All is not well on the cotton front! Fall in production and acreage, and wild fluctuations in the prices beginning late last year have dampened the spirit of the industry. On the farm front, ravages of bollworm have added to the woes of the suppliers.

ColorJet India Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of digital textile printing technologies, gave a live demonstration of India’s most preferred direct to fabric printer, the VASTRAJET along with two other printers, the METRO and FABJET GRAND at GTTES, Mumbai in Hall A, Booth No. 2.

Switzerland’s long hot summer of 2017 – the hottest for over a century, with temperatures soaring as high as 34°C throughout May and June – was violently interrupted in the first weekend of July when heavy storms finally broke.

Pratibha Syntex is a vertically integrated sustainability-oriented textile conglomerate, which was incepted in the year 1995 as a spinning unit. Today, the company has state-of-the-art spinning, modern knitting, resource efficient dye house and printing, and world-class garment manufacturing facilities.

Rieter’s drawframes, RSB-D 26 and SB-D 26, offer a number of innovations resulting in lower production costs, better sliver quality and easier operation and maintenance.

Techtextil, the leading international trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens, is taking place parallel to Texprocess.

The LANXESS High Performance Materials business unit is also investing in its global production network for high performance plastics, and is building a further compounding plant at its Krefeld-Uerdingen site.

Ring spinning machines are getting longer. And that’s a trend that is noticeable in some markets, where ringframes run to as many as 2,000 spindles – or about 70 metres (m) in length.

With up to 700 potential filaments per yarn end, the BCF S8 is raising the benchmark considerably compared to the Oerlikon Neumag S+ BCF system (400 filaments) that has dominated the global market to date.