Browsing: Industry Update

Textile exports are likely to miss the $45 billion target for 2017-18, as the industry reels under the impact of GST roll out and tariff advantages enjoyed by competitors like Bangladesh and Vietnam, according to textile industry body CITI.

Kornit Digital, a market leader in digital textile printing, will showcase its cutting-edge solutions at three major trade shows in Asia Pacific this month. Kornit Digital and its local channel partners will conduct live demonstrations as well as exhibit the latest application samples produced on Kornit direct-to-garment and direct-to-fabric systems.

Specialty chemicals company LANXESS continues its profitable growth path. The company ended fiscal year 2017 with record earnings. LANXESS has also made a good start to the new year.

Freudenberg Far Eastern Spunweb, a Freudenberg Performance Materials and Far Eastern Spunweb company, is planning to build an additional production line at the Tayuan Tao-Yuan site in Taiwan.

ANDRITZ will be presenting innovative nonwovens production solutions and textile finishing technologies for the US market at Techtextil North America 2018 in Atlanta, USA (May 22–24, booth 2847).

KCT-TIFAC CORE in Textile Technology & Machinery has organised a workshop on CAD for apparel, which was held on February 27-28, 2018 at Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore.