The HOK registered a declining trend with increase in the level of modernisation, which largely influences the profit margin as well as labour and machine productivity in the spinning mills.

There is no one single treatment technology that can effectively treat the final effluent from the textile industry and a combination of the available methods is necessary in order to achieve the required discharge standards.

Advances in nonwovens have resulted in a new breed of medical textiles and advanced composite materials containing combination of fibres and fabrics have been developed for applications where biocompatibility and strength are required.

• Take-overs, new investments in technical textile sector
• Medical, Nonwovens & Technical Textiles Symposium
• Inaugural INDA NETS Conference to focus on energy
• Anjani signs trend setting nonwovens deal
• Lenzing ties up with Weyerhaeuser to develop sustainable nonwovens
• Saspe line for technical textiles
• Bruckner enhances presence in coating & nonwovens

ITMA Asia + CITME, the first combined textile machinery show in Shanghai, came to a close on July 31, 2008 after five days of business, punctuated with spells of thin crowd, more so often towards the end.

• After RoCoS success, Stahlecker ready with innovations for India
• NSC presents family of Axcess technologies
• Karl Mayer's latest in warp knits & special machines
• Picanol shows expertise in high-tech weaving
• HYDRA, a card for the health sectors
• Arioli's Dryers for delicate fabrics
• XO-Steaming: High on ecology, low on water & energy
• Pins & pin systems from Staedtler+UHL
• Pai Lung's open width system
• Tsudakoma launches nex generation water-jet loom

The 8th India International Textile Machinery Exhibition (INDIA ITME 2008) is to be held from 15th to 22nd November 2008 at the Bangalore International Exhibition Centre (BIEC), located at the 10th Mile, Tumkur Road, Madavara Post, Dasanapura Hobli, Bangalore 562 123 in Karnataka (India).