Month: January 2017

Karl Mayer, a leading warp knitting machinery manufacturer has come up with a HKS 4-M El, tricot machine, a flexible machine that makes it ideal for a variety of applications. The HKS 4-M EL is particularly adept at producing stylish, warp-knitted fabrics for the fashion sector. The light and airy fabric was produced on an HKS 4-M EL in a gauge of E 28.

Gujarat, which has long been a hub for premium cotton for textile mills in Tamil Nadu, in the wake of increased adulteration with substances like comber noil and other cotton waste by Gujarat?s ginners, has drastically cut back their cotton procurement.

With industrialisation, surging consumption of textiles in engineered products and rising awareness about the benefits of using textile chemicals, the market in India is projected to cross $2.5 billion by 2021.

A buyer-seller meet for textile industries was organised by local Powerloom Seva Kendra in Burhanpur, a mid-size city in Madhya Pradesh. The meet was inaugurated by Woman and Child Development Minister Archana Chitnis.

Kurlon Enterprises Limited, country’s leading mattress company, is eyeing a major expansion in Chhattisgarh. The company will soon increase its Kurlon Mattress Xpress (KMX) outlet to five from the existing two located in Raipur and Bhilai.

Ethnic wear brand, Soch has held talks with private equity (PE) funds, including L Catterton, Westbridge Capital and CX Partners, for a majority stake sale valuing the company at around $200 million.