IFF commissions India's first technical non-woven unit

India’s first technical non-woven unit has been commissioned recently in Indore by Industrial Filters & Fabrics (IFF), which is one of the top producers of filter products. Several senior representatives from different industries took part in the opening ceremony of the manufacturing unit. The installed manufacturing capacity of the factory is 100,000 linear meters of fabric every month.

Technical non-woven felts have been used as filter intermediary – a fabric utilized to filter dust particulates from dusty gases. These are one of the most productive as well as low-priced varieties of dust collectors available and can attain a competence of gathering over 99 percent of the extremely fine particulates released by several industries like fertilizer, chemical, carbon black, power generation, cement, steel and aluminum.

IFF has produced the India’s first home-made non-woven felt, keeping the entire expansion policy into consideration and the rising demands of filter products. The production unit substitutes the requirement to import technical non-woven felts and reinforces the firm’s backward integration chain by manufacturing outstanding products in India.

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Rhodia launches polyamide-based fibre reinforced materials

Rhodia announced the launch of a major innovation in the field of thermoplastic composites. Evolite by Technyl is a range of high performance polyamide-based continuous fiber reinforced materials. Unveiled at the K 2010 trade show, this composite achieves an optimal and unique balance between weight and performance.

Available in recyclable pre-impregnated fabrics or consolidated plates, Evolite can be made of glass, carbon or other fibers. Parts made in Evolite will show excellent strength and toughness, enhanced crash resistance and excellent ageing properties, with end applications including transport seating, car bumper beams and front-end structures, racing bicycle frames or window frames. In addition, material fluidity allows faster production rates compared to thermoset technologies, with a major cost-competitive advantage.

“Evolite is a breakthrough solution with considerable growth ahead of it” commented François Hincker, President of Rhodia’s Engineering Plastics Global Business Unit. “We see it as setting the standard for future generations of composites”.

At K 2010, Rhodia is also presenting a complete offer of materials and technologies to help preserve non-renewable resources and reduce the environmental impact of plastic applications. They include:

• a new generation of unfilled TechnylStar that will allow processors to make major energy savings;
• a certified halogen-free Technyl range for the photovoltaic industry;
• new polyamide powders that will challenge the limits of rapid plastics parts manufacturing.

Rhodia is an international chemical company resolutely committed to sustainable development. As a leader in its businesses, the Group aims to improve its customers’ performance through the pursuit of operational excellence and its ability to innovate. Rhodia is the partner of major players in the automotive, electronics, flavors and fragrances, health, personal and home care markets, consumer goods and industrial markets. The Group employs around 13,600 people worldwide and generated sales of €4.03 billion in 2009. Rhodia is listed on Euronext Paris.

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CIAMI cum 7th Fiberglass Composite Expo kick off

China to nurture and develop seven new strategic industries with favorable policies in the 12th Five-Year Program has listed new materials industry as a key development area, including promoting the development of rare earth functional materials, high performance film materials, special glass, ceramics, semiconductor lighting materials and other new functional materials; actively developing high quality special steel, new alloy materials, engineering plastics and other advanced structural materials; enhancing the development of high-performance and composite materials, such as carbon fiber, aramid fiber and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene fiber, and conducting research on common basic materials, such as nano materials, superconductive materials, intelligent materials, demonstrating a bright prospect of the advanced materials industry.

Riding on the speedy development of the industry, China International Advanced Materials Industry Exhibition 2010 cum the 7th China Fiberglass Composite Materials Expo (also known as “CIAMI 2010 cum the 7th Fiberglass Composite Expo) were held at Shanghai Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center, Shanghai, PR China today (November 8).

Around 120 local and overseas exhibitors from 9 countries / regions, namely Australia, France, Germany, Korea, Japan, the United Kingdom, the USA, China and Hong Kong SAR, join hands to create the first platform of advanced materials for different sectors in China. The three-day show (November 8-10) will display a full range of new materials, explore more applications in downstream areas, speed up the product upgrading, and promote the development in other industries.

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Elmarco & PolyNanoTec sign deal for nanofiber material production

PolyNanoTec (PNT), a leader in the research and development of electrospinning formulations, and Elmarco, the industry´s leading supplier of industrial scale nanofiber production equipment, signed a mutual cooperation agreement on 2nd November 2010. Their goal is to offer effective and complex technological solutions in nanofiber material production to all industrial customers.

Electrospinning is a key technology for nanofiber preparation. This process (technology) is closely watched and developed by academic researchers as well as industrial researchers. The unique patented Nanospider technology (needle-free high voltage, free liquid surface electrospinning process) enabled Elmarco to build industrial scale nanofiber production equipment without nozzles, needles or spinnerets. Nanospider technology allows the production of nanofibers from different polymers.

PNT is currently the only company supplying commercially available formulations specially designed for electrospinning and it closely cooperates with academia, namely University of Marburg (TransMIT-Business Unit), thereby ensuring a strong research background. The Elmarco and PNT partnership is a logical step.

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IIT-D to host conference on technical textiles & nonwovens

Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi is organizing an International Conference on Technical Textiles and Nonwovens from 11-13 November, 2010 at IIT Delhi. Textiles are everywhere in modern society; worn for protection and self expression on the human body, used as decoration and comfort elements in homes, offices, hospitals, hotels or public buildings.

Textiles are also used in a large number of technical applications such as interior components in cars, buses, trains, ships and airplanes, as structural elements for tents, roofs, bridges, as reinforcements for roads, as bags, nets, artificial turf in sports etc. In most of these applications, technical performance and functional characteristics are extremely important.

Technical textiles account for over one-quarter of all textile consumption in weight terms. The growth rate of technical textiles is higher than that of apparel or home textiles and major strides have been made in recent years in the development of raw materials, processing technologies, finishing techniques and evaluation standards for technical textiles.

Nonwovens are no doubt among the most promising textile products of the past 2 decades. They are not only replacing traditional textiles, but are also creating new markets for new products. Nonwovens are most widely used in diverse applications of technical textiles due to their unique characteristics, performance and cost advantage.

With the sustained and rapid economic and social growth in Asia, the development of the nonwovens industry has been pushed forward rapidly in many countries on the Asia-Pacific. Analysts have predicted there will be unlimited prospects for the market of nonwoven materials in many applications over the next decade. China and India have extremely good potential markets for nonwovens equipment, machinery as well as nonwoven products.

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