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Airbag clothing protects motorcyclists
May 1st, 2024
Mo’cycle® Airbag Jeans protect a rider’s lower body with airbags around the thighs and tailbone that inflate if a rider separates from the motorcycle with more than 80 pounds of force. Internal pads protect the knees. Images: Mo’cycle Last spring, Airbag Jeans were launched via an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and by last fall, the French […]
Airbags make military equipment deployment faster
October 1st, 2023
The Rapid Rigging De-Rigging Airdrop System (RRDAS) has 10 reusable airbag modules. It is undergoing testing and is expected to greatly reduce the quantity of honeycombed cardboard required for airdrops. This will also make equipment mobilization much faster. Photo: Mark Schauer/U.S. Army In remote regions when time is of the essence, a new airdrop system […]
Toyobo to increase airbag business
January 30th, 2017
Toyobo Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan, is increasing its production of fabrics and yarn for automobile airbags by investing more than $8.5 million in plants and equipment globally through 2020. The company will separate its fabric production plant for airbags from their existing fabric plant in Thailand and establish a manufacturing joint-venture company with a local […]