LANXESS India Private Limited, a subsidiary of leading global speciality chemicals company LANXESS, has continued its association with Teach For India, which promotes the need for quality education throughout the country.

The OEKO-TEX® Association has published the next round of findings from “The Key To Confidence: Consumers and Textile Sustainability—Attitudes, Changing Behaviors, and Outlooks” focused on millennials and parents.

Indian Textiles Minister Smriti Irani recently announced a proposal to jointly set up a yarn depot with the Uttar Pradesh government to give a further boost to the textile sector in the State, which garnered proposals worth Rs 7,000 crore in the run-up to the two day investors’ summit that concluded in state capital Lucknow on February 22.

The Raymond Group, under JK Investors (Bombay) Ltd, signed pacts worth Rs 425 crore with the government of Maharashtra. This would be to set up residential complex, commercial amenities, school project and sport complex in Nandgaon Peth, Amravati, the group said in a statement.

Skyscreen Pvt Ltd, a leading screen printing materials supplier in India, is introducing Stahls’ complete heat transfer kit from the USA, for those who want to start its own personalised t-shirt printing business.

SSM (Scharer Schweiter Mettler AG), Switzerland’s leading supplier of precision winding machines in the fields of dyeing, weaving, and sewing thread preparation, is set to show its latest applications at ITM 2018, the 34th international textile machinery exhibition, to be held from April 14 to 17, 2018, in Istanbul, Turkey, in hall 3, booth 301A and 313A.

As a world-leading trade fair for home and contract textiles, Heimtextil will present a fundamentally revised concept from 8-11 January 2019 – with more floor space, all kinds of furnishing inspiration and new synergies for buyers.

Teijin Frontier, the Teijin Group’s fibres and products converting company, announced its development of SOLOTEX® Nanofibre, a polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) nanofibre with a diameter of 700nm that combines excellent gripping power with stretchable comfort for high-performance gloves, sportswear and innerwear.

The Confederation of Indian Textile Industry (CITI) will be organising its 9th Asian Textile Conference (ATEXCON) on March 14, 2018 at Hotel ITC Maratha, Mumbai.