Machinery

20th Mar 2020

Shape has been in discussions with suppliers to ensure production remains stable with sufficient contingency stock in the wake of fears rising due to coronavirus outbreak. Shape provides precision composite machined tooling to the motorsport, automotive and aerospace industries as well as 5 axis machining foams and carbon composite materials.

11th Mar 2020

Monforts has been involved in R&D trials aimed at improving the performance of the fishing cage nets employed in fish farming operations at its Advanced Technology Centre (ATC) in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Monforts is a leading textile machinery manufacturer, with a customer-friendly range of services and innovative machine portfolio for technical...

26th Feb 2020

ARRK has purchased two new CNC machines at its Composite Centre in Nuneaton in view of increasing demand for carbon. The machines will help company grow. One of the machines is meant to support an increase in demand from motorsport, telecommunications and aerospace industries and the other will increase the site’s carbon machined components volume.

25th Feb 2020

Mikrosam and its US representative Composite Automation will supply an integrated ATP machine to UD-CCM, for automatic placement of dry, thermoset and thermoplastic tape. This upgrades UD-CCM's capabilities, allowing R and D of primary structures at rate production. Initially, placement of thin ply materials will be evaluated for current projects with...

19th Feb 2020

Mahlo will be displaying product solutions for high-quality nonwovens production at Index 2020 from March 31-April 3, 2020, in Geneva, Switzerland, in booth 47229. Mahlo is one of the leading manufacturer of measuring, control and automation systems for the textile and finishing industry as well as the coating, film, and paper sector from Germany.

17th Feb 2020

Leading textile machinery company from Germany, Truetzschler Nonwovens and Truetzschler card clothing, is set to launch new line concepts and wires for efficiently making sustainable nonwovens for wipes or hygiene textiles at INDEX 2020 expo, in booth 2327. The leading nonwovens event will be held from March 31-April 3, 2020, at Geneva, Switzerland.

6th Feb 2020

International technology Group Andritz has installed a new neXline eXcelle spunlace line at Novita, based in Zielona Gora, Poland. The line is meant to produce spunlace fabrics from 30 to 100 gsm and even down to 25 gsm for ultralight products. Novita now enters the hygiene and medical markets with a total installed capacity of nearly 3,000 kg/h.

6th Feb 2020

Carbon ThreeSixty, the structural composites specialist, has installed an in-house Tailored Fibre Placement (TFP) cell to deliver the next generation of complex composite products three times quicker than traditional methods. The facility also reduces waste by up to 90 per cent and can produce up to 100 metric tonnes of composite preforms per year.

5th Feb 2020

Composites Evolution will unveil a new 50°C, 12 hour cure tooling prepreg - allowing moulders to create tools with exceptional surface finish and high dimensional stability - at JEC World 2020 to be held in Paris in March. The specially developed prepreg has an extended out-life, which means large or complex tools can be manufactured with minimal waste.