The automotive industry is the third-largest consumer of polymer materials after the packaging and construction industries. By using engineered plastics with recycled content, automotive companies ...

Fig. 1. Overall business activity of glass fiber manufacturers from 2015 to early 2021, based on data from Gardner Intelligence. As the coronavirus pandemic enters its second year, and as the global ...

From January to May this year, the national glass fiber yarn production yielded only 1.18 million tons. The growth rate is only 3% compared to the same period last year. The growth rate was 14.5% ...

Chemicals company Şişecam Group is to invest around 100 million euros to construct a new glass fiber manufacturing plant at the heart of Turkey's wind energy turbine industry in the northwest of the ...

Jushi Egypt’s 120,000 ton per year glass fiber tank kiln drawing production line ignition ceremony was held in the TEDA Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone, Suez, Egypt. Liao Liqiang, Chinese ...

BASF is committed to a sustainable future and has set itself the ambitious goal of reducing its Scope 3.1 emissions by 15% across its entire portfolio by 2030 and achieving net zero by 2050. This is ...

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess is increasingly moving toward the use of recycled raw materials in the production of its thermoplastic compounds and composites. One of the most recent examples is ...

Continuous fiber 3D printing and deposition is gaining momentum. As the number of companies using and advancing it grow, this technology will undoubtedly shape the composites industry. First, it ...

Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.APD has been awarded a contract to supply oxygen and oxy-fuel combustion equipment for the new glass fiber production line at Sejong site, South Korea, by KCC ...

TOLEDO, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) announced today that it has entered into a Strategic Cooperation and Supply Agreement with Chongqing Polycomp International Corp. (CPIC) for ...

Researchers at two Australia universities have collaborated to develop a way to 3-D print a preform that can be drawn into silica glass optical fibers, for new types of telecommunications networks and ...