Technical textile markets: business update, 1st quarter 2013
This report provides a round-up of recent corporate developments in the global technical textile industry, including acquisitions, divestments and mergers, business news, investments and joint ventures. The report contains insight and analysis of developments in a wide range of companies and other organisations involved in the industry, including: Alexium International, Ampersand Capital Partners, Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry (INDA), Biomedical Structures (BMS), Central Textiles, China Nonwovens and Industrial Textiles Association (CNITA), Clariant, Cotswold Industries, Crailar Technologies, Duro Textiles, DSM Dyneema, DyStar, ICON Protect, Kowa Company, Lineo, Linz Textil, Merida, Modified Polymer Components (MPC), MZ Group, NatureWorks, NI Teijin Airbag Fabric (Nantong), Oerlikon Schlafhorst, PWG Bedrijfsveilige Kleding, Rhodia, SK Capital, Teijin Frontier, Teijin Limited, TenCate Advanced Armour, TenCate Protective Fabrics, Tork, Tr?tzschler Switzerland and the US Air Force.
SUMMARY
ACQUISITIONS, DIVESTMENTS AND MERGERS
Biomedical Structures (BMS) will merge with Modified Polymer Components (MPC)
Clariant has divested its Textile Chemicals, Paper Specialties and Emulsions Businesses to SK Capital
BUSINESS NEWS
Alexium International’s financial position is strengthening thanks to growing revenues from a US Air Force contract and its flame retardant (FR) polyamide treatment
Alexium International has reported that product development activities are on track and that it has appointed a new chief executive officer (CEO)
Alexium’s Reactive Surface Treatment (RST) has been awarded a patent by the Chinese
Patent Office
Crailar Technologies has commissioned its first full-scale facility for manufacturing Crailar
Flax fibre in the USA
Crailar Technologies is seeking to raise its profile with investors following an increase in sales resulting from the inauguration of a new manufacturing facility
DSM Dyneema has opened its new Asia-Pacific Technical Center in Singapore
DyStar will transfer textile chemical production from Hangzhou to its site in Nanjing, China
Lineo will supply flax f ibres to Merida for use in its Scultura SL road racing bicycle
NatureWorks will establish regional headquarters in Bangkok in order to grow its share of the biopolymer market in the Asia-Pacific region
Teijin Frontier has started producing fabrics for airbags in China
TenCate Advanced Armour has opened a sales office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
TenCate Protective Fabrics has won contracts from the IJsselland and North-East Gelderland fire brigades in the Netherlands
Tr?tzschler Switzerland has received its first order
INVESTMENTS
Linz Textil has invested in a second Autocoro 8 rotor spinning machine from Oerlikon
Schlafhorst
Rhodia will increase production of polyamide 6.6 yarn for textile and industrial applications in Brazil
Teijin Limited has begun operations for moulding carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics (CFRTPs) at a pilot plant
JOINT VENTURES
Crailar Technologies has signed a fibre supply agreement with Kowa
Crailar Technologies has entered into an agreement with Cotswold Industries relating to the development of its Crailar Flax Fibre
Inda and CNITA have entered into a strategic alliance
ACQUISITIONS, DIVESTMENTS AND MERGERS
Biomedical Structures (BMS) will merge with Modified Polymer Components (MPC)
Clariant has divested its Textile Chemicals, Paper Specialties and Emulsions Businesses to SK Capital
BUSINESS NEWS
Alexium International’s financial position is strengthening thanks to growing revenues from a US Air Force contract and its flame retardant (FR) polyamide treatment
Alexium International has reported that product development activities are on track and that it has appointed a new chief executive officer (CEO)
Alexium’s Reactive Surface Treatment (RST) has been awarded a patent by the Chinese
Patent Office
Crailar Technologies has commissioned its first full-scale facility for manufacturing Crailar
Flax fibre in the USA
Crailar Technologies is seeking to raise its profile with investors following an increase in sales resulting from the inauguration of a new manufacturing facility
DSM Dyneema has opened its new Asia-Pacific Technical Center in Singapore
DyStar will transfer textile chemical production from Hangzhou to its site in Nanjing, China
Lineo will supply flax f ibres to Merida for use in its Scultura SL road racing bicycle
NatureWorks will establish regional headquarters in Bangkok in order to grow its share of the biopolymer market in the Asia-Pacific region
Teijin Frontier has started producing fabrics for airbags in China
TenCate Advanced Armour has opened a sales office in the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
TenCate Protective Fabrics has won contracts from the IJsselland and North-East Gelderland fire brigades in the Netherlands
Tr?tzschler Switzerland has received its first order
INVESTMENTS
Linz Textil has invested in a second Autocoro 8 rotor spinning machine from Oerlikon
Schlafhorst
Rhodia will increase production of polyamide 6.6 yarn for textile and industrial applications in Brazil
Teijin Limited has begun operations for moulding carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics (CFRTPs) at a pilot plant
JOINT VENTURES
Crailar Technologies has signed a fibre supply agreement with Kowa
Crailar Technologies has entered into an agreement with Cotswold Industries relating to the development of its Crailar Flax Fibre
Inda and CNITA have entered into a strategic alliance
