Year: 2014

With the AGM of the Synthetic and Rayon Textile Export Promotion Council getting over all the required formalities and agenda at the Ambassador Hotel in Mumbai recently, the rest of the time was devoted to the most urgent of matters – the ongoing Anti Dumping Duties (ADD)

The Indian Textile Accessories & Machinery Manufacturers Association (ITAMMA) has signed memorandum of understandings (MoUs) with the Textile Association India (TAI), the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) and the Societe Generale de Surveillance (SGS) on 5 September 2014 at MC Ghia Hall, Mumbai.

Sustainability has now become just as important as any other field of business. Airports can no longer keep sustainability off their main agenda and need to adapt to real time sustainable measures.

Indo Texnology´s Spinnova is an online monitoring system for spinning. Each individual spindle, machine and utility power points are monitored continuously for deviations.

The 60th Annual General Meeting of BTRA was held on 25 September 2014. Prem Malik, Chairman, BTRA Governing Council, chaired the meeting.

Acche Din´ for the Indian textile industry seemed to have come true, when the curtains came down after lively presentations and debates addressing an audience of over 400 on the second day of the 8th Asian Textile Conference (Atexcon), organised recently by the Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) at the Westin Hotel in Mumbai.

After the economic slowdown of 2008-09 in which the global textile industry lost much of its steam, there came a whiff of fresh air in the industry last year. But again the uncertainty persisted for some time till the new Government at the Centre gave some hopes a few months back.