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Polyester: The new King of Fibres
When did you last see an athlete, a tennis player, a football or a cricket player changing the jersey in the midfield? You may not even remember now though it was a very common scene until the 90s. They keep on playing for hours comfortably now.

This record, unmatched in the sector, is another milestone in Schlafhorst?s successful company history and shows how much trust the textile industry has in its technological leadership.

The 2.5-millionth Autoconer winding unit was put into operation in 2017. For over half a century, the German textile machinery manufacturer has been determining the technical and technological progress in package winding with the Autoconer.

Technical textiles market in India has touched Rs 95,000 crore and is growing at 15 per cent per annum. Statistics may appear to be highly encouraging but in reality, the growth is mainly confined to packtextiles. Other segments of technical textiles need to be promoted for the real and strategical growth of technical textiles.

Aamir Akhtar, Chief Executive Officer, Arvind Denim, says, “An innovative line of Flip Denims (reversible denims), 360 degrees MUTANTS™ (multidirectional stretch knit denims) and XL MUTANTS™ (wider width knits for better production efficiencies), to name a few, were introduced,” while speaking on their various IP products during an interaction with the ITJ.

Unitop Aquacare is into project engineering and turnkey execution of chemical and other projects. The company is an off-shoot of Elite Engineers, who have been operating in this field since 1974. The Group enjoys the facilities of a modern engineering office having manufacturing at Thane and Surat SEZ

“My recent visit to Cairo to visit a textile exhibition, Egy Stitch Tex has given me some eye-openers & changed my perspective of Egypt’s textile industry. First and foremost solid ‘mind block’ was that Egyptians only process cotton whereas I found that synthetic blended materiala are also having bigger pie than cotton-based textiles in Egypt”, says Avinash Mayekar, MD of Suvin Advisors.