B&R is now represented in the OPC Foundation’s Technical Advisory Council (TAC). This move further strengthens B&R’s role in the strategic advancement of the OPC UA standard. Appointment to the TAC is a tribute to B&R’s committed involvement throughout numerous OPC Foundation working groups.

The Turkish nonwovens market covers almost all application fields. Typical applications of needle-punched nonwovens are the production of artificial leather, automotive felts, carpets and carpet backings, insulation materials for thermal and noise insulation,etc.

An ISO 9001:2008 certified company, Unitop Aquacare is a trusted name in the field of industrial evaporation and drying technologies with more than 400 clientele worldwide with a number of repeated orders.

Cultural exchange is particularly important to Andreas Lapp, a successful businessman and Honorary Consul of the Republic of India for Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. This will be the 14th time that he invited around 2,000 guests from business, politics, film and media, tourism, education and gastronomy to the Stuttgart Meets Mumbai wine festival on the grounds of the Taj Lands End hotel in Mumbai on February 2-3, 2018. This year’s event was set to be very special, as it also celebrated 50 years of Mumbai and Stuttgart being twinned.

Taking a big leap forward, industry is going through another paradigm shift, popularly referred as the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” or “Industry 4.0”. The ultimate goal of the fourth revolution is to build a parallel virtual world that will control and run the physical world. Everything that can be digitalised will be digitalised throughout the course of Industry 4.0. The future of the manufacturing industry lies with big data analytics, robots, automations, programmable logic controllers and IoT.

A success story of the compact spinning machine K 42.

Rieter’s customer Nitin Spinners Ltd wanted to serve a niche market as quickly as possible. Optimal cooperation between the customer and Rieter has made this ambitious project possible. Within 100 days, 72,960 compact spindles were installed.

The S3060 electronic rotary dobby, a part of the latest S3000/S3200 series, is renowned for its reliability and adaptability.

Many investors and weavers demonstrated their interest in Stäubli automatic weaving preparation solutions and shedding solutions for frame and Jacquard weaving which they could discover at several places on the fairground. “The high interest in our products does perfectly reflect the ongoing prosper investment activity in the country”, says Fritz Legler, Sales & Marketing manager of the weaving preparation solutions at Stäubli.

Even if the Turkish textile manufacturing market is currently facing a challenging situation in terms of worldwide concurrence, the Turkish weaving industry remains an important manufacturer of high quality shirting fabrics, denim, as well as carpets.

The new YarnMaster ZENIT+with the OffColor feature is an absolute must for spinning mills, which are aiming for constantly high quality in the production of mélange yarns or coloured yarns.

Mélange yarns and colour-effect yarns are a growing trend in the garment industry. In order to have an optimum mélange yarn, the fibres have to be mixed carefully in the right proportions at the beginning of the spinning process. Even small shade variations or colour deviations of the yarns may result in poor quality of the fabric after knitting or weaving.