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Co-located with Techtextil North America and Texprocess Americas, JEC Americas, the composites show & conferences, will be host to 750 exhibitors and 9,000 attendees encompassing 3,63,000 sq.ft. of the Georgia World Congress Center on May 3-5, 2016.

Fulgar has introduced a new high-performance fibre made up of a biopolymer derived entirely from castor oilseed. Suitable for all textile applications and an ideal solution for the sportswear world, the innovative 100 per cent biological EVO® by Fulgar is set to revolutionise the sector.

Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd is back in textile business after a gap of two decades. The company is in talks with H&M, Peter Van Heusen, Velocity, Raymonds and Arvind to sell denim from its plant in Ethiopia. The company has made an investment of about $50 million in the African country to take advantage from duty-free exports to the US and the European Union.

The Pakistan Finance Minister Ishaq Dar recently successfully struck agreements with textile and service sector tycoons and announced the imposition of 10 per cent regulatory duty on import of cotton yarn from India and grey and processed fabric as well as devising a formula of tax payment for service providers.

The ´World PA6 & PA66 Supply/Demand Report 2015´, referred to briefly as the ´PCI Nylon Yellowbook´ among industry experts, has just been published by market research and consulting firm PCI Nylon (www.pcinylon.com) of Oberursel, Germany.

The researchers from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute and Konkuk University in the Republic of Korea, coated cotton and polyester yarn with a nanoglue called bovine serum albumin (BSA). The yarns were then wrapped in graphene oxide sheets.

Saurer and Reyes Groupe are pleased to announce the sale of some Verdol assets to Saurer. Reyes Groupe has concluded the deal of selling its Verdol parts and service business to the Saurer Business Unit Allma Volkmann. This deal is a win-win solution for the two companies.