KARL MAYER has been awarded the iF DESIGN AWARD 2016 for its KAMCOS® 2. KARL MAYER not only focuses on improving the performance features of its textile machines, it also concentrates on continuously upgrading the machine handling – and this company has developed some exceptional solutions.

Global demand for nonwovens is forecast to rise 5.4 per cent annually to 11.1 million metric tonne (MMT) in 2019.

Teijin Limited has developed two new fabrics of Twaron® and Technora® para-aramid fibres to protect facilities

One of the best-known and most successful brands of Munich-based chemicals group WACKER is turned 60. The company sought trademark protection from the German Patent Office for the name ELASTOSIL®.

The newly-developed VGT11-P4 Combi glass ring twisting machine, which was presented at the JEC 2015, successfully started production at the end of 2015.

With the acquisition of Cubic Tech Corporation last year, DSM Dyneema – the inventor and manufacturer of the Ultra High Molecular Weight Polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibre branded as Dyneema® – is now not only responsible for world’s strongest, lightest fibres, sheets and tapes but also world’s strongest, lightest and most engineered fabrics and composites.

EuroFibers BV has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Gruschwitz GmbH. The agreement is EuroFibers’ first direct distribution agreement in Prisma® Shielded Dyneema®. The two companies are well acquainted premium distributors of DSM Dyneema in Europe.