Browsing: Apparels & Garments

Dr NN Mahapatra of Colorant Ltd has penned a new book titled ´Textiles and Environment´. The book has been written in accordance to the author´s personal experience while he was working in big corporate companies as general manager of the dye house.

The Rs 7000-cr textile to power conglomerate LNJ Bhilwara Group has announced a consolidation of its flagship textiles company RSWM, with merger of Cheslind Textiles Ltd and expansion of its plant at Kharigram unit.

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.

KPR Mill from Coimbatore is planning to add a greenfield manufacturing facility of 36 million garment per annum capacity at an estimated cost of Rs 175 crore.

Swiss-based Santex Group has decided to improve the local sales organisation in India in the segment of technical textiles. As of April, Santex named Jude Britto as Head of Sales (Technical Textiles and Emerging Technologies). He has been with Santex Engineering India PVT Ltd, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Santex Group in Coimbatore for nearly 11 years.

Siemens is expanding its RFID product range, Simatic RF600, with new transponders that have considerably greater memory capacities and a compact mobile read/write device. With a capacity of 4 KB, the new UHF RFID data carriers, RF622T and RF622L, enable large volumes of data to be stored on tagged object as well as facilitating rapid access to them.