Dr. Nandan Khokar installed as Professor

Dr. Nandan Khokar, R&D Manager and Co-founder of Oxeon, was installed as Professor of Textile Technology for Composite Materials at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden, on the 11th of May in a special ceremony.

Internationally recognized for pioneering the Tape Weaving, Oblique Fabric-forming, 3D-Weaving and Noobing processes, Dr. Khokar is regarded an expert in the fields of 2D and 3D fabric-forming  technologies and engineering of corresponding fabrics for composite materials’ application. His groundbreaking innovations during doctoral work at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, and enterprising spirit have so far lead to the establishment of Oxeon (Tape-Weaving) and Biteam (3D-Weaving), with a third one based on Noobing technology in the pipeline.

The current undertakings as Professor includes research activities in the fields of fabric-forming technologies and fabric architectures for composite materials, true smart textiles without electrical/electronics and other textile technologies.

Henrik Blycker, CEO of Oxeon, says: “We are pleased that Dr. Khokar continues to receive acknowledgements for his relevant contributions to the textile and composite materials’ industries. It is truly a joy bringing the Tape Weaving Technology to the world through TeXtreme®. We are looking forward to more innovative developments to come from his continuous work at Oxeon.”

The latest Oxeon development from Dr. Khokar and his team is the groundbreaking +α/-β variants of TeXtreme® Spread Tow Fabrics, introduced through the initial +45/-45 type released in 2011.

The TeXtreme® Spread Tow +α/-β  Fabrics enables continuous-length production of novel fabrics by - interconnecting two sets of Spread Tow Tapes in different angles +α/-β, for example +45/-45, +30/-60, +50/-25 etc. These fabrics are innovative solutions that complement the existing 0/90 version of TeXtreme® to realize easily and quickly an optimized multidirectional reinforcement by direct plying.