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AUTEFA presentations at ITMA Asia will be based on topics like higher productivity, industry 4.0 compatible solutions, and sustainability. The latest machines from other business units will be featured later.

According to a report, the workers in Tamil Nadu are trapped in forced labour conditions in the spinning mills that produce fabrics and yarn for international markets like Europe and the USA.

The flagship company of the Aditya Birla Group, Grasim Industries, collaborated with Taiwanese nonwoven manufacturing firm Nanliu Enterprise to donate 50,000 masks in Nagda, Madhya Pradesh.

Mexico has accused popular clothing brands Zara, Patowl, and Anthropologic of using Mexican indigenous textile patterns and other elements in their collection without permission from the country’s ministry of culture.

Microfibres are shedded out of garments during washing of textiles. They enter aquatic food chain and ultimately impact human life. Understanding the pattern of microfibre release and eliminating the resultant contamination of water is a major challenge, says Dr Ashok Athalye and Sharan Shetty.