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The Boards of Directors of The Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) and EDANA have recommended a plan to incorporate a separate tax-exempt federation, the Global Nonwoven Alliance (G

As it looks to enter the nonwovens business, Turkish yarn manufacturer Göliplik Şeremet Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ (Göliplik) has ordered a complete wetlaid/hydroentanglement (wetlace) line from

B.I.G. Yarns has invested €25 million in equipment for the production of three-ply yarns for carpet tiles at its site in Comines, France.

Airtech Advanced Materials Group of Huntington Beach, California, USA, has purchased Blackburn, UK-based manufacturer of needlepunched and air-bonded nonwovens, Cosmotec Nonwovens.

After five successful years of partnership, Xefco has acquired the shareholding of HeiQ Materials AG in a joint-venture company set-up to bring its metallic, radiant barrier coating for textiles (X

Technical-fabric manufacturer Nonwovenn is investing £1.5 million in its ProTech division, which manufactures fabrics for use in personal protective equipment (PPE).

Beaulieu International Group (BIG) has sold its technical textiles business in Europe, known as Beaulieu Technical Textiles (BTT) to private equity firm RCP.

Supplier of advanced high-performance processing equipment and steel belts, IPCO AB, has acquired manufacturer of web-converting equipment, New Era Converting Machinery Inc.

In 2024, the production of nonwovens in Greater Europe increased in volume by 2.6% (to 2.9764 Mt), and by 2.9% in surface area (to 85.1 billion square metres), compared with 2023, according to the

At its meeting on 1 April 2025, the Supervisory Board of Sandler AG announced that, on 1August 2025, its current Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Philipp Ebbinghaus, will assume the role of Chief Exe

Adlington, UK-based manufacturer of textiles for workwear and protective fabrics, RTS Textiles, is bringing together all off its operations and joint-venture partners to form a unified entity known

Freudenberg Performance Materials has merged its two coated-fabrics businesses, Mehler Texnologies and Heytex, to form a new brand named MehlerHeytex.

US-based manufacturer of threads, American & Efird (A&E), has opened a manufacturing facility just outside the port city of Chattogram, Bangladesh.

The global market for nonwoven filter media was worth US$6.1 billion in 2024, according to a new report by market research company Smithers, of Leatherhead, UK, and Akron, Ohio, USA.

The Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA) is calling on the US government to exclude products that fall under the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA) permanently from tariff

EDANA has raised concerns about the potential for "unintended consequences" for the nonwovens industry with regard to the European Commission (EC)’s potential decision to implement countermeasures

Karl Mayer of Obertshausen, Germany, a manufacturer of multiaxial warp knitting machines and warp knitting machines with weft insertion, says that it welcomed many of its regular customers at J

Bridgwater, UK-based technical-fabric manufacturer Nonwovenn is to invest a further £5 million in its business to support the next phase of its expansion and development.

US manufacturer of basalt fibres, Rock Fiber Inc, has formed a joint venture with Norwegian supplier of composite reinforcements for concrete, ReforceTech, a global leader in composite reinforcemen

Owens Corning is to sell its glass-fibre reinforcements business to the Mumbai, India-based Praana Group for US$755 million.

Producer of flax-fibre reinforcements Bcomp has formed a strategic collaboration with composites manufacturer SFG Composites to mass-produce flax-fibre composites for the automotive industry.

After three years of work and €2 million in investment, Chomarat has started-up a new line for the production of unidirectional (UD) carbon-fibre reinforcements at its headquarters plant in Le Chey

Numerous reports in the German press and knitting trade journals suggest that Karl Mayer is considering the divestment of the flat-knitting machine builder Stoll in 2025.

Rotary screen-printing technology has been installed at the Adlington, UK-based facility of printer, dyer and finisher of military fabrics, Pincroft, which has invested £1.5 million in the project.

Invista is developing two technologies that it says could enable the increased use of post-industrial and post-consumer waste in the manufacture of polyamide (PA) 66.

Manufacturer of fibres and yarns (Repreve) from recycled waste, Unifi, is to close its yarn-manufacturing plant in Madison, North Carolina, USA, with the loss of approximately 250 jobs.

German companies Oerlikon Barmag and Evonik are to work together to develop and commercialise technologies for the chemical recycling of waste polyethylene terephthalate (PET) by 2030.

Leigh Fibers has completed restructuring to integrate the recycling operations (ReVive Fiber) that it acquired through its purchase of Martex Fiber into its existing business. 

An innovation centre dedicated to the development and promotion of dry-powder impregnation processes for adding functionality to textiles is to be opened in Lexington, North Carolina, USA, in Febru

Manufacturer of hydroentangled nonwovens, BCNonwovens, has acquired speciality-nonwovens producer Atex USA Inc from EOS Investment Management Group (EOS IM).

Supplier of coated technical textiles, Mehler Texnologies, is to close down its plant in Fulda in its home nation of Germany.

Milliken & Co, of Spartanburg, South Carloina, USA, has invested in its compatriot, a developer of chitosan-based finishes for textiles, Tidal Vision, of Bellingham, Washington. 

The organisers of ITMA ASIA + CITME Singapore 2025 report they have had to increase the floor size of the show in response to a 30% rise in the number of companies applying to exhibit.

The Aachen, Germany-based developer of a process for coating fibres with metals and plastics during spinning, FibreCoat, has raised nearly €20 million through a Series-B funding round.

The antitrust authorities in Germany, Austria and Poland have approved Freudenberg Performance Materials' purchase of thr

EDANA of Brussels, Belgium, has announced that the FILTREX 2025 conference and tabletop exhibition for filtration professionals will take place on 25-26 March 2025 at the Hilton Waterfront

Ahlstrom has acquired ErtelAlsop, a US manufacturer of high-performance liquid depth filter media serving the pharmaceutical, food and beverage, flavours and fragrances, and chemical industries.

INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry of Cary, North Carolina, USA, and its strategic partner⁽¹⁾ EDANA, the Voice of Nonwovens of Brussels, Belgium, have announced the r

Speciality chemical manufacturer John Hogg Technical Solutions (John Hogg) of Manchester, UK, has acquired Avocet Dye and Chemical Co (Avocet), a manufacturer of textile flame-retardants, dyes and

Honeywell of Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, has agreed to sell its personal protective equipment (PPE) business to Protective Industrial Products (PIP) of Latham, New York, USA, for US$1.325 billi

Technology for the mass-production of adipic acid, a precursor for polyamide (PA) 6.6, from non-edible biomass is to be developed by Japan’s Toray Industries and Thai petrochemicals producer PTT Gl

Autoneum is to acquire a 70% share of a leading Chinese supplier of acoustic and thermal insulation components to the domestic automotive industry, Jiangsu Huanyu Group, following the signing of an

SDL Atlas, a provider of textile testing instruments and consumables based in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA, has acquired Mullen Testers of Chicopee, Massachusetts, USA.

Textile machinery manufacturer Trützschler Group of Mönchengladbach, Germany has sold eighteen TC 30Si carding machines to Ibrahim Fibres, a producer of yarns for woven and knitted fabrics based in

International Paper, a pulp and paper company based in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, has announced a strategic review of its Global Cellulose Fibers (GCF) business as it focuses on sustainable packaging

OCSiAl has opened its first European facility for the production of its Tuball single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) near Belgrade in Serbia.

Kelheim Fibres filed for insolvency at Germany’s Regensburg District Court on 22 October 2024, according to reports from German local news publication Mittelbayerische.

HeiQ, of Zürich, Switzerland, has decided to withdraw from the London Stock Exchange and return to a private-company structure so that it can “focus its resources, streamline its operations and acc