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25th Jun 2019

A meeting of people's representatives and senior revenue department officials in Kerala's Fort Kochi recently decided to immediately set up geotextile tube walls at Companyppady, Bazaar and Velankanni North in Chellanam panchayat to stop further erosion of the shores and prevent flooding of homes. Those are stretches in the panchayat worst hit by...

25th Jun 2019

Aviation industry supplier Premium Aerotec is making progress in developing world’s first thermoplastic pressure bulkhead through work by a multidisciplinary research and development team. The aim is to prepare the thermoplastic joining technology of resistance welding for use in serial production. The demonstrator was recently exhibited in Paris Air...

25th Jun 2019

Medline’s Micro-Kill Bleach Germicidal Bleach Wipes have become the first infection control product to be cleared by EPA to kill Candida auris (C. auris), a multidrug resistant fungus, found in hospitals. The announcement solidifies Micro-Kill Bleach Germicidal Bleach Wipes’ place in Medline’s industry-leading portfolio of infection prevention products.

24th Jun 2019

ASTM International’s committee on geosynthetics presented its annual award – the Award of Merit – to Kent P von Maubeuge, director of corporate identity and corporate communication & senior product manager with Naue GmbH & Co KG. The award which includes the title of fellow, is ASTM’s highest recognition for individual contributions to developing...

24th Jun 2019

Exel Composites has decided to expand its operations in Kapfenberg, Austria, by investing in a new manufacturing facility. Special profiles like the electrical, mechanical, railway and paper machine industries are currently manufactured in the Kapfenberg facility. The construction of the new facility is expected to be completed in second half of 2020.

24th Jun 2019

Foster Corporation, a leader in polymer material solutions for medical and pharmaceutical markets, has broken ground on a new state-of-the-art 5,182 sq m manufacturing facility that is adjacent to its headquarters in Putnam, CT, US. The new expansion comes only a few years after Foster opened a new pharmaceutical building for its ‘Delivery Science’...

24th Jun 2019

Automotive Interiors (YFAI) and Prisma Renewable Composites have entered into an agreement giving YFAI exclusive use of Prisma’s lignin-based material – Biolan – in the development of automotive interiors. Biolan is a sustainable alternative to Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic, which is used broadly in the automotive industry.

22nd Jun 2019

Stratasys, a global leader in additive manufacturing or 3D printing technology, is deepening its partnership with Boom Supersonic – the Colorado-based company building history’s fastest supersonic airliner. In signing a seven-year agreement extension, the companies are further accelerating adoption of additive manufacturing for 3D-printed flight...

22nd Jun 2019

Interface Polymers has won one of the AkzoNobel ‘Paint the Future’ Awards given to innovative startups, in the ‘Enhanced Functionality’ category. Interface was shortlisted from a total of 160 submissions received by AkzoNobel in response to its initiative launched at beginning of the year to find solutions to five real-world paint and coating...