Enabled by industry innovations, including REFIBRA technology, Eco Soft technology, Eco filament technology and Micro technology, textiles produced under the TENCEL brand offer premium standards of sustainability and natural comfort to meet evolving consumer demand.

Stäubli, a renowned global provider of weaving solutions, is set to show its current range of machinery at IGATEX 2018 expo, in Pakistan, which will be held from April 26 to 29, 2018. The Swiss company will be seen at 11th international exhibition and conference for garment and textile industry to be held at the Lahore expo centre.

The Dinh Vu Polyester fibre plant (PVTex) in Vietnam has resumed operations of three production lines and is expected to produce 189 tonnes of yarn in a month’s span. The plant which comes under the ministry of industry and trade is being revived as the government has planned to deal with the problems of various such loss-making enterprises.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the Vietnam Chemicals Agency, ministry of industry and trade recently held the inception workshop of a project called the ‘Application of Green Chemistry in Vietnam to support green growth and reduction in the use and release of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and hazardous chemicals’.

In a bid to transform Gujarat from a fabric manufacturing hub to apparel manufacturing hub, textile players are organising a three-day expo ‘Farm to Fashion’ from May 4 in Ahmedabad.

ITM 2018, the seventh edition, held at Istanbul in Turkey witnessed over 50,000 visitors’ footfalls, bringing smiles on the faces of around 1,500 exhibitors, covering technologies in the entire range of textile machinery and accessories and also yarn producers.

Held every four years since 1951, ITMA has reinforced its reputation as the world’s leading textile and garment technology exhibition. Exhibition space for its 18th showcase to be held in Barcelona has been fully booked by the application deadline of 6 April 2018.

Kusters Calico Machinery Pvt Ltd (KCM), a producer and exporter of open width wet textile processing machines for both woven and knitted fabrics, inaugurated its upgraded manufacturing facility on April 11, 2018.

Liva, the new age fabric brand from the Aditya Birla Group, is back with its unique campaign, a life size mannequin of the brand ambassador Kangana Ranaut dropped down across malls in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune.