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Clearlake Capital Group (Clearlake) has acquired Sage Automotive Interiors (Sage), the second largest automotive textile supplier in the world.
Konica Minolta Inc today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Verga IT Srl, the Italian-based distributor of its Nassenger series of digital textile printers. Through the acquisition, Konica Minolta has established Konica Minolta IJ Textile Europe Srl, with headquarters in Bregnano, Como, Italy, and with Akiyoshi Ohno as its president.
Viscose speciality fibre manufacturer Kelheim Fibres has reached the final of the ITMA Future Materials Awards in two categories. With its new speciality fibre Bramante, the company applied for the award in the category “Best innovation - Medical textiles”.
The National Cotton Council (NCC) has scheduled 25 educational meetings across the Cotton Belt to provide its members with in-depth information regarding insurance options for cotton under The Agricultural Act of 2014. The meetings will be held between November 10 and December 10.
News8 Oct 2014SGL Group is exhibiting its newly developed tooling prepregs (pre-impregnated textile semi-finished products) at Composites Europe (October 7-9) in Germany. These prepregs are shaped and cured to make carbon fibre-reinforced plastic (CFRP) moulds, which are then used to produce fibre-composite components.
Huntsman Textile Effects has introduced an innovative fluorescent whitening agent for brilliant white shades on cellulosic fibres. It says the new UVITEX BHA LIQ high-affinity stilbene whitener has unequalled acid stability and acid fastness, making it a unique complement to most finishing treatments, with no risk of greening-off and superior protection against phenolic yellowing during storage and shipment.
