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Textile industry, like any other industry, has been grappling with the problem of energy crisis for a long time. But slowly, this may snowball into a major crisis and at a time when the Government is pinning high hopes on textile industry as a driver of economic growth, such a situation is not desirable.

Wayne Hemingway MBE (WHM): I have always loved print, its vibrancy and eye-catching power. It is a visual art, which is almost impossible to resist as we are visual creatures. Print has made significant advances over the last decade, and the variety of interior applications it is possible to create with digital technology today is just amazing.

Ahead of FESPA 2015, English fashion and interior designer Wayne Hemingway MBE talks to FESPA about the relationship between print and design, and the opportunities that digital technology in the interior environment presents.

Technical textiles is a passion for me, said Anuj Bhagwati, Managing Director of A.T.E. Group once. The Mumbai-based group has been proving that this newly-emerging sector of textile industry is more than a passion to it.

A.T.E. Enterprises covers almost all the aspects of nonwovens. You have different technologies for nonwovens. In spunlace, which is hydro entanglement, entanglement is done through the use of water needles. In needlepunch, mechanical needles are used for making the fabric.

Incorporated in June 2005, Sutlej Textiles Industries was created out of a corporate restructuring exercise in which the Textiles Division of Sutlej Industries Ltd (SIL) and DamanGanga Processors Ltd were demerged. Sutlej Textiles excels in all stages of textiles productions. Its versatile production facilities are vertically integrated ´ from spinning and home textile.

At some point or the other, we have to realise that forums and talks will not fulfill ambitious plans. Somewhere a beginning has to be made to tackle any issue. Upholding Sustainability or cleaning the dirty act of polluting the earth must have a starting point. In this respect, it is worthwhile to note some changes that happened recently in China.