21st Jan 2019

Manchester-based Technical Textile Services (Techtex), which sources non-woven fabrics and manufactures a range of dry and wet wipe products including branded, private label and generic, recently acquired Whitminster International and Klenzeen, both headquartered in Stafford, creating a group with a turnover of over £20 million and a workforce of 90.

21st Jan 2019

The combination of Metrology Software Products (MSP)'s NC-Checker and NC-PerfectPart software with Renishaw’s leading probing technology (RMP600), is delivering significant cost and time savings for Quickstep Technologies’ composite manufacturing processes. The innovative software helps customers reduce costs, scrap parts and manufacturing time...

19th Jan 2019

Supield, creator of the thin and warm jacket line, S Kistler, has attained the figure of $100,000 on Kickstarter. The Supield team has decided to add a new aerogel insulated jacket and aerogel insulated gloves for backers to its existing offering - both made by the material inspired by the NASA spacesuits. Supield is headquartered in Shanghai, China.

19th Jan 2019

Owens Corning’s board of directors has elected Brian D Chambers, 52, current president and chief operating officer (COO), as new chief executive officer (CEO), effective April 18, 2019. Chambers succeeds Mike Thaman, who has served as chairman since 2002 and as CEO since 2007. Thaman will remain with the company in the role of executive chairman.

18th Jan 2019

Market intelligence sessions, where industry experts present actionable data, key drivers and insights for business opportunities in critical regions, would be the highlight at the upcoming IDEA 2019, a triennial global event for nonwovens & engineered fabrics. The event, to be organised by INDA, would be held from March 25-28 in Florida, US.

18th Jan 2019

Hexagon, a leader in digital solutions, has taken over Etalon, a provider of equipment calibration solutions. Etalon’s solutions continuously monitor and initiate compensation of machine tools, measuring machines, robots and structures to ensure dimensional accuracy of manufactured parts. Etalon’s portfolio strengthen Hexagon’s calibration solution...

18th Jan 2019

Techtextil has announced that it has opened the entries for Techtextil Innovation Award, honouring outstanding ideas in the field of technical textiles including, for the first time, ideas focussing on sustainability. Techtextil, the international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens, will be held from May 14-17, 2019, in Germany.

17th Jan 2019

Indorama Ventures Limited (IVL) will exhibit its CoolVisions brand of dyeable polypropylene filament and staple at the upcoming OR Winter Market/Snow Show in Denver this month. In addition, visitors to the CoolVisions/Indorama booth 55034-UL will discover new fabrics featuring IVL's IP intelligent performance range of specialty polyesters like Ecorama...

17th Jan 2019

Velox, an IMCD company, has formed distribution partnership with global company Porcher Industries in territories like Benelux, UK, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Spain/Portugal. The agreement includes complete product range of Porcher Industries, such as glass yarn fabrics (coated or greige), woven carbon fabrics and thermoplastics...