Automotive safety systems supplier Autoliv has received Volvo Car’s excellence award for the development of the world’s first pedestrian protection airbag.
German carpet manufacturer Vorwerk Teppichwerke is a supplier of polyamide (PA) 6.
At the recent Aachen-Dresden International Textile Conference 2013, several presentations addressed performance and improvement of automotive textiles.
Singapore Airlines recently launched its next generation of cabin products on the new B777-300ER, and Tapis’ custom Ultraleather is used in the first class cabin...
Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle technology has been applied for the first time beyond polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging as part of the interior fabric of a plug-in hybrid...
After about 20 years of standardisation work, the European harmonised standard EN 45545 Fire Protection on Rail Vehicles was published in March 2013.
The main themes of the recent Innovative Aircraft Seating 2013 Conference held in Hamburg, Germany, organised by IQPC were: aircraft seating comfort, inflight entertainment (IFE)...
Automotive safety systems supplier Takata has commercialised the world’s first D-shape curtain airbag with a hollow beam design.
Under its Generation Global brand, National Aircraft Interiors is now supplying crew seat covers using a new “high wear” fabric.
Takata will settle antitrust charges with US federal prosecutors by paying US$71. 3m for price fixing seatbelts sold to automakers, Reuters reported.