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A multilayered wound dressing that claims to offer improved contamination control, improved odour adsorption and superior absorption of excess wound exudates has been developed by Blücher.

Wearable sensor technology developer MC10 of Lexington, Massachusetts, is entering into a strategic partnership with life sciences company LabCorp of Burlington, North Carolina, both in the USA.

Rainbow Seed Fund, an early-stage venture capital fund focused on building technology companies from research carried out in the UK, is providing seed investment to Pireta, a smart textiles company

A long glass fibre-reinforced polypropylene (LGFPP) instrument panel carrier for the 2017 Mini Countryman has won the Body Interior category at the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE)’s

SGL Group has bought Benteler’s shares in the joint-venture company the two set-up in 2008, automotive composite parts manufacturer Benteler-SGL. 

A stent jacket designed to reduce platelet aggregation is described by InspireMD of Tel Aviv, Israel.

Royal DSM has signed a framework technology partnership agreement with Toyota Motorsport GmbH (TMG), a subsidiary of the Toyota Motor Corp. 

Arville of Wetherby, UK, has entered into a trade mark licencing agreement (TMLA) with DuPont of Wilmington, Delaware, USA, for the latter's flame-resistant Nomex-branded meta-aramid yarns.

Solvay of Brussels, Belgium, has acquired German producer of high-quality precursor for large-tow (50k) polyacrylonitrile (PAN) carbon fibres European Carbon Fiber GmbH (ECF) of Kelheim.

Personnel and processing equipment are being installed at GE Aviation’s factory complex in Huntsville, Alabama—the first in the USA to be mass-producing silicon carbide (SiC) materials for the manu

A golden flexible intermediate bulk container (FIBC) made from recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET) bottles has been unveiled by Starlinger of Vienna, Austria.  

Borealis of Vienna, Austria, is to examine the feasibility of increasing the capacity of its polypropylene (PP) plants in Europe significantly. 

North Thin Ply Technology (NTPT) is working with 4a manufacturing to develop carbon prepreg foam sandwich materials, which the two companies claim to be the thinnest in the world.

A range of products designed to increase the abrasion resistance of fabrics, thereby reducing instances of fuzzing and pilling, has been launched by HeiQ of Schlieren, Switzerland.

Chomarat of Le Cheylard, France, says that multiaxial machine for the manufacture of carbon fibre reinforcements it has purchased from Karl Mayer of Obertshausen, Germany, is ten-times more product

Xsensio of Lausanne, Switzerland, will lead the €2.48-million XPATCH consortium, which will develop a wearable skin patch for health and wellness monitoring based on the company’s propriet

Thomas Swan & Co Ltd of Consett, UK, will be expanding its range of Elicarb graphene materials with a prototype product for the manufacture of a carbon fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRPs).

The German The Mechanical Engineering Industry Association (VDMA) Textile Machinery Association has elected a new chairperson. 

A smart fabric developed with funding from Google at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, USA, could make keys obsolete.

An improved dressing for treating infected wounds has been developed by BSN Medical of Hamburg, Germany.