The shifting of polluting textile dyeing and printing mills outside the city limits could be a reality with the state government approving specified shifting zones for the industrial units with the addition of few provisions in the General Development Control Regulation (GDCR).

In addition to the investment in acrylics value chain in Mundra, BASF plans to co-invest as a minority partner in a wind and solar park.

Embee, established in 1956 with a small beginning, always believed in continuous innovation and research for the betterment of today’s and tomorrow’s commitments to the textile industry.

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.