Archive: May 2020

Automotive upholstery materials supplier Alcantara has reopened its Nera Montoro production and research and development facilities north of Rome, Italy.

The worldwide air travel ban as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly reduced the number of passenger flights and threatened to produce...

Composites producer Hexcel and Woodward, a manufacturer of control systems and components for aircraft engines, have terminated their merger agreement, previously announced in January, under...

Carbon Fiber Recycling plans to recycle 2,000 tonnes of carbon fibre waste a year at its 3,250 m2 facility in Tazewell, Tennessee, USA.

In February, AutoTrader, the UK’s largest digital automotive marketplace, released a report looking at what a new car might look like in 10, 20 and...

The UK-based Nonwovens Innovation & Research Institute has developed a new particle injection technology for nonwovens used in cabin filtration.

Up to 60% of Cambodia’s clothing manufacturing facilities could be forced to suspend operations by the end of April – affecting an estimated 300,000 workers...

Indonesian textile factories are making changes to their production lines by making protective gear for medical personnel to support the country’s battle against the coronavirus...

More textile, clothing and footwear manufacturers and retailers in Malaysia are likely to close owing to plummeting global demand as hundreds of millions of people...

The EU plans to provide €5m (US$5. 4m) in cash to support clothing workers in Myanmar who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic.

More than 150 Burmese migrants who were illegally charged excessive recruitment fees to secure jobs at a Thai clothing factory have won a rare compensation...

Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has launched an investigation that may result in anti-dumping duties on polyester filament yarn (PFY) originating from China, India,...

Santa Ukraina, a manufacturer of women’s dresses, blouses and skirts for European retail brands, has rapidly transformed its output to help solve the shortage of...

Polish fashion retailer LPP has cut pay for its management board members to a symbolic PLN1 (US$0.

Czech company Nanospace, which produces bed linen using nano-membranes to protect allergic sleepers from mites, has started making 10,000 nano-membrane face masks a day for...

Antopol Cotton Spinning Factory, based in Drogichin District, Belarus, has established a co-operation with Russian automaker AvtoVAZ.