Year: 2015

The International OEKO-TEX® Association has introduced Georg Dieners as the new General Secretary. The trained textile engineer will take over from Dr Jean-Pierre Haug, who, after providing extensive training

In their May report, the USDA has released its first complete set of estimates for an upcoming crop year. The projection for world production in 2015-16 is 111.3 million bales, which represents an 8.0 million bale decrease (-6.7 per cent) relative to the 119.3 million bales harvested in 2014-15.

Thirty seven delegates from all sectors of the global cotton industry have successfully completed the International Cotton Association´s (ICA) annual training programme, Complete Cotton.

More than 1,100 decision-makers of the Iranian textile and carpet industry as well as 36 leading German textile machinery and accessories manufacturers participated in the VDMA textile machinery conference from April 21-22 in Tehran.

Enif Jin, Zhiyong Qiao, Hong Zhu, Zaixing Zhang, and Yongian Li, who co-authored a paper entitled ´Effect of Acrylate Constituent Units on the COD Removal Rates of Acrylate Copolymers for Warp Sizing: Internal Standard´ published in the March-April 2014 issue of the AATCC Journal of Research, have been selected as the writers of the best peer-reviewed paper published in the AATCC Journal of Research in 2014.

SSM Schärer Schweiter Mettler AG has participated at the following exhibitions in spring 2015: Textile Asia, Pakistan; Indo InterTex, Indonesia; and Techtextil, Germany.

Established in 1997 as a JV of Eduard Kústers Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG (EKK) of Germany and Calico Industrial Engineers (Calico) of India, Kústers Calico Machinery Pvt Ltd (KCMPL) manufactures and installs the most affordable and excellent machines to the textile processing industry.