Month: February 2018

Intimasia 2018 (Kochi) Asia’s exclusive fashion trade show dedicated to lingerie and intimate wear, will be held from March 8 to 10, 2018 at Adlux International Conventional Centre, Kochi. INTIMASIA (KOCHI) debuts in one of the fastest growing sector of the apparel industry in India, the most promising consumer segment, an arena that has recently not only increased in the volume of sales but also in the value.

SSM (Scharer Schweiter Mettler AG), Switzerland’s leading supplier of precision winding machines in the fields of dyeing, weaving, and sewing thread preparation, is set to show its latest applications at ITM 2018, the 34th international textile machinery exhibition, to be held from April 14 to 17, 2018, in Istanbul, Turkey, in hall 3, booth 301A and 313A.

Skyscreen Pvt Ltd, a leading screen printing materials supplier in India, is introducing Stahls’ complete heat transfer kit from the USA, for those who want to start its own personalised t-shirt printing business.

The Raymond Group, under JK Investors (Bombay) Ltd, signed pacts worth Rs 425 crore with the government of Maharashtra. This would be to set up residential complex, commercial amenities, school project and sport complex in Nandgaon Peth, Amravati, the group said in a statement.

Indian Textiles Minister Smriti Irani recently announced a proposal to jointly set up a yarn depot with the Uttar Pradesh government to give a further boost to the textile sector in the State, which garnered proposals worth Rs 7,000 crore in the run-up to the two day investors’ summit that concluded in state capital Lucknow on February 22.

In a recently completed study by JLL India’s largest real estate service firm, retail supply in the next three years (2018 – 2020) is expected to be at 19.4 million square feet (msf). In the same period demand will be approximately 15 msf. The study revealed that 2018 will see the highest supply since 2011.

Mimaki, a leading manufacturer of wide-format inkjet printers and cutting systems, has announced that textile and apparel professionals received its Tiger 1800B production-class textile printer warmly during demonstrations at a series of industry trade shows in 2016 and 2017.