19th Jan 2023
US-based Perigee Direct has announced the launch of the Trivantage fabric bonding tape to its online collection, making it available for customers. The tape is specifically designed to weld together fabric panels to create stitch-free seams and works with a range of heat sealable fabrics. The company manufactures and supplies specialty consumables.
18th Jan 2023
Japan’s Asahi Kasei, a Japanese multinational company, has developed a new technology for recycling carbon fibre plastic compounds together with the National Institute of Technology, Kitakyushu College and Tokyo University of Science. Asahi Kasei is dedicated to sustainability initiatives and is contributing to reaching a carbon neutral society by 2050.
16th Jan 2023
Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM), developer of highly specialised engineered woven webbing and speciality fabrics, is presenting its high-quality, high-performance products at the two-day SHOT show supplier showcase, that began today as part of the SHOT Show, in the Palazzo Ballroom at the Venetian Congress centre in Las Vegas, Nevada, in booth #51238.
16th Jan 2023
Carbios and Novozymes, a leader in biological solutions, have announced a strategic partnership. The agreement ensures the production of Carbios’ proprietary PET-degrading enzymes at an industrial scale for the world’s first biological PET-recycling plant due to start production in 2025 in Longlaville, France, as well as Carbios’ future licensee...
16th Jan 2023
Lubrizol Engineered Polymers exhibited a prototype of the SilSense material for car seat covers at the recently concluded Auto Expo Components trade show that was held in New Delhi, India, from January 12-15, 2023. At the expo, a sample of this new, first-class quality synthetic leather was in the spotlight at the Autoform booth B38 in hall 3FF.
16th Jan 2023
Suominen is set to present a programme around trends in nonwovens business and new innovative fibres. The Suominen Sustainability & New Fibre seminar will be held in Nakkila, Finland on February 28 – March 1, 2023. The seminar brings together professionals from across the nonwoven production value chain, from fibre production to converters.
13th Jan 2023
Germany’s Mann+Hummel has unveiled a strategic investment in M-Filter, one of the filter manufacturing companies in Northern and Eastern Europe with several production facilities in Finland and Lithuania. The company has specialised in different areas of filtration, including air ventilation filters, HEPA filters and oil/hydraulic filters for engines.
12th Jan 2023
Norco Composites has named Carl Partridge as its sales director. The UK-based company is a leading producer of lightweight composite structures and innovative GRP mouldings and supplies it to all its customers all over the world. As a GRP manufacturer, the company meets the requirement of its customers for cost-effective high quality fibreglass...
12th Jan 2023
Finland’s Suominen is set to start a consultation with local trade unions to permanently stop manufacturing at its Mozzate plant. The production would end during the second quarter of 2023. The consultation will be conducted in accordance with the Italian legislation and applicable National Collective Agreement and is aimed to be completed within 90...