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The Hohenstein Institute can now test industrial textiles or personal protection equipment (PPE), in accordance with the DIN EN ISO 9185 standard, for protection against molten metal splashes.
News18 Dec 2013Rayonier, a leading forest products company with three core businesses: Forest Resources, Real Estate and Performance Fibres, has forecast that in 2014 sales volumes of its cellulose specialties will reach around 520,000 to 540,000 metric tons, an increase of 30,000 to 50,000 tons above 2013 figures.
Cariaggi is to highlight the characteristics and ‘essence’ of cashmere within its Spring-Summer 2015 collection which presents new yarns with natural white colours, obtained without the use of optical brighteners, at Pitti Filati.
News17 Dec 2013Nantong Teijin Co, the Teijin group’s polyester textile manufacturing and processing company, will provide uniforms, designed by Onward Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., a company engaged in the design, manufacturing and sales of uniforms, for Fuji Xerox (China).
Keer will construct and operate a 230,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Indian Land, located in Lancaster County. There the company will produce industrial cotton yarn, taking advantage of South Carolina’s location within the heart of the USA’s cotton-producing region. Keer expects to break ground on the facility in early February.
News16 Dec 2013Braskem, one of the largest petrochemical producers in the Americas, and Genomatica, a US biotechnology company, have signed an agreement for the joint development of a new technology for the production of butadiene from renewable feedstocks.
News13 Dec 2013A public-private partnership between the US Endowment for Forestry and Communities (Endowment) and the US Forest Service has been forged to advance the development of the first US commercial facility producing cellulosic nanomaterial, a wood fibre broken down to the nanoscale.
Profile13 Dec 2013OAO Sibur Holding, the integrated gas processing and petrochemicals company, has revealed that during the first nine months of 2013 its revenue remained largely flat at Rb197 billion ($5.9 billion), compared to Rb198 billion ($6 billion) for the nine months ended September 30, 2012.
