Composites
Market insights: survey shows positive outlooks for the Composites industry
The ongoing epidemic of COVID-19 that has been affecting the world's economy since last winter has had a tremendous impact on many major industries, including aerospace and automotive, at the heart of the composites industry. Although the outlooks seem uncertain for the latter, the composites industry has remained resilient and shows strong adaptability during this crisis.
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Walter Reiners-Stiftung (Foundation) once again awards two ITA prize winners
Best Dissertation Award and Creativity Award of the Foundation of the German Textile Machinery Industry 2020 go to Aachen
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Kemin Textile Auxiliaries becomes official bluesign® system partner
Adhering to bluesign® reinforces Kemin Textile Auxiliaries’ commitment to sustainability and provides customers further guarantee of transparent and traceable production processes
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Textile chemistry
Crude oil - for a long time the lubricant of the world. As a fuel, for heating and cooling and as a raw material in industry, for example for the production of plastics. But the reserves of crude oil are limited. And its use releases CO2 – to the detriment of the climate. A particularly sustainable alternative to oil is biomass. The materials manufacturer Covestro is increasingly offering bio-based products and, together with partners from numerous countries, is advancing research in this field.
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Today, Fashion for Good celebrates the progress achieved over the past year since launching their South Asia Innovation Programme during their annual end of year event. To round off an eventful year, Fashion for Good announces their newest regional partner, Birla Cellulose – part of the Aditya Birla Group, as well as the graduation of 9, first batch start-ups, many of whom have successfully engaged with leading manufactures to bring their solutions to market in a year filled with unprecedented challenges.
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Eastman takes on global challenges through ambitious sustainability agenda
Eastman announced ambitious 2030 sustainability commitments Tuesday in tandem with the publication of its 2020 sustainability report. The report highlights the company's commitment to sustainable innovation and establishes goals to address three difficult, long-term and potentially devastating challenges that will affect our rapidly growing population: climate change, the plastic waste crisis and social inequities.
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DuPont Biomaterials sponsors fashion program at Central Saint Martins
Fashion students to receive Sorona® fabrics for annual show
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Textile Exchange’s Benchmark program to cover nature impacts for the first time
Created in partnership with Conservation International and The Biodiversity Consultancy, with support from corporate partner Sappi, the Biodiversity Benchmark provides a roadmap for companies to understand their impacts on nature and to deliver positive outcomes.
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DORNIER presents itself with holistic approaches to thermoplastic composites and three-dimensional preforms
A modern composite lightweight design is not based on the material alone. It is rather an optimal synergy of material, process and application.
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INDA releases new North American Nonwovens Industry Outlook report
INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry has released a new industry outlook report, North American Nonwovens Industry Outlook, 2019-2024.
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Continental Structural Plastics perfects carbon fiber RTM process, launches production programs
After winning a JEC Innovation Award in 2016 for its Lincoln MKS Decklid Concept – a TCA Ultra Lite® outer panel and a carbon fiber RTM prototype inner – Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) has fine-tuned its carbon fiber RTM (CF-RTM) process to the point that a premium automaker will be using the technology for closures on future vehicle platforms. These doors will feature both inner and outer panels as well as structural reinforcements molded using CSP’s advanced CF-RTM process.
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International technology group ANDRITZ and biotechnology group Infinited Fiber Company have signed a cooperation agreement to develop the process and equipment solutions for Infinited Fiber Company’s textile fiber regeneration technology. The technology can turn any cellulose-rich raw material, including discarded textiles, used cardboard or rice or wheat straw, into cellulose carbamate fibers – unique, high-quality textile fibers with the look and feel of cotton. ANDRITZ is the process equipment supplier for the technology. The two companies have worked together to carry out trials since the end of 2019.
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Borealis has gained for its Porvoo (Finland), Schwechat (Austria), polyolefin (PO) production sites, and is aiming to have its sites at Stenungsund (Sweden) and Burghausen (Germany) certified by the first quarter of 2021. Borealis’ Porvoo location, which recently , is the latest site to gain this certification. A certification audit was completed at Stenungsund this October, and there is one planned for certification at Burghausen later this year.
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Lenzing AG has successfully issued a hybrid bond – a subordinated, unsecured bond – with a total volume of EUR 500 mn and a coupon of 5.75 percent.
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Loepfe Brothers Ltd. has announced today that their new YarnMaster® EOS is in series production and ready for shipping. Featuring state-of-the-art optoelectronic technology, this is the latest in a range of products designed and launched to support maximum productivity for spinning mills.
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In early December, the chairman of the Walter Reiners Foundation of the VDMA Textile Machinery Association, Peter D. Dornier presented awards to six successful young engineers. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the award ceremony took place as a web conference for the first time.
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Testing service provider and research partner, Hohenstein now tests according to the first European guideline for community masks, the CEN Workshop Agreement (CWA) 17553:2020. Hohenstein had already taken a big step towards safety and functionality with the introduction of its quality label for Tested Community Masks. The new "Community Face Coverings-Guide to minimum requirements, methods of testing and use" sets minimum requirements for design, performance evaluation, labelling and packaging of both reusable and disposable masks.
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Practical training for the garment industry is a matter close to the heart of the Assyst company. Once a year the company therefore presents the Vidya Award to give young designers the opportunity to intensively work with product development in 3D. Now the prizes were awarded in a virtual awards ceremony.
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Just a few days ago, the second newly-delivered Oerlikon Nonwoven meltblown system was commissioned at Innovatec’s state-of-the-art machine park. With it, the nonwovens manufacturer – based in Troisdorf in North Rhine-Westphalia – immediately started producing polypropylene filter nonwovens: in particular for use in protective face masks, which have been increasingly in demand since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and whose domestic manufacture is being supported by the German Government.
