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.
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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.
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.
As a world-leading trade fair for home and contract textiles, Heimtextil will present a fundamentally revised concept from 8-11 January 2019 – with more floor space, all kinds of furnishing inspiration and new synergies for buyers.
Teijin Frontier, the Teijin Group’s fibres and products converting company, announced its development of SOLOTEX® Nanofibre, a polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) nanofibre with a diameter of 700nm that combines excellent gripping power with stretchable comfort for high-performance gloves, sportswear and innerwear.
The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) will be organising its 9th Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON) on March 14, 2018 at Hotel ITC Maratha, Mumbai.
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.