The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) Foundation has launched its implementation hub, which helps best practices of chemical and environmental management and accelerates impact along the value chains of the textile and other industries.

Teijin Frontier Co Ltd, the Teijin Group’s fibre-product converting company, announced today that it will establish a R&D facility for fibres including polyester fibres in Thailand.

Mouvent, a company that is focused on digital print technology, achieved a major milestone with its first ever global tradeshow demonstration of its ground-breaking textile printing machine, the TX801, at ShanghaiTex expo, held from November 27 to 30, 2017.

COTTON USA will show the global home textile industry WHAT’S NEW IN COTTON™, including five new innovative technologies to drive sales growth, at its booth in Hall 8.0 / Stand D 63 at Heimtextil in Frankfurt, Germany, from January 9-12, 2018.

This past 29 November, the Italian training centre for textile machinery opened in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT).

Customers are particularly demanding if the textile has direct contact with skin. Since 1992, OEKO-TEX® has offered textile testing for harmful substances using independent laboratory tests.

Baldwin Technology Company Inc.—a world leader in providing process automation solutions, consumables and services for the print, packaging, textile and corrugated industries—has acquired QuadTech, Inc, from its parent company, Quad/Graphics.

Coats, the world’s leading industrial thread manufacturer, has has acquired Patrick Yarn Mill, a manufacturer of high-performance engineered yarns based in North Carolina.

During a ceremony at the former royal palace in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg economic minister Dr Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut awarded the state’s business medal to Ursula Ida Lapp, the Founder of Lapp Group.