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AUTOMOBILE TEXTILES
Lear breaks ground on new seat manufacturing facility
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Lear Corporation, a leading global supplier of automotive seating and electrical systems, has broken ground on a new seat manufacturing facility on the former site of the historic Buick City complex in Flint, Michigan.
Lear’ s Flint seating plant will be the first major automotive supplier manufacturing facility constructed in Flint in more than 30 years. Plans call for the 156,000-squrae foot facility to begin production of seats by April 2018. The world-class facility will employ approximately 600 workers, when it reaches full production. Thirty per cent of the 33-plus acre site will be green space.
Shanghai Shenda and IAC Group form Auria Solutions
Shanghai Shenda and International Automotive Components( IAC) Group have jointly formed Auria Solutions, a new supplier of soft trim and acoustical products for automotive industry. Shenda has a 70 per cent stake in the joint venture and IAC has a 30 per cent interest.
The UK-based Auria will have its regional headquarters in Southfield, US, and Dusseldorf, Germany, and will operate 21 manufacturing facilities and four technical centres in 10 countries along with operational control of three joint ventures across China, South Africa and the US. The company will employ approximately 7,000 people and will supply to all the world’ s global automakers, as well as several regional manufacturers.
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INDUSTRIAL TEXTILES
Porcher Industries acquires Interglas Technologies
Porcher Industries, a leader in technical textiles and thermoplastic composite solutions, has acquired Interglas Technologies’ operations, including
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workforce, assets, infrastructure and brand rights, from the Preiss Daimler Group. This transaction will reinforce Porcher Industries’ position as a leading global manufacturer of technical textiles.
Interglas Technologies has over 50 years’ experience in the manufacturing and innovation of glass, carbon, basalt, aramid and other synthetic fabrics. Headquartered in Germany, with production facilities in Erbach, the company is a key supplier of technical fabrics, both within Germany and worldwide.
S Korea’ s Hyosung expected to be part of trillion won club
South Korea’ s Hyosung is expected to become part of the trillion won club of companies with an operating profit of more than a trillion won for two years in a row. The company, with stakes in textiles, chemicals, industrial materials, construction, trading and IT, joined the club last year with an annual operating profit of 1.016 trillion won.
The company, which till late last year held the largest shares of the global markets for spandex, tyre cords, seat belt yarns and airbag fabrics, posted an operating profit of 232.3 billion won in the first quarter of this year, according to a recent company press release.
MACHINERY
Valmet to supply tissue production line to CPM
Valmet has been chosen to supply a complete tissue production line, including Focus rewinder and an extensive automation package to Crown Paper Mill( CPM) in Abu Dhabi. The new Advantage DCT 200HS line will fulfil the company’ s demand of new capacity of high quality tissue products for the Middle East market. Start-up is planned for the second half of 2018.
The new tissue machine will have a width of 5.6 metres and a design speed of 2,000 metres / minute and will add 65,000 tonnes tissue paper per year to CPM’ s current production of highquality facial, toilet tissue and kitchen towels.
Pegas Nonwovens signs MoU for production line
Pegas Nonwovens has signed a Memorandum of Understanding
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( MoU) with the supplier of production technology Reifenhäuser Reicofil, for the delivery of a semi-commercial production line RF5 Bico FHL R & D 2F for the plant in Znojmo-Prímetice in the Czech Republic. The annual production capacity of the line will depend on the used input raw materials.
The produced products at the production line will be in the range from eight to 15 thousand tonnes.
The final contract for the delivery of the production line is expected to be concluded by the end of 2017. The production line should be put into commercial operation during the third quarter of 2019.
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CONSTRUCTION TEXTILES
UMass Lowell team creates fabrics with sensors
A team of UMass Lowell researchers in partnership with a research and development company has created new, cost-effective textiles laden with sensors and optical fibres that can be used to monitor the structural health and integrity of vital infrastructures, including buildings and skyscrapers, roadways, bridges, tunnels, railway tracks, dams and pipelines.
Professor Pradeep Kurup and associate professor Tzuyang Yu of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and professor Xingwei Wang of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering are collaborating with researchers from Saint-Gobain, a multinational corporation with an research and development centre based in Northborough, to develop fabrics integrated with optical fibres and sensors. These fabrics can be applied to existing structures to monitor strain or detect cracks in their early stages, thereby minimising maintenance costs, environmental impacts and disruptions to the people’ s lives and businesses.
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