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Postponement of FABRIC DAYS Spring.Summer 22
The ongoing situation demands the highest flexibility and versatility from our industry. As we all miss personal exchange with our industry partners MUNICH FABRIC START wants to offer a safe and inspiring physical platform as soon as possible. Based on current developments, the announced date for FABRIC DAYS in January no longer seems feasible. Which is why the upcoming edition of FABRIC DAYS has been postponed by five weeks...
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New recycling capacity in France and Poland to recycle 10 billion PET bottles in Europe by 2023
10 billion post-consumer PET plastic bottles from across Europe will be recycled per year by 2023 in Indorama Ventures’ new and expanded facilities in France and Poland. Thai-based Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) is investing USD1.5 billion globally to expand its recycling facilities. The new investment, that will see over 1.7 billion additional post-consumer PET plastic bottles recycled, was welcomed today by UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, whose members have committed to use recycled PET (rPET) in their bottles.
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Working Mother Media names VF Corporation one of the “Top 75 Companies for Executive Women”
VF Corporation (NYSE: VFC), a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, footwear and accessories, has been named one of the 2020+ Top Companies for Executive Women by Working Mother Media (WMM). WMM continues to explore ways to move more women into top positions, while highlighting the successes at these trailblazing companies.
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Coronavirus: Commission presents “Staying safe from COVID-19 during winter” strategy
Today, the Commission adopted a strategy for sustainably managing the pandemic over the coming winter months, a period that can bring a risk of increased transmission of the virus owing to specific circumstances such as indoor gatherings. The strategy recommends continued vigilance and caution throughout the winter period and into 2021 when the roll out of safe and effective vaccines will occur. The Commission will then provide further guidance on a gradual and coordinated lifting of containment measures.
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Stäubli – innovation driver and long-term shaper of the Swiss machinery landscape
December 9, 2020 marks the 80th anniversary date of the Swissmem Textile Machinery Division. Stäubli, a member of Swissmem since January 1897, was among the founders of this section, dedicated to the textile industry. The section was established during very difficult times, World War II, but has achieved success for both partners: Today the Swissmem Textile Machinery Division is celebrating its 80th anniversary, and the Stäubli Group, as a founding member headquartered in Switzerland, enjoys worldwide renown as an innovation driver in textile mechatronics.
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Bringing movement to the surface
Seersucker clothing is a hit every summer season. The fabrics look cool and can be worn without breaking into a sweat. This is thanks to slightly three-dimensional relieflike fabric sides. The crepe-like surfaces ensure that the textiles do not lie directly on the skin, but are instead kept away from the body. This allows for ventilation and moisture balance. What’s more, the relief-like structures mean the pieces do not need to be ironed after washing – and also give the fabric its name. The word seersucker originates from Persian and means shir o shekar: milk and sugar.
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Denim
Light on the Land 2.0 is out: Miles Johnson and ISKO’s Creative Room present the new responsible collection.
The second edition of this partnership tells the story of a unique combination of creativity and expertise brought to the table by ISKO’s style and design center, Creative Room Italy, and the innovative designer Miles Johnson, resulting in a collection featuring responsible R-TWOTM fabrics and a selection of sustainable accessories and details.
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Lower production expected to ease pressure on prices in 2020/21
It seems as though cotton prices have been under pressure forever — certainly since the pandemic began — but a projected reduction in global production, from 24.9 million tonnes to 24.7 million tonnes, could ease that pressure slightly due to lower year-ending stocks in 2020/21.
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Key role for Kipas in the EU’s multi-million New Cotton Project
Monforts customer Kipas has been selected as the sole denim manufacturing partner in the €6.7 million European Union-funded New Cotton Project, involving the brands adidas and H&M, working in a consortium with suppliers, innovators and research institutes.
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Sonntag Fins switch to Sicomin’s GreenPoxy® 33 for custom carbon windsurf fins
Sicomin’s latest marine collaboration with Sonntag Fins sees its industry leading GreenPoxy® 33 bio-based epoxy resin used for custom carbon fibre windsurf fins - combining speed, fatigue performance and sustainability for some of the fastest sailors afloat.
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Italian textile machinery: Opening of technology training center in Pakistan
The inauguration ceremony for the Italy-Pakistan Textile Technology Center (IPTTC) was held this past November 16th in Faisalabad, Pakistan at the National Textile University (NTU). The training center, which is the first of its kind for Italian textile machinery technology in Pakistan, was inaugurated by the Italian Ambassador to Pakistan, Andreas Ferrarese, and by Rizwan Shafi, CEO of Crescent Bahuman Limited.
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INDA’s Virtual Hygienix™ 2020 event connects global hygiene and personal care industry professionals!
Over 240 professionals from 18 countries throughout the supply chain participated in the sixth edition of INDA’s Hygienix™, the premier event for absorbent hygiene & personal care markets, on Nov. 17-19 in a virtual format to comply with pandemic guidelines.
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Digital trade fair by Truetzschler Nonwovens and Truetzschler Card Clothing
COVID-19 has presented many companies with a major challenge this year. Trade fairs were cancelled or postponed and the exchange with the customer did not take place as usual. At the same time there is the opportunity to pursue new, digital ways.
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The installation of 112 OmniPlus-i machines at Ada Fios in Portugal reaches full cruising speed!
Challenges in life are inevitable, but they can often be used to one’s advantage. This was the perspective that the Portuguese company ADA Fios took when it was hit by a fire that completely destroyed its spinning section and most of its weaving machines at the end of June. ADA Fios faced the challenge by confidently looking to the future and it made immediate plans for an even more modern weaving mill than it had before.
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USD 3.6 Billion worldwide textile coatings industry to 2027 - Impact of COVID-19 on the market - ResearchAndMarkets.com
The "Textile Coatings - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.
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