Bharat Bijlee handed over its 10,000th AC drive to its customer Ferromatik Milacron India (FMI) on April 21, 2017, at a celebratory function at its factory in Airoli, Navi Mumbai. The machine was received by Shirish Divgi, Managing Director of FMI.
Month: June 2017
Santoni, a leading Italian manufacturer of a wide range of circular knitting machines, is co-operating with Lenzing Fibres, a producer of Tencel branded fibre, in a new denim project.
Itema, the world’s largest privately held provider of advanced weaving solutions, including best-in-class weaving machines, spare parts and integrated services, finalised the agreements to acquire 61 per cent of shares in Lamiflex, leading supplier of technical composite products, and a minority stake in NoeCha, provider of high-tech, wide-format printing solutions.
“In India particularly, Italian sales last year amounted to Euro 135 million, a 3 per cent drop compared to 2015,†says ACIMIT President Raffaella Carabelli, who interacted via email with Samuel Joseph, Editor of Indian Textile Journal.
Delicately patterned fabrics produced on the RSJ 4/1 machine open up completely new design options. The Indian textile industry is increasingly focusing on synthetic fibres.
Aamir Akhtar, Chief Executive Officer, Arvind Denim, says, “An innovative line of Flip Denims (reversible denims), 360 degrees MUTANTS™ (multidirectional stretch knit denims) and XL MUTANTS™ (wider width knits for better production efficiencies), to name a few, were introduced,†while speaking on their various IP products during an interaction with the ITJ.
Technical textiles market in India has touched Rs 95,000 crore and is growing at 15 per cent per annum. Statistics may appear to be highly encouraging but in reality, the growth is mainly confined to packtextiles. Other segments of technical textiles need to be promoted for the real and strategical growth of technical textiles.