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The 5th edition of MTex, the international mobile textiles exhibition, will have a host of new features when it returns to Chemnitz, Germany, from May 14-16 this year.
Switzerland-based Falu says it has found an answer to a problem that has plagued the European cotton swab industry for decades. Previously manufacturers had to rely on a cotton sliver weight of around 1.5g/m but the company’s new FDM (Falu Draft Module) system enables the usage of 3 to 5g/m standard slivers.
The CHT/Bezema Group will be presenting its product portfolio of finishing agents and effects for the nonwovens industry for the first time at INDEX 14 in Geneva next month. The range is designed to meet custom requirements in versatile product areas, from medtech, to protech, mobiltech to buildtech and beyond.
Reifenhäuser Reicofil has revealed it will launch a novel combination product made of nonwoven and film at the INDEX 14 show in Geneva in April. The extrusion machinery giant is not giving much away in advance of the launch but says it will be present together with sister company Reifenhäuser Cast Sheet Coating, which specialises in cast film lines, sheet lines and coating lines.
Technical3 Mar 2014Kimberly-Clark has developed novel engineered composite blends and nanocellular structures with PLA, which it is looking to commercialise, it was revealed at the NatureWorks Innovation Takes Root conference in Orlando, Florida, last month.
News3 Mar 2014Biteam has recently demonstrated weaving technology that is capable of directly manufacturing beam-like 3D profiled materials wherein the orientation of fibres constituting the web and flange are +Ɵ°/-Ɵ° and 0°/90°. The Sweden-based 3D weaving specialist said this technology was the first of its kind.
TenCate has reported full year sales of €1,012m in 2013, a decline of 3% compared with the previous year. The company saw its defence-related revenues fall by 40% due to US defence cuts, but, in anticipation of this, it had sharpened its focus on private markets and sales increased by 7% to partially offset the decline. Net profit was €19m compared with €20.9m during 2012.
News20 Feb 2014The fibres and nonwovens segment is one of the fastest growing markets for the Ingeo biopolymer, revealed Robert Green, global business leader for fibres and nonwovens at NatureWorks, at the company’s fourth Innovation Takes Root conference that was held in Orlando, Florida, this week.
Toray Industries is to invest $1bn in a new facility in Spartanburg County, South Carolina in the USA. The Tokyo-based company, which is the largest producer of carbon fibre in the world, said the facility will be a major supplier of advanced materials to the aerospace industry and will create 500 new jobs.
ANNA, the All-Nippon Nonwovens Association, and EDANA, the Europe-based association serving the nonwovens and related industries, are jointly calling upon the negotiators of the Japan-EU proposed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) to consider nonwovens and related products among issue-free product categories for the fast and straightforward elimination of customs tariff between the two trading blocks.